#mortally wounded

[coldhands-sunkeneyes]

Category 5 fall out boy moment

[rayj4ck]

I know this is not the point of the game at all, but the story for before Ultrakill even starts fascinates me.

Why was V2 sent down before V1? Who sent V1 down at all, aren't all the humans extinct? Why did humans build Hell-culling robots at all?

[kazuromi]

help this one other girl in my english class thinks base 1989 is better than taylor's version + solos speak now and evermore

[et-in-arkadia]

this is such incredible advice for creating any kind of art i have to put it over here to remind myself

[cmweller]

Challenge #04132-K114: Injured Ascendant

They were very sick, their body broken in ways that would never be able to recover by conventional means. Their family scraped together what funds they had to send them to the B'Nari, hearing they would help the poor and desperate for free. But the person was afraid.

"Will it... will it really be.. me? Or will I be dead and that... that body live on just thinking it's me? I don't want to die." -- Anon Guest

"You fear for your soul," said Medik-Counsellor Splint. "That's understandable. Those who believe in souls much prefer a new cerebral habitat. We can either clone your body without a brain and install yours inside, or create an artificial brain support system to your personal specifications. The procedure is... well, many consider it unnerving."

Human Oyt could not speak. With the help of an eye-tracker, they typed out, "I won't die?"

"We have very sophisticated brain support systems," soothed Splint. "A good half of them are keeping you alive right now. Don't worry, they're also maintaining your body as well. You have plenty of time to decide your fate."

[Check the source for the rest of the story]

[blessyouhawkeye]

the thing about steve harrington is that he's one of the most compelling characters of all time. he starts the show an extremely popular jock and now he's got two friends: a girl he had a crush on that turned out to be a lesbian and a fourteen year old. the only fight he's ever won in his life was against a soviet spy. he keeps a bat full of nails in his car. he barely graduated high school. he beat up a racist. he's terrible at flirting. he has daddy issues. he spends an entire season wearing a little sailor outfit, hat included. and he's even bisexual

[darthkieduss]

I heard a ball strike his horse, as I thought. But on looking, I saw no flesh wound upon his horse, but discovered the blood dripping the heel of the General's boot.

W. L. Wickham, at Confederate General Albert Sidney Johntson’s side when he was mortally wounded at the Battle of Shiloh

[loveyoufictionally]

Not me crying while listening to The Sound of Drums by Chameleon Circuit

[mawapeach]

Gosh it’s huge shame that I cannot seem to finish this drawing I’ve been working on for months all because I cannot figure out how LIGHTING WORKS ON THE BODY (cropped body to the left and above head) … Anyway, here’s the only “completed” portion of the drawing… Yeah it’s Johnny Cage, hope it still looks like him.

DONT COME AT ME WITH ANATOMY, life’s hard without references. I’ll do more studies for sure

Also college has been slowing down my art motivation 😭 I’ll try my best to draw random doodles of the characters I love! Who would you guys like to see though?

[felassan]

no one:

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DA:TV news: "On the narrative themes of the game: “For DA:TV, from the start one of the biggest themes has been regret; how regret shaped peoples’ lives, how people deal with their regrets, how people maybe move past their regrets.” Each of the characters, the stories as a whole, have elements of this tied throughout. They really wanted to have this thematic cohesiveness to the game’s story."

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Tevinter Nights, Callback: “I am the heart of what was here. An echo that has breached the Fade. And I can still the bravest blade or magic. I am Regret! There is so much of me that's here. So much Regret behind these deeds. I wonder if you know the dread that's coming? I am the regret of a god!" Sutherland then cries out, echoing the regret that drew Regret to Skyhold: "I regret! I regret acting alone! I regret using my friends! I regret now!" Regret had never been accepted. Never owned. The regret that had drawn it to Skyhold had a very long memory. For a moment, the sunlight illuminated something within - a sliver of the spirit it might have been. Not the opposite of regret. A different flavor, or shade. Contemplation. Introspection. It felt the echo of the actions that had summoned it. There might have been a better choice, said a thought it had not been allowed. It glimpsed the spirit realm beyond the Veil, and a faraway glimmer. Familiar, and somehow far brighter than what had drawn it here. It knew where it would go. Rat hefted her hammer, brought it down on the demon, and a lazy breeze blew in the garden."

Regret saw a faraway bright light in the Fade / Crossroads when it died? The light called to it and that's where it went, it went home. To a Lighthouse, and a lonely god.

[oathkeeper-of-tarth]

I have all the time in the world. How about you?

There is a theme to Aylin's threats and vows of vengeance that I've noticed and that I want to share.

Do what you will. I cannot prevent you. But you know as well as I, I will come for you. One day.

That one, for example, is for Balthazar, while she is imprisoned.

I cannot prevent you. But I can advise you. Be careful to whom you yoke your fate. One day, when he is severed from me, Ketheric will die. I will not. And when I am freed, I will remember whose recompense to claim.

Did you expect me to beg? To cry? To plead? For what. I accept my fate - for now. But the life of a divine is longer than you can fathom, Sharran. And this cold chapter will close, one day.

And those are for you, when you've yet to harm her, when she's still only warning you off. But then, if you choose to try to kill her, like so many before you:

Was it everything you hoped for? Was it sweet, Sharran, to murder a paladin of Selûne - her daughter - her sword? Congratulations - your mistress Shar will write your name on her hand. And I? I will come for you. When the time is right.

The next bit depends on your character's gender:

When your sons are grown and your beard is long and wiry; when you cannot hold your nightly water and your nose grows as long as your weary, weary days… When your daughters are grown and your chin sprouts whiskers dark - when your teeth are yellow as corn and your sleep grows short and your days are long and weary, so weary… When your children are grown and your eyes are weak; when your nose grows as long as your weary, weary days…

Ultimately, your fate will be the same:

That is when this immortal will visit you, Sharran. That is when I will show you what it is to be afraid.

All these long-term promises of one day, coupled with inevitability.

I find it so striking that most of Aylin's threats include her flaunting and flexing her immortality (as well as her flawless, long memory) over whoever has wronged her.

Present your weapon, soldier. Plunge it into the Nightsong. I cannot stop you. But know this: I never forget a face. HAH! Are you afraid, Sharran? Do you rattle and jump at the realisation that an immortal has your face emblazoned in her mind forevermore?

Everything is but a passing inconvenience to her, she claims, even a century of imprisonment and torment. Outlasting, outliving - that is simply what she does and what she chooses to intimidate with. Promising to wait until you are old and decrepit, until after you've experienced all the vagaries of age that she never will, leaving her sword hanging over your head throughout the entire miserable lifespan that she has permitted you to have.

Then, if you wrong her in a very heinous way, there's the extreme one of outliving not only you, but killing and extinguishing your entire bloodline in order to obliterate every trace of you from existence:

WHEN I AM FREE, I WILL DESTROY YOU! I WILL MURDER YOU, AND YOUR CHILDREN, AND THEIR CHILDREN BESIDE! I will rip this world apart, plank and beam, until every iota of your being is scalded by my light. This is my promise. This is my vow.

Over and over, Aylin builds her oaths of vengeance on the foundations of an utter, even proud, certainty that she will see her foe end, one way or another, due to her nature and the simple fact of her own endlessness. This is the well she keeps coming back to.

And I find all of this, this consistent insistence on it, so striking and ironic, because one of her other main emotional threads is being thoroughly enraptured by and devoted to and just so completely in love with a mortal. One who will age and die and pass into memory just like all the targets of her rage - if I think of Isobel when I re-read all of that dialogue up there, it seems to cut both ways so deeply. But then there's the extra element that every single one of these is spoken when she either knows or is (incorrectly) convinced that Isobel is dead. Isobel, who didn't get to grow old, and who is both an anchor to humanity and a very painful reminder of the truth of Aylin's situation being twofold.

Aylin will outlast what she hates, yes, but she will outlast what she loves as well.

[lotus-pear]

regret

[sukiluvvs]

AUMGH MY HEART

[unknown-lifeform]

Thinking of Sephiroth looking at the marks from all the times Cloud killed him through the years and seeing them like love marks

[ellilyre]

Diomedes with burn scars post book V bc the ichor splashed and burnt his skin

[clonerightsagenda]

Contemplating it and I think the reason I've always been fond of ghosts over vampires, werewolves, and other stock paranormal entities is because ghosts, at their core, represent Not Getting Over It. They're grudges. They've defied natural laws in order to continue being a bitch about it. No I'm not going to move on. I'm going to make you look at what killed me. I'm going to keep you up at night. Even if they're not actively hostile ghosts are, by their very nature, Haters. Forget biting people in a horny way, if I had to pick an undead fate you will find me in the basement screaming.