#regarding the twins

[belorage]

I was tagged by @adelaidedrubman​ and @strafethesesinners​ to assassinate some boys in this quiz! Thank you, babes. It was nothing if not crushing. For them; I’m thriving!

Tagging: @florbelles @unholymilf (so thrilled to type this, you have no idea) @heroofpenamstan @multiverse-of-themind @confidentandgood @dihardys @jackiesarch @roofgeese @risingsh0t @shallow-gravy @indorilnerevarine @teamhawkeye @shellibisshe and anyone else who wants to torment their faves.

NIKOLAOS DIAMANTIS // behind the mask

you aren’t slick about whatever you think you’re hiding. glass shatters in your midst, blood spills, children scream. like some of your friends, your personality of choice is entirely artificial. the difference between you and them is that you can get away with it. you’re unknown, perhaps even to yourself, and your goals are complex. anyone stupid enough to fall for you is setting themselves up to be frustrated and confused, owing to your being ultimately unknowable. i hope you can find an identity that makes you comfortable.

RAFAEL ESTRADA // acerbic wit

you’re a mentor — an old scarred wolf, an injured soldier, a disgraced paladin. your teachings read as shamelessly pretentious, speaking in rhymes and biting down hard into anyone stupid enough to make the wrong move. this isn’t your first life, nor your second, nor your sixth — you’ll make the most of your time shackled to this world, no matter how many loops it takes to get it right. with every defeat, you reincarnate; a little smarter, a little quicker, crueler and nastier. will you choose to be brutal, equalizing, that final strike in the face of your enemies? will you go soft, become tender and domesticated? the choice is yours. it’s not like i can stop you.

WESLEY BROOKS // silent admission

in tarot, the fool is numbered 0 — the number of unlimited potential. as the protagonist, he is ever present, and therefore needs no introduction. the world revolves around you in ways that i can’t begin to describe, though you’d shrug it off if i were to begin to explain. i need you to know that time is running out. if you want to get this done, you need to start now. sloth is your greatest enemy in this world, and you can only run so far from the opposition when you start with such a disadvantage. keep your head high, yeah? the kid you were is still in there somewhere. you need to show him that it was worth it.

[multicolour-ink]

Do you think Mario and Luigi make "twin jokes" to each other?

Something like:

I'm only shorter because Luigi sat on me in the womb!

Well I'm only skinnier because YOU stole all the nutrients!

[radiance1]

"There is two of you."

Logos leaned back in his seat, resting his head against his fist as he stared at a screen displaying Pathos, currently being buried beneath a mass of different ghostly animals. "That there is."

Distain crossed Damian's face. "Who in their right mind would ever clone the likes of you, brother?" He waved a hand at the screen, a small flash of envy that crossed his heart over seeing the clone buried beneath a mass of fluff, before blinking, and jerking his head and Daniel's direction. "Full offense."

"None taken." Logos's voice was cold and emotionless, containing a more mechanical edge due to the voice changer installed in his gas mask. "Pathos is not my clone, he is half of me." Logos raised his other hand before Damian could speak. "We were torn apart, in case you were wondering."

Damian hummed, moving his eyes away from the screen and around the lab. Giving a begrudging nod at the extreme cleanliness, and eyeing a few of the tech left around, before turning back to his twin with a raised eyebrow. "I can't imagine the reason you called me here was for a mere chat."

Logos nodded. "Pathos wishes to become a hero, yet I have a different goal." Logos stood up from his chair, walking over to Danny until he was relatively close and held out a hand. "Such that I am unable to watch over him at every turn, so, dear brother. Will you look over him in my stead?"

Damian stared at the outstretched hand, before back at Daniel's gas mask covered face. His face was calm as he stared back at his twin, before clicking his tongue. "Tt. As pathetic as always. Such incompetence that you need others to clean up whatever mess your other half will surely bring." Damian crossed his arms, glaring at his twin.

"I will not be that person, Daniel."

Logos hummed. "The probability of you saying no was quite high, so I am not surprised." He walked past Damian, beckoning his twin with a hand to follow as he stopped at a nearby table, quickly gathering a few items he sought after. "These are the objects that will 'sweeten the deal' as some would say."

Said objects looked to be a few buttons, a ball, a laser pointer, and an arm bracer.

"And you expect me to accept to watch over your other half, for mere trinkets?" Damian wrinkled his nose, as he stared at Daniel as if he were an idiot, which he very surely believes he is. "I expected you to be smarter than that, but I am not surprised by your usual incompetence."

Logos shook his head. "These are not mere trinkets, brother, and I know you recognize that as well. These," Danny picked up the few small buttons, tossing them at Damian, who easily caught them. "Will are capable of expanding into ectoplasmic nets, that will also deliver a shock to those who try to get out of them, nothing lethal, so worry not about your father having an issue with them."

Damian hummed, holding one of the buttons up to his eye. Logos waved to a nearby target that he set up for this exact circumstance. "Go ahead, try it."

Damian glanced at his twin, before throwing the button at the target. It expanded into a large net that shouldn't have been able to be held in such a small object, wrapping around the target.

"Unfortunately, you will be unable to test the shock function at this moment, so you will have to test it later on a live subject."

"Tt."

Logos tilted his head. "You seem displeased."

"That you are capable? Yes. I am."

Logos hummed, before taking up the ball. "That is a mechanical eye, you be able to see through it, which would certainly make it easier for you who stalks the night, yes?" Damian clicked his tongue, and Logos took that as enough to continue. "You will be able to look through it with these," He picked up the arm bracer in his other hand and handed both items to Damian. "The bracer connects to the eye, which will show you a live recording of what is happening on the other side." Logos turned to pick up the laser pointer, before blinking. "Ah, just will it to move, and it will. So long as you have the bracer on."

Damian stared at the bracer for a moment, before swiftly putting it on, and the mechanical eye sprang to life as soon as he finished. A screen appeared over his arm, giving him a direct look through the eye's position. He tested the movement and found it true.

"Being torn apart may have been the best thing that has happened to you, brother."

"Perhaps." Logos threw the laser pointer at Damian, which he caught. "That is a small, portable laser, while also acting as a regular laser pointer. Just twist the knob at the bottom and you'll be able to adjust it." Logos' eyes narrowed. "Do not test it in here, or anywhere near here, for that matter."

Damian pocketed it silently, before recrossing his arms. He grunted.

"Pathos will be happy to receive your cooperation, though he is quite emotional, I expect you to work around that." Logos held out a hand, and Damian stared at it for a good few moments, before begrudgingly putting his hand in his twin's for a handshake.

Damian had a foreboding feeling that he would regret ever accepting this deal, and not even a minute after meeting him he already did.

[Based off of this post, and thank you @ashfly for the name suggestions! :3]

[yuesya]

“Atten-tion!”

Maki-san’s hand raps sharply against the blackboard; Nobara straightens in her seat.

“Listen up,” the second-year student begins gravely, “There’s been a significant new development in our investigations. For those who haven’t heard the news yet –yesterday, the first years saw Geto-sensei on a date with his girlfriend!”

“Tsuna?”

Maki-san pauses. “Good point. Did you guys get any pictures?”

Nobara nods, “Yeah, I think Fushiguro got one on his phone–”

There’s a mad scramble around them immediately, as every other student jumps Fushiguro, making a grab for the startled boy’s cell phone. Mainly the second years, who hadn’t been there to spy on Geto-sensei’s date in person, and are intensely curious about the unsolved mystery that’s been plaguing them for the entirety of their first year.

“I got it!” Panda cheers, raising Fushiguro’s cell phone into the air, before it’s instantly snatched out of his paws.

“Give it here!”

“Hey, stop shoving me–”

“Okaka!”

The phone changes hands again, fumbling between students. Eventually, the dust settles; Nanako is the ultimate victor, and she promptly solves the problem by texting the picture to everyone in the room.

“There,” the second year student huffs, “Now was that really so hard, guys?”

“I hate you all,” Fushiguro wheezes, his voice coming out a little muffled from the bottom of the pile that he’s stuck in. Nobara doesn’t envy his position at all, ha! Itadori pokes their classmate with a finger, which earns him a faintly irritated look.

The second years aren’t really paying attention to them anymore at the moment, though, distracted by the evidence on their phones: A picture of Geto-sensei and his girlfriend walking side by side, with the white-haired lady’s arm intimately looped through his own.

“I knew it,” Maki-san hisses as a wide grin slowly spreads over her face, while Mimiko groans. “Pay up, girls!”

The Hasaba twins make identical noises of disappointment, but grudgingly hand over a few bills, which Maki-san promptly splits with Inumaki.

Nobara leans forward, “Wait, what?”

“It’s an ongoing bet,” Maki-san explains. “Those two were convinced that there’s something going on between Geto-sensei and Gojo-sensei, but Toge and I swear that we’ve seen Geto-sensei around town with another lady before. You really should’ve been here last year during Christmas, too, he was–”

“He’s best friends with Gojo-sensei!” Mimiko protests. “He called him his one and only–”

“Then explain this!” Maki-san brandishes her phone. Mimiko pouts.

“You don’t know that they’re dating for sure,” she grumbles.

“Ehh? But didn’t the lady feed Geto-sensei something from her fork?” Itadori pipes up, confused. “You don’t do that if you’re not dating, right?”

“Well… well, still!” Nanako blusters, coming to her sister’s defense. “Besides, look at that hair, that height. I bet that Geto-sensei is subconsciously still attracted to Gojo-sensei, if his girlfriend looks like this!”

“Ha!” Maki-san smirks. “So you do admit that this woman is Geto-sensei’s girlfriend!”

“W-wait, that’s not what I–!”

“… I don’t get it,” Yoshino says hesitantly as the argument carries on around them. “Is it really such a big deal that Geto-sensei is seeing someone…?”

Yoshino Junpei is still a new student, so it only makes sense that he still doesn’t get it.

“It is when he’s hiding his girlfriend from us and refuses to say anything about it when asked,” Nobara sniffs. “Listen up, Yoshino. This is the First of the Two Great Mysteries of Tokyo Jujutsu High: Who is Geto-sensei’s girlfriend?”

The boy laughs nervously, “Two Great Mysteries…? What’s the second one, then?”

“The second: Why is Gojo-sensei Like That after midnight?”

Yoshino blinks. “… Like what?”

Nobara gives the poor, unfortunate soul a pitying look. “You’ll see.”

[fry-house]

Drayton's the guy who gets pissed off when the kids bring home a pet because dammit they don't need another mouth to feed, only for the pet to quickly imprint on him because he's the one who actually feeds and cares for it, and he ends up loving it despite himself

Chop Top: I thought you didn't like that cat

Drayton, giving the cat a bowl of meat scraps: I don't

[agent37]

started dndads 👍

have a taylor bc hes a boopsie doo and a few oaks from ep1 bc . bro sparrow and lark are fucking evil little shits ?

[fernflowerss]

Do you see my vision? Please tell me you see my vision

[steppesliver]

 a tender guardian and protector to his twin brother, peter. architect peter stamatin survives as long as the polyhedron, the paramount of his creation, survives. architect andrey stamatin is dead for as long as his brother is. i'm andrey. andrey, not peter; don't you dare call me that. i'm quite a quarreller—and i don't want to discredit my soulmate! nonsense! i'm not in love with maria. i do admire her - that goes without saying - but i only love one person in the world, and that's my brother. what do you want from half a man? there isn't a single boundary i haven't broken. i've done everything i've ever wanted to.

[theelast-straw]

king of consent

[m-awile]

ingo is terrified

[silvantransthranduiltrash]

The thing about the Oropher & Cloudryad, Thranduil, Lasgen line up is that there isn’t even 50 between Oropher/Cloudryad and Lasgen, despite them being grandchild and grandparents respectively.

And that’d be fine if they were humans, but these are elves. 50 years becomes essentially worthless really fast.

Oropher and Cloudryad awoke 10 years before they had Thranduil and Miriel, and Thranduil had Lasgen when he was 38.

So the dynamic is rather interesting despite them being 3 generations.

In addition to the traditional parent/child dynamic, there’s also a strong friend/mutual respect as individuals happening between the 4 of them.

Bc in truth, no one can really pull seniority over each other, because there essentially is none. As a result, neither Oropher, Cloudryad, nor Thranduil weaponize “i am your father/mother” between them. Granted they don’t do it in general even with Lasgen’s siblings, but it’s especially notable between these 4.

Like with Lasgen’s siblings (Lirion, Kleoyia, and Legolas) there’s still over 4000 years between them and the 4, and that’s enough time to genuinely say “hey, i have more experience with xyz, so please listen to me”.

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Furthermore, the dynamic between Lasgen, Lirion, Kleoyia, and Legolas is also rather interesting, because it’s a wierd mix between “x is significantly older than me, so i should listen to them” and “age doesn’t impact the dynamic at all”.

Lasgen was born at Lake cuivinen, Lirion was born somewhere around the time the 1st age became the 2nd age, Kleoyia was born a millenia after that, and Legolas was born a millenia after that.

So with at least a millenia between each sibling, there is a genuine experience gap between them. And it also means that each elf got “baby sibling/only sibling” treatment for a significant amount of time before the next sibling came.

And you’d think that, with all the older siblings being well into adulthood it’d mean that they aren’t close due to the age gap.

But that’s not what happened at all.

See, while they know and acknowledge where they stand in terms of experience, it doesn’t really impact or influence their dynamic.

Like yes, Legolas is the baby sibling, but that’s not his role in the dynamic of the 4. And Lasgen’s the eldest, but that isn’t why she’s in charge (she’s in charge bc she does not let anyone tell her what to do, it’s personality trait).

And to be fair, all 4 of them do not like being told what to do, regardless of who it is. So the dynamic between them can’t be related to “rank” or any such concepts, because that’ll just cause infighting.

Instead the dynamic is much closer to what you will find in close friends, though with extra platonic love in there.

It also helps that none of the 4 believe in the notion that “you’re too old to be doing something”. So none of them feel belittled when a sibling that’s younger than them asks them to help with something you can only get better at through experience.

Also, chaos in general is pretty standard at their home bc how else would they stay sane after thousands of years, so if they want to make a mold of their foot and poor melted candy into it to make a candy foot, you can’t stop them.

[clonerightsagenda]

This is well-trodden ground but when it comes to the debate about how much Maxwell cared about Hera, I think it's relevant that in "Memoria" - the most dramatic expression of how much she cares and how far she's willing to go to help - she's about to override Hera's desires and delete memories without her consent until they realize what Pryce did. She wasn't actually giving Hera a choice, even after Hera was very clear that she'd rather die.

My take on this is that Maxwell is not attached to very many people, but she does consider AI people and finds them, in general, more preferable to humans. However, she is perfectly willing to betray and kill people - human or non-human - if that's what her job requires. Betraying Hera doesn't mean she never thought of her as a person; it's an indication of how she's willing to treat people.

Double however, though, I don't think Maxwell sees it as a betrayal. The SI5 are arrogant. Maxwell is no exception. ("It's very complicated; you wouldn't understand it." "I never cut the wrong wire.") She's the doctor, and the doctor knows best. Deleting Hera's memories to save her from getting replaced by a dummy is for her own good. Taking control of her and planning to wipe all her memories after the mutiny instead of just killing her is also for her own good! Some people have to be dragged kicking and screaming toward improvement. I believe Maxwell would see her actions at the end of season 3 as proof of her valuing AIs, rather than as evidence she doesn't when the chips are down. And I think it is, in a twisted way. She wasn't nearly as concerned about any of the humans' fates.

Ironically out of the SI5, I think Maxwell might be the least viscerally disturbed by the restraining bolts and Pryce and Cutter's plan to 'perfect' humanity, although she'd be annoyed by getting bolted herself. Perhaps it is for the best she died before season 4 and never experienced the temptation.

[posletsvet]

Given all the alternatives and original-divergent takes presented throughout Trigun's different versions, sometimes trying to wrap my mind around its complicated timeline gets my thoughts tied into a tangled knot of confusion. But I also appreciate the freedom it gives to reshape the order of pivotal events and stick to the telling which you find to your personal liking -- since they all are equally canon. However, there's one instance where I prefer to stray from each version, and that is the circumstances under which Knives crosses paths with William Conrad again.

As Trimax has it, Knives goes on his search for Conrad after he and Vash fall apart in that village where Knives cuts his brother's arm off. But for such a climactic episode in both of the twins' stories, it's always seemed to me a bit underwhelming. And why would Knives team up with a human after cutting ties even with Vash, anyways? So I found myself gravitating towards how this scene is written in Tristamp as it raises the stakes significantly, with Vash opening his gate for the first time and Knives hurting him in an attempt to stop the chaos it causes from spreading. One other difference from Trimax this scene presents is that at this point in the Tristamp's narrative Knives has already met and joined forces with Conrad.

I like to intertwine both versions in my mind, creating a single sequence of events, and that's how I personally see it. Vash and Knives separate under the circumstances described in Trimax. For decades after the Great Fall they only have each other, building no connections with humanity; not falling apart, but not growing any closer to each other, either. It ends with Vash straightforwardly sacrificing his well-being for the sake of the people he doesn't even know -- the choice that gets him chained to a metal pole as a hostage. Knives without any hesitation massacres the whole village and forces a gun into Vash's hands so that he can defend himself. But instead of much-expected gratitude he faces Vash's shock and disbelief and sees that very gun pointed at him. In the heat of it Vash accidentally opens the gate. Knives slices his left arm off. They separate. And only after that Knives proceeds to search for Conrad, seeking answers for what was that power he witnessed. He knows Conrad was among those at least partly involved in a research that Tesla was a subject for, and therefore Conrad might have some insight into independents' abilities. He might have something that Knives himself doesn't. Knowledge.

When the twins meet again years after that, Knives already displays full understanding of how his gate works, and he uses that knowledge to forcibly activate what power lies dormant in Vash, causing Lost July.

Of course, it's just a personal interpretation and I'm very well aware that in some ways it fails to align with what's canonically confirmed, but I guess it's just the reading that paints the most meaningful picture for me.

[kiealer]

I would never force the nazu black twins on any other iteration of Black (bc of course etiquette and comfort reasons), but god is the mental image of him finding out he has alternate timeline children (TWINS, no less) and interacting with them is. fucking hilarious to me.

[olipeaksforever]

twin peaks the return spoilers below but this has been driving me insane

the way diane/linda covers cooper/richard's face when they have sex because she knows it's the cooper she loves and doesn't want her memories of mr.c to taint her memories with him... yet she covers it because she remembers. and cooper tries to help her when she starts to panic but she covers his face because of mr.c...

[chirpsythismorning]

WALK IN THE DOOR AND THE FIRST THING THEY BOTH DO IS GO STRAIGHT TO THE FRIDGE 🤣😭