#lore and narratives

[michelsens]

NEXT GEN AMERICAN RUNDOWN!!!

@wiz-talks-tennis hope u like this!

Alex Michelsen (20 years)- Alex is very tall, 6’5, and his serve is good but maybe not as good as it should be for his height. His forehand breaks down sometimes. But he makes up for it with an incredible backhand. Like, literally world class. (He’s actually a natural left hander, but he plays right!) His movement is pretty good for a big dude, and people have rather high hopes for him.

When he was 18 he made the final of a 250 tournament, and lost. He got to that same final again last year, and lost. He made another 250 final last year, and lost. In addition to a few semis. He’s garnered a bit of a reputation for losing right when he has a chance to win a title. On the other hand, he already has a ton of upset wins under his belt, including: breadsticking Hurkacs, a top 10 win over De Minaur, and 2 wins over Tsitsipas.

I’d love to see him finally grab a title this year. I think his game on grass specifically is impeccable, and I think that it naturally should translate to a trophy. I also think (and he’s openly said he’s working on this) his serve needs to improve. He’s very tall, he should be hitting way more aces and unreturned serves.

Learner Tien (19 years)- Learner, on the other hand, is very short, about 5’10, and, not shockingly, doesn’t have an awesome serve. But his skill in rallies is INSANE. His ground strokes, particularly his forehand, are clean, his net play is very good, and he’ll throw in beautiful drop shots. My personal favorite thing about his game is his lobbing skills. You just don’t see it too often.

This kid is ridiculously good. He won the USTA 18’s 2 years in a row (yes, once when he was 17), only narrowly lost the U.S. Open Junior final to Fonseca in 2023, and he went on a Challenger tour 28 match win streak. Lemme repeat that. 28 matches. Insane. He was runner up at last year’s Next Gen Finals, again losing to Fonsi, and what most people know him for was his CRAZY upset of Medvedev in the AO second round. In a five set, nearly 5 hour match, he came out the victor.

I honestly just love Learner so anything he does would feel like a win to me haha. But, seriously, I cannot wait to see him play on clay. I think his game would carry over so well to that surface. Not something you say about Americans too often. I’m also excited to see what damage he can do at home in Indian Wells!

Nishesh Basavareddy (19 years)- Nishesh has a rather complete game for a teenager. His serve is great, and he doesn’t have any glaringly obvious issues in his game. I can’t lie, Nishesh is the player I’ve watched the least of on this list, but he’s still a fun watch. Much like Learner, his breakout was definitely at AO.

In Melbourne, he took a set off of Novak Djokovic. This happened, by the way, maybe two months after he officially turned professional and stopped playing for Stanford University. By the way, if you need any perspective on just how young these guys are, Rajeev Ram, a successful doubles player on tour, is friends with Nishesh…’s father. Yeah, his DAD. Also, I should probably mention that all three of the guys I’ve listed so far are friends! They’re all from Southern California, and have known each other since they were young. Nishesh is sort of the third wheel to Michtien since those two are like best friends, but they are all very close.

I’d like for Nishesh to actually win an upset match. He obviously was incredible already to even win a set, but I think to actually go that step further and win would put him on more people’s radar, which is great because he’s a cutie and his game is so good! And I hope he wears necklaces. Because he’s by far the swaggiest of the Cali Trio lol.

Here are my favorite pics of them just for the sillies :)

I love this one. Alex looks so annoyed. (I believe was playing Jannik here.)

Look at him. The emotion. Learner 🫶🫶🫶

Baby Nishesh’s infamous swag photo. How are you four and you have better drip than me?

Here are a bunch of photos from the Next Gen ATP finals that I love 🩷🩷🩷

[myloveonherknees]

@/mothercain. twitter, 14 mar 2022.

[lazylittledragon]

relocating

(psst this is not on webtoon but it has its own ig now)

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

A phone call between brothers (takes place AFTER this incident and Fiddleford's phone call)

Sorry if this is OOC!

[agentravensong]

thinking about how the extra area added on to a pacifist run of undertale, the true lab, is about alphys's past mistakes. how it ends with the story reaffirming that, despite the pain she's caused, the thing that matters is that she has now made the choice to do the right thing. she's still worthy of her friends' love.

thinking about how undertale doesn't expect the player to get a pacifist ending for the first time. how it's more likely than not that the player will kill toriel the first time they battle her, how lots of players don't initially figure out how to end undyne's fight without killing her, etc. what it expects — not even expects, really, but hopes — is that the player, if they care enough, will use their canonically acknowledged power over time to make up for those mistakes.

no matter how many neutral runs a player has done before committing to the pacifist run, the thing that matters to the characters, to the story, is that you've chosen, now, to do the right thing.

compared to alphys, the player honestly gets off lightly, in that you're the only one (other than flowey) who really remembers any harm you might have caused. and any direct guilting the game could have done about it is long past at this point. instead, as undertale often does, it makes its point via parallels: alphys caused harm, and she knows it. she has committed to being better. in doing so, she has unlocked for herself a better ending to her story. and she deserves it. she's forgiven.

those structural narrative parallels are all over undertale, if you know where to look. and that's one of the things that makes it so fuckin' good.

[natp20]

i don't know what it is about the fantasy high setting that drives me completely insane. the mall has an ice cream parlour owned by a djinn and a strudel place with direct supply from the strudel dimension. your gnome parents modified the lawnmower to have fun with their new "friends." death means nothing if you've got your spells prepared. generational curses that make your life miserable recognize that you're not the stepdad, you're the dad that stepped up. we wanted something else from our god, so we made her into something else. your wizard principal is on a time travel roadtrip with his half-phoenix daughter and spent an obscene amount of money on a jet ski. there's a strudel dimension.

[zombolouge]

The thing is, it's not about the Therapy Speak. It's not that everyone who disliked DAV hates healthy communication as a dynamic in fiction. It's not even about only being allowed to be a good guy, really, because most of us did do that anyways (though the option not being there is a loss I grieve even if I never chose it myself, but that's another rant for another day).

It's that DAV does all that stuff at the expense of being believable. At the expense of characters being permitted to have personalities. At the expense of emotions behaving the way emotions actually work for people. At the expense of letting the plot build tension through the stakes we're forced to grapple with.

Half the fics out there take the conflicts between the characters in the previous games and resolve them. I do it myself ALL THE TIME because I like to find a path to resolution through just about any conflict, that's what fascinates me about telling these stories. But the higher the stakes, the harder a conflict is to resolve. You CAN resolve any conflict, you CAN communicate healthily through any emotion, but you can't skip the time it takes to process it all to even be able to communicate it. As someone whose got CPTSD and recovered from many Traumas, I can tell you that the TIME it takes to work through it is not something you can fast track, and the ups and downs of your emotions on that journey can't be skipped. It doesn't matter if you know exactly how to do it, exactly how it's going to feel, or exactly what the end state will be, you CAN'T speedrun it.

DAV has stakes that are astronomical, but nobody treats them that way. Nobody experiences denial - a common psychological reaction to being presented with information that shatters your worldview. Nobody expresses any distrust in the establishments handing out this information - something common among cultures that have at times been at war, even if those wars are "resolved" in the present. Nobody really ever breaks down - something that any person is capable of under extreme circumstances, especially when facing multiple crises of faith that challenge everything they thought they knew about themselves. Nobody blows their lid because they've been repressing the hell out of everything. Nobody grieves for southern Thedas, the entire thing dying off screen and giving you, the player, NO way to engage with it in any way.

Not to mention there are barely any inter-party conflicts, when there should be a lot more. Why is everyone (except Spite) fine with it if Emmrich sacrifices Manfred to become a lich? Why is everyone fine with Illario potentially being set free if he was working with the venatori and Elgar'nan, two sources that have actively attacked everyone in the party? Why doesn't Neve resent Lucanis if Treviso is picked? Why doesn't Harding get pissed off at Nevarra for having a secret society of liches that never helped during the Inquisition's war against the breach and corypheus? Why doesn't Harding feel ANYTHING about Ferelden and the rest of the south? Shouldn't Harding resent the fact that she's stuck in the north while her home dies?

All of these conflicts ARE resolvable, but not easily. And it's not believable that they're never brought up. It's not believable that these characters skip through everything that happens with like, barely a frowny face most of the time. In DAO, Alistair leaves if you don't treat his conflicts with respect. In DA2, your party members try to kill each other if you don't pay attention to their conflicts/emotional needs. In DAI, people can leave or betray you, Cassandra throws a chair at Varric and tries to body him out a window. ALL of these can be resolved but it takes effort, and the characters get to SHOW that they're bothered by them and struggling the way a person would when faced with those emotions.

The problem isn't the therapy speak, or that everyone is loyal and won't leave, or that they aren't mean to each other enough. It's that it's toxic positivity. It's toxic as fuck to imply that anger or grief should be smiled over or else you're giving up, and it's damaging to people to avoid engaging with their own negative emotional responses to extremely negative stimuli. It's pasting optimism over very real, very weighty issues, sweeping it all under the rug, and you keep waiting for the lid to blow off the pressure cooker that creates, but it never does. It never becomes anything that emulates real emotions, which is why the whole damn thing feels hollow. Everything's dying and nobody cares, not even about themselves, and that's NOT healthy communication.

It's bullshit, half-assed storytelling that didn't tell us the actual story, just the vague idea of what it could have been.

[elodieunderglass]

I’m still processing how it happened and wondering what it all means, but today a big pink hamfaced English guy tried to fight Dr Glass in a parking lot (!) and a completely unrelated, amazingly tall woman appeared (!!) and charged the other guy in defense of Dr Glass (!!!) shouting at him so effectively that he got in his car and drove off.

Dr Glass doesn’t look like anything in particular or even do that much, he is so ORDINARY. He just emits some kind of magnetic field that causes Events, and yet the magnetic field also creates feedback that insulates him from the Events. Doesn’t even have to do his own fight scenes!! just magnetically attracts a TALL BRAVE WOMAN to destroy the entire fighting premise. No one can prepare for this. I feel like I’m the only person who notices it

[fangsandfeels]

Playing Veilguard and making it everyone's problem

I am going to rant, and I will rant a lot, and there will be spoilers, so if you're not afraid of them and the game criticism, buckle up.

Elves and their gods

I am absolutely fucking livid about how Veilguard handles the Dalish and elves in general. The events of Trespasser made it clear that the elves started flocking over to Solas, including the elves working for the Inquisition:

After the events at the Winter Palace, elves left the Inquisition under mysterious circumstances, as did elven servants across Thedas. None could say where they went, but those who believed the Inquisitor's story about Fen'Harel wondered just how large the Dread Wolf's forces were... and what the ancient elven rebel had planned.

Solas had multiple spies working for him during Trespasser, and If I remember correctly, there was even a note, left by one of the elves - they were anticipating the great change and the return of the elven glory. Anyways, the established fact is that: elves learned that the stories about their gods were true and one of them now was going to restore the world as it used to be. At least, this is how they interpreted it (maybe, this is the version Solas didn't debunk) and so they started following him.

You might think, the Inquisitor and their allies are going to have a huge problem with breaking it to elves that their chosen leader isn't going to make things better and that their gods don't love them. Especially, if the Inquisitor is a human or anyone who isn't an elf. You'd imagine any attempts will end in failure because of course elves aren't going to listen to outsiders trying to explain their own culture and gods to them. You'd imagine that their trauma caused by centuries of oppression and discrimination will make it impossible for the Inquisitor and anyone else to make them see the truth.

You'd assume anyone who tries to find and stop Solas will be sabotaged every step of the way, feeling themselves horrible for having to clash with people desperate for a chance of a life without injustice - even if it means burning the rest of the world down.

You'd imagine that they will only change their mind if/when they see the harm done by Solas' actions and get to witness their gods true intentions by themselves - which would lead to a massive crisis of faith and schisms happening between elven tribes and groups.

You'd imagine will get all this incredible drama in the Veilguard, with elves initially resisting the group's attempts to stop Solas, then trying to pull themselves together after the revelation. You'd assume there will be zealous groups doubting Solas (because the Dreadwolf is a liar and a deceiver) and intending to use him to actually free the elven gods. You'd think this is how actually some of them get out.

But, NOPE. Not only Solas ends up working alone, with none of his followers throwing themselves at Rook and the party to buy him time, but also all elves now hate Solas because...Varric said so?

You meet a group of Veil Jumpers (elves devoted to exploring their ancient culture and history, learning more about their gods and reclaiming their heritage) and their leader instantly calls Solas an asshole. Based on WHAT?

I get it, Varric had met them before and told them that Solas was Fen'Harel...

(needless to say if you expect players to find and read other media in order to make sense of the events in the game, you are doing something wrong)

...but why were they so fucking calm about it, instantly eating up the "yep, he's bad" version? Even if the Dread Wolf is vilified in the Dalish mythology, wouldn't they be curious about what that means? Wouldn't they have gotten tempted or excited by the implication that other gods exist too? They weren't told the full story - why the fuck did they instantly accept the "Solas is an asshole" narrative? Especially when Solas comes with a promise of a world for the elves like it was meant to be?

WHY?

The Veilguard has no response for that. I guess, Dalish never cared about their history and traditions, and city elves were dandy about Alienages and oppression, so they easily believed some randos over a literal god promising a new, better world.

I don't even play Dalish, but I love their plotline and arcs - and I was bracing myself for some downright painful choices and conflicts during the next Dragon Age. But it felt like the writers couldn't be bothered with developing such a nuanced narrative, so they just waved it all down with "Nah, elves are chill now and they never really cared about their gods in the first place".

[fantastic-nonsense]

just once I would like a man's critique of "why Wonder Woman doesn't sell" to come from someone who has actually read Wonder Woman comics and has the capability to actually identify the correct problems

[michelsens]

Joalex Ship Manifesto

This took multiple days of work. Much love.

Alex Michelsen and Joao Fonseca took two parallel yet totally different routes to the pros. Both of them were committed to universities- Alex to Georgia, and Joao to Virginia. Neither of them went, of course.

Alex, because, on a whim, with no family, coaches, friends, or team, he played Newport. And, somehow, some way, he got to the final. He lost, but he was 18, and almost didn’t play there. No one expected him to get this far. He, after some discussion with his family, chose to go pro.

Joao, because, after winning the U.S. Open Juniors, he became a hitting partner at the ATP finals. At a practice session, Jannik Sinner, ranked 4, who may or may not soon go on a wild tear and become a superstar, told him he had to be on tour, that he was too good for college.

Joao was destined for greatness, under bright lights, on a big stage. Alex just kind of ended up there. Look at how they talk about themselves in the Journey to Jeddah video series.

“When I was like, 15, 16, my coach said that I really have potential, but I think when I really realized that I was good was when I won the U.S. Open Under 18’s last year.” -Joao Fonseca

“I was never like a Carlos, or a Holger, who everybody knew was good. I was- I was good but I wasn’t great.” -Alex Michelsen

February, 2024 is when it really begins, though. Ranked 74 in the world, aged 19, Alex Michelsen upsets no. 9 Alex De Minaur in the round of 16 in Los Cabos, for his first career top 10 win.

And no one gives a shit, because literally the day before, Joao Fonseca upset Arthur Fils, in his first ever ATP main draw match, at home in Rio. It’s infinitely more impressive, for a multitude of reasons. He’s younger, he’s marketable, he’s collected. He’s everything Alex is not.

They both lose in the quarterfinals. Only one of the two accomplishments is moved on from.

Oh, Madrid ‘24! Sweet, cursed, ATP Madrid ‘24. This whole tournament was absolutely batshit bonkers wild, (read about it here in this lovely write up by maya fritzes) but amidst the chaos, a relatively low stakes first round match occurred.

Can you guess the players in it?

Alex, despite the difference in ranking (at this point he was 172 places higher than Joao), was clearly not the favorite here. He hates losing, but during clay season, he got used to it really fast. He won a single match in the first month. Joao nearly won a challenger.

After a fast start, Alex loses his serve once, but still takes the first set. He screams like he just won a Grand Slam. It’s not too difficult to guess what was going through his head. Perhaps this was finally a chance to get a win, and at a big tournament, too.

It slips away in a second. He’s broken. And broken. He loses set 2 with an embarrassing 6-0 scoreline. And he smiles and laughs. At himself? At his opponent? At the ridiculousness of it all? Because it’s better than crying? Who knows.

He gets on the board in the third, but it’s too late. Having won the first set, he loses.

Joao Fonseca gets the first Masters 1000 match win of his young career, defeating Alex Michelsen 4-6 6-0 6-2.

Grass season is equally disappointing for the American, losing first round in a challenger, and blowing a match at Wimbledon. But now, he is back at Newport. Newport where it all began, Newport where the pressure is on, Newport that is in its last year as an ATP tournament.

He has no trouble getting to the final again. He bagels Reilly Opelka on the way. He has championship point.

He loses. He had championship point, and he loses, and he doesn’t even get another chance.

The next week, Joao Fonseca wins his first Challenger title in Lexington. He doesn’t drop even a single set on the way.

Side note: I don’t know how this fits into the narrative, but Joao defeated Li Tu in the final there. Tu was Alex’s first round opponent in the Chicago 2023 challenger (just over a year earlier) where he won his first and as yet only title. I just thought this was interesting.

Two weeks later, Alex gets to the final in Winston Salem. He loses. Badly. 0-6 3-6 to Lorenzo Sonego. He cracks top 50 and no one cares. The American tennis media, having hailed him as the future of US tennis mere weeks ago, calls him washed and overhyped and lucky to have even gotten where he did.

Meanwhile, in New York City, Joao Fonseca has lost to Eliot Spizzirri in the third round of U.S. Open qualifying, in 3 close sets, the first going to 10-8 in the breaker.

Eliot Spizzirri was Alex Michelsen’s first round opponent in the 2024 U.S. Open.

We as a society were TWO POINTS away from a Joalex grand slam match!!! ALREADY!!! I hate you Eliot Spizzirri I hate you!!!

Another side note: It wouldn’t have mattered, because Sinner was waiting in Round 2. EXCEPT IT MIGHT HAVE??? We saw what Joao was capable of in Melbourne. We could’ve had Taylor Fritz U.S. Open champion!!!

…That’s both unlikely and off topic, let’s go back to the task at hand.

Time jump. It’s December. The week before Next Gen Finals. Alex is in an interview on a podcast, and he’s asked about the other finalists. Everyone (besides Learner but that’s a whole other thing) gets about 1/2-2 sentences. This is what he has to say about Joao:

“Fonseca absolutely waxed me in Madrid, so… I know- I know he can play. I mean, he’s gonna be- he’s gonna be sick. He reminds me of like a… like a mini-Sinner. The way he hits the ball, it’s kind of the same, I’ve played them both, so. The way they hit the ball… You don’t- you don’t come by that very often.”

I think that speaks for itself.

(Fun fact: that was from memory… I’m a little obsessed with them…)

In Jeddah, Alex flips his history, and Joao begins his, both going unbeaten in the group stage. They expect this from Alex, it’s unfathomable for Joao.

In the semifinals, Alex loses in 5 sets to Learner Tien. In the final, Joao beats Learner in 4.

ANOTHER side note: Learner is kind of inextricably tied to this story. See also, Learner losing to Joao in the U.S. Open Juniors final in 2023. And like, everything about Alex and Learner. But if I were to explain all that (which I SO should at some point) I’d have to consult Jade, the eldest member of the michtien council.

All over again, Alex is overrated and underperforming. And Joao is the future.

At some point (I need to know when, it’s killing me that I don’t know when) during the week in Jeddah, Joao and Alex (and Jakub Mensik for like half a second) get to chat with Rafael Nadal. Again, I’m gonna let this speak for itself. I giffed this. Here, here, and here.

Among the matches of interest in the AO first round are [11] Tsitsipas vs Michelsen, and [Q] Fonseca vs [9] Rublev. They both win their matches. Tien beats Medvedev. Mensik beats Ruud.

“Next Gen is thriving!” Said everyone. “WOW, these kids are definitely the best thing tennis has ever seen,” said everyone.

“*Bill Wurtz voice* I bet that’ll last a long time!” Says me.

Alex Michelsen makes the second week. He gets bageled by Alex De Minaur. Nobody seemed to care when he beat Demon, but god forbid he loses badly to the world number 8!!! GIMME A BREAK OMG…

Joao was proud of himself for his victory. Alex was disappointed in himself for his loss.

In Delray in 2025, Alex has another huge chance at a tournament win. He does not get it. The same week, Joao reaches the final in Buenos Aires at the age of 18.

But it’s nothing like when Alex did it. Alex was just some random kid who somehow beat John Isner. Yet, for Joao, despite his youth, it’s somehow already “a long time coming.” And it’s nothing like when Alex did it, because Joao wins. And in the end, Joao gets a trophy, and Alex leaves with nothing.

Alex may be ranked higher. He may have greater tour experience and success. He may have just as much potential. But Joao has the attention of millions, including Alex himself.

Joao Fonseca must bear the weight of the entire future, and Alex Michelsen cannot be seen as more than his past.

[egophiliac]

(breathing into a paper bag) FRALIO....

can't believe they gave us another guy. oh my god. so I guess Kelka is more, uhhh, more OOO then, and Fralio is Ankh? not that it matters too much, although they do seem to be doing something with the connected Riders so. who knows. anything goes! or if I may, anything gOOOes! god. of course they're the Ambition parallel. of course they are. oh my god.

fortunately there's nothing else they can throw at me right now that could possibly --

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[canisalbus]

I LOVE your art!! especially the very specific ways to depict intimacy. It feels very real, it's so so tender but there is often that sheer layer of tension that makes me want to consume as much as your art as possible. I hope I'm not bothering ypu, but what's the porch of your two characters? I love them, I love their dynamic.

Aa thank you for your kind words! I'm glad you like my stuff :>

You probably mean my current main characters, Vasco (the golden floppy-eared dog) and Machete (the pointy white dog). They're a couple living in the late 16th century Italy, at the very end of the Renaissance era. Vasco comes from a wealthy noble background and has a career in politics. Machete is a catholic cardinal, and as a secretary of state he oversees Vatican's foreign politics. Due to their surroundings they have to keep their relationship strictly secret.

Vasco originates in and lives in Florence. Machete is originally from Sicily and lives in Rome. They first met in their late teens/early adulthood when they were both studying in Venice. They were best friends before their feelings deepened, but eventually they had to separate. Machete graduated and was ordained a priest as intended. Vasco dropped out and returned home, where his family pressured him into wedlock. He ended up in a lavender marriage with a lesbian noblewoman named Ludovica (the red and white spaniel), she also has her own partner (still unnamed). Vasco and Ludovica are close friends, they get along well and cover each others' backs, but their union is purely platonic.

Machete and Vasco reunited in their early thirties by random chance, largely because they both work in foreign relations, and quickly resumed where they left off. They don't live together and can only see each other intermittently. Usually it's Vasco who visits Machete in Rome under the guise of working as a Florentine ambassador, but sometimes Machete manages to find an excuse to travel to see Vasco as well. They stay together for over a decade, meeting in secret and maintaining regular correspondence when their duties keep them apart (and quietly come to regard each other as their spouse), until Machete gets assassinated in his early/mid fourties. Vasco lives to his seventies and dies of old age.

They also have a modern au, which works as a sort of a reincarnation situation. They get to be a couple openly, get married eventually and grow old together.

[hinamie]

hhmmmmm uh im dusting the cobwebs off my brain trying 2 come up w something interestinf uhh.......anything non spoiler-y you can discuss w regards to geto in the atla au perchance?

hi rin !!!!! tysm fr sending i hope u r doing well <3

atla geto lore fr u courtesy of sam:

he's a waterbender from the northern water tribe. he can bloodbend but finds it distasteful

he gave gojo the betrothal necklace/proposed to him when they were 20 (all of the adult characters are aged up in the fic vs jjk canon ages)

all of his decisions are driven by a desire to lighten the burden placed on gojo's shoulders

aaaaand atla geto draws fr u courtesy of Me :3

jjk atla!au with @philosophiums

[drenched-in-sunlight]

Yesterday for the first time I saw a post in a public forum that actually points out Marika has every reason to be so cold & distant towards Maliketh... thanks God.

The Two Fingers/ EIden Beast stood aside & let her entire family die, then when it successfully entrapped her in a literal divine prison it said “here we gave you a brother lol” like istg WHAT are you even saying. Her entire real family is already in a ditch !!! No prayers to the Gods help them! And now these Godlike beings are like take this random guy as your bro???

It’s confirmed in the base game Shadowbeast is like sleeper agent that the Two Fingers put there to monitor their Empyrean & off them if they try to rebel, no matter how earnest the Shadowbeast sounds. Ranni and Blaid literally grew up together & we still have to get rid of him at the end of her questline 💀 Marika was a young woman who had lost everything then forced to recognize some stranger as family. To her that must be some fucked up joke.

And get this, I do believe Maliketh and Blaidd care for Marika & Ranni genuinely, it’s a tragedy that they were born to bring “nothing but bale” to the person they love. Just like how Messmer, the beloved son in the Shadow, also became a curse to the person he loves the most in the end. That’s the doomed narrative they are trying to portray.

[acoraxia]

okay first off if u get a notif that i just followed u IGNORE IT i missed the ask button and accidentally hit the unfollow button rip </333

second off DO YOU HAVE A MARIA DESIGN TO GO WITH UR SHADOW. AND IF SO. pretty plz can i see it 🥺

I DO NOT SEE… THERE IS NO NOTIF 🙂‍↔️

also yes i do! i don’t think i’ve ever uploaded it anywhere but here’s my girly