#rogue redemption

[marsskop]

Arbitrator OC for the upcoming Rogue Trader DLC.

Arbitrator Vladimir Vladimirovich Axenov, basically wh40k KGB. An awful and corrupt man.

Some lore under the cut.

- an orphan of an Imperial Guard officer, his father was a colonel, his mother a rank-and-file soldier (frat)

- was a bully at Schola Progenium, dominated and manipulated the class, already showed aptitude for knowing how to make people flinch

- somehow, avoided the usual indoctrination and came out more focused on survival and personal gain than the Imperium

- Arbitrator, showed promise to become a Proctor, but brass gave up on him due to continued misconduct

- privy to criminal circles and all the things that should be beneath him (gangs, syndicates, local law), obviously for personal gain. but being part of it means he has the quickest response to any "actual" threats so he is allowed to fuck around but is under constant investigation (which he hates), disliked by some (doesn't care) and respected by others (doesn't mind fraternization - not a good idea to get close to him), and will never get a promotion (until he becomes a Rogue Trader, for which he is the top worst choice)

- barbed wire scars are from that one time he got surrounded by a crowd of rioteers, someone threw a barbed wire on his neck, caught on the hinge of the helmet, and when Vladimir shook the attacker off, the wire tore his face open (tldr Vladimir is hard to kill)

P.S. yes, his dad's name was Vladimir, too, and his mother named him that way, but there is a joke that was Schola's choice

[ariadne-mouse]

Thinking today about Liliana, and my(1) evolving(2) thoughts (3) whether she would flip for Bell's Hells, and how it revolves more around her relationship with Imogen than truly rejecting Predathos or the principles of the Ruby Vanguard. I think we are now in an interesting nebulous place where Liliana clearly wants to flip, and has materially helped Bell's Hells (the escape, intel about the feywild meeting, offering to disrupt the memory orb broadcast), but hasn't hit a crux point where she materially MUST choose and solidify her position (openly defy Ludinus and run, reject Predathos, etc). Of course it makes sense to wait for the right moment for that due to the danger involved, and staying where she is may prevent Ludinus from looking to Imogen as a backup vessel for Predathos, but Liliana continuing to play her role - however reluctantly - is ultimately still in line with Ludinus's overall plan.

The most recent shared dream in e105 has some very hopeful symbolism. Instead of Imogen fleeing through the field from the nightmarish red storm as her mother says run, they stand together under a clear blue sky: a moment of clarity and a possibility they could return to. When asking whether to broadcast the Aeor memory, Liliana says "I don't want to do it if it will harm you", to which Imogen replies, "It will harm everyone." Her focus is still 100% on her daughter as opposed to the broader implications, but it's still meaningful that at the moment, her connection to Imogen is more powerful than her connection to Ludinus or the cause.

At the same time, Imogen is right to continue to be wary that her mother might not be able to resist the pull of Predathos when it came down to it - all those times Liliana was telling Imogen to run and instilling that instinct in her, Liliana herself was leaning into the communion. When she last spoke about Predathos itself, she did seem very deep in the sauce and there hasn't been new information to refute that. In e105 she notes that the closer they get to Predathos's cage, the more the Ruidusborn feel the pull, and she is not exempt from that.

In sum, Liliana is moving in the right direction but on uncertain footing, and I think that while she loves Imogen and very much wants to protect her, it remains to be seen exactly how she will actualize that drive, and how much agency she believes she has and will actually have once Predathos is more present. I hope she is able to find her way! It would be powerful for Imogen's efforts in reconnecting to pay off, and cool to have a super awkward family reunion in the Taloned Highlands under that big blue sky. But I also think it's possible any redemption could take a tragic turn with how all the game pieces are set up, and/or the will of Predathos could remove the question entirely. We'll see!

[finniestoncrane]

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[colleybri]

Andor and Rogue One: Sacrificing love and sacrificing for love

(Update 31 March 2025)

In the new SFX magazine interview, Diego Luna refers to Cassian’s journey in Andor Season 2 from a man with very personal motivations to join the rebellion (because of what the Empire has done to his loved ones) through to someone who is much more coldly selfless.

Original post:

I often contemplate Luthen’s monologue from Andor episode 10: the full meanings and implications of what he has sacrificed. The clues to what his backstory might be and how his future might unfold. Perhaps the most intriguing item on his list of what he has given up is ‘love’. The difficulty of analysing this one is that the word has so many different meanings, and once again I’m rueful that in English we didn’t keep the Ancient Greek tradition of having different words for the many different types of love that we can experience. There are separate words for romantic/sexual love, the love between parents and children, between siblings and between good friends. There’s love in the sense of a strong liking (as in “I love chocolate”) and the love that develops over time in a relationship that needs a lot of work (as in an arranged marriage).

Luthen might mean one or all of these, but he might well also mean a very specific type of love: the one often called ‘universal and unconditional love’. The Greek word is Agape, (pronounced Ah-ga-pay). It’s the selfless love felt for humanity as a whole, and is that behind the willingness to do anything for someone without expecting something in return. It’s the biggest question Luthen will have to face. Is he ready and willing to die for the cause - and if so, will this kind of love be the motive? The problem is that in doing what he feels he needs to do for the greater good he thinks he is ‘damned’ as his actions are anything but loving, at least on the surface. He threatens babies, sacrifices innocents and plans to kill a man at his mother’s funeral. Perhaps he is a long way from ‘agape’.

Cassian is a little easier to track as we have at least the start and end of his story - Season 2 will fill in the remaining gap. The excellent Rogue One novelisation makes explicit that within the film Cassian has an epiphany and it’s made really clear in the extract below, which is from just after where he and the others volunteer to go with Jyn to Scarif (knowing full well the huge personal risk involved).

The novel earlier emphasised the ‘need’ in Jyn’s eyes, which is ultimately linked to her love (denied at first) for her father and her faith in his message about the Death Star. Cassian couldn’t go ahead with killing Galen and it’s interesting that here he now shares that ‘need’ to act: ‘He tried to imagine executing another coldly elegant mission for Draven and finding nourishment in the stale, momentary thrills of danger and triumph… He couldn’t survive that way anymore. …Jyn was changing. And through her, he would do what was required of him. They all would”. Interesting choice of words: ‘Coldly’.. ‘stale’. This will be the Cassian of the end of Andor season 2… Needing to find his fire again. It’s no doubt why we will want to watch the film again immediately afterwards, as Diego Luna has been urging us to do. I think we’ll need the ‘redemption’ part of the story.

With apologies to some of my Cassian x Jyn loving friends ;), this for me is the main canon ‘love story’ in Rogue One. Putting faith in Jyn’s own faith in her father’s message is for Cassian a kind of re-dedication to the cause - a renewal, perhaps, of something like the ‘vow’ that Luthen speaks of. But the motive this time seems to be something positive. In his monologue Cassian speaks of all the awful things he’s done on behalf of the Rebellion. Walking away now, as the Alliance wants to do, would be unthinkable. Making the ultimate sacrifice eventually becomes the only ‘choice’ left but I think it’s so important that Cassian makes it with a clear head and for the right reasons. It’s why I think that any heavy personal losses that Cassian might experience in S2 won’t come in the final arc, which takes place in the days just before the film - I don’t think Tony Gilroy would want us to think that Cassian is acting from any sense of ‘Oh well, my life is so shitty I might as well do this as I haven’t anything else to live for!’ That wouldn’t even be a sacrifice, which means giving up something you value. Instead, Gilroy explicitly says of Cassian that he is “someone who will consciously, open-heartedly sacrifice himself for the greater good”. In other words, he has a clear mind and is doing this for the ‘right’ reason. And the reason is love, I think - and in the ‘agape’ sense. In other words it’s not for love of Jyn or even love of himself (although I think he is genuinely and justly respectful and proud of himself when he dies) but for love of all those theoretical billions of strangers who might possibly be saved because of their sending the Death Star plans.

Cassian, Jyn and the rest of the Rogue One team make the final sacrifice for love. Unconditional love of strangers. The most selfless act of all. It makes me cry every time I rewatch, but the beach scene is a perfect visual representation. Cassian and Jyn are united in a platonic hug, comforting and literally supporting each other. No doubt thinking about all the loves and losses they have experienced in their mirror-imaged traumatic lives, war-torn from such an early age. They don’t want to die but are accepting of their approaching doom and the knowledge that in doing this they have helped each other to rediscover purpose and hope. They have “tried” as Nemik would put it. And finally, being swallowed up in bright transcendental light - recalling the sunrise Luthen knew he’d ‘never see’. Imagery of death but also of hope for ‘someone else’s future’, their sacrifice being the most selfless love of all.

So you can absolutely see the ending of Rogue One and the ending of Cassian’s story as hopeful, transcendental and inspirational as in that sense he is indeed ‘messianic’ as Tony Gilroy has described him. Not because he is a religious chosen one or a mystical figure - he’s an ordinary average man, who started out as a ‘loser.. .a nobody…’ who has done something extraordinary, for love. It’s a fully secular spiritual journey but no less powerful for that. His bible, as it were, has been Nemik’s manifesto.

As for Luthen himself… his fate is unclear. I’m not sure what might be coming for him, but I hope it does the character justice. Perhaps he will get some kind of glimpse of sunrise or perhaps his ending will - in contrast to Cassian’s - be in a totally sunless space.

“Tell him he knows everything he needs to know and feels everything he needs to feel, and when the day comes and those two pull together he will be an unstoppable force for good.”

[arcade-confetti]

Batfanon would be way more fun if they treated Jason like a domesticated villain

[morninkim]

d&d tomberly... save me..

d&d tomberly

save me d&d tomberly

[mecha--maniac]

Y'ever think about the Metal Sonic dialogue in Sonic Heroes and how he says stuff like 'See me as I am, no longer afraid of anything!'

So like,,, Metal was afraid before?? Presumably of either a lot of stuff or of Sonic/his friends, which would be reasonable given how often he's been destroyed by them.

[rpgchoices]

One queer protagonist a day (Pride Month)

10. SHAWN (HERO-U: ROGUE TO REDEMPTION)

Shawn O'Connor is the protagonist of this adventure and exploration rpg. He is a new student at a hero university, trying to explore the mysteries of the castle, romance or befriend the other students, and pass his classes. The game is very humorous, and almost slice of life. Shawn cannot be customize, he is his own character and his general story remains the same. As a player you can choose to romance different characters and some of them are male characters!

RPG isometric adventure and exploration game, with daily life simulator

Queerness depends on player’s choice

Multiple romance options (3 male characters too)

[emerald-ranch]

Sagebrush why are you over there 😭

[poisonivysexywomancompetition]

Poison Ivy Redemption Round 6

[finniestoncrane]

hello friendos!! it's a very neat coincidence that it's 2 years today since i rejoined tumblr, and i get to be excited at hitting the next milestone!! 💚💚💚

update: all options have been picked and the event is closed!! 🩷

since i've just done a big-ish event though i thought i'd keep this one smaller and a bit less daunting for me!! SO here's the rules:

i'm going to do 21 of x reader ficlets (scheduling 3 per day for a week)

i'll take these requests as first come, first serve

as in: ONCE SOMETHING HAS BEEN PICKED IT'S NO LONGER AVAILABLE

so dm, inbox or comment here with your selection

please pick ONE from EACH OF THE THREE lists below

(you can specify the version of the character, and let me know reader details!)

i'll then write a lil ficlet and make a moodboard for the fic too!!

i'll update the post below as and when i can (remember i'm gmt and also a sleepy girl) so you know what's left

once all the options are out, the event is closed 💚

i'll take a week off to write them, then post them all the following week, and then things will return to normal (had to readjust my queue in the end lol)

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Option One

Riddler

Penguin

Scarecrow

Two Face

Mad Hatter

Captain Boomerang

Harley Quinn

Bane

King Shark

Black Mask

Cooper Howard

Maximus

Hancock

Paladin Danse

Nick Valentine

Sniper (TF2)

Cecil Stedman

Walter Skinner

Arthur Morgan

Egon Spengler

Nick (L4D2)

Option Two

roleplaying

spanking/impact play

voyeurism

praise kink

degradation

public/semi-public sex

posessiveness

doggy style

pet play

first hug

piss

dubcon/noncon

cnc

holding hands

sending nudes

sneaking a kiss

breeding kink

inexperienced/virginity

marking

tickling

somnophilia

Option Three

truth or dare

showering together

tending to wounds

first kiss

angst

fluff

choking

only one bed

biting

rough sex

sucking dick

blind date

fingering/handjob

cockwarming

dry humping

daddy/mommy kink

early morning sex

facefucking

edging

sitting in their lap

eating pussy

[amidxlas]

well. it is starting to grate on me a little bit now i must say

[magnetarbeam]

Vestara, after redeeming herself: "I don't think I want to be a Jedi yet. I think I want to try to choose my own path in life."

Ben: "Like what?"

Vestara: "I'm a really good pilot, and I'd like to exercise that more."

[Ben and Jaina exchange a mischievous glance]

Jaina: "We might be able to help you with that."

ONE WEEK LATER

Myri: "I know blatant nepotism is a time-honored tradition for the Rogues, but this is a first."

Syal, finishing her second glass of Whyren's Reserve: "We all have to start somewhere."

[booksofstars]

And I can't forget it

All of the love

All of the love

As we stood tall together

All of the love

[voidofgallifrey]

Rogue… what a tangled mess.

Rogue, sweet thing, how utterly amusing you are. From the very first moment, you’ve been like a puzzle I couldn’t quite solve. So full of mystery, so resistant to my charm. I adore resistance. It’s… exhilarating. And you? You think you know who I am, don’t you? You think you understand what I’ve done. But I’m the one holding all the pieces, sweetheart.

Rogue has been such an interesting challenge. I’ve had my eye on him for a while now, watching his every move, studying him like a subject in one of my precious experiments. You see, Rogue is different. Oh, so different. He can resist, fight back, and all the while think he’s outsmarting me. But that’s the thing, darling: I’m always one step ahead. I’ll let him believe he’s in control for now. Let him have his little victories. It’ll only make the inevitable fall much more satisfying.

He’s strong, yes, and there’s an undeniable spark in him that I can't help but admire. But I know his type. The kind who thinks they’re above it all. The kind who deludes themselves into thinking they can stand apart from the web I’ve woven. Oh, Rogue, I’ll enjoy watching you unravel.

So, Rogue, my dear, let’s see how long you can keep up the façade before the truth catches up with you.

[sleepy-inquisitor]

my durges: river 》 nikolas 》 crim ⚔️🩸