#the oath of love spoilers

[canary3d-obsessed]

WTF Gu Wei

Ok, The Oath of Love has been out long enough that I don't feel bad about posting an appropriately-tagged spoiler. And I'm STILL bothered by this months and months after watching, so:

Early on, the Dad has stomach cancer, and the rival doctor guy wants to do a big extreme surgery to have the best chance of preventing the patient eventually dying from cancer. Gu Wei wants to do a more limited surgery that will treat the cancer while enable the patient to have a better quality of life and still be able to eat normally. The patient opts for the more limited surgery...and eventually DIES OF CANCER. Gu Wei's reaction is just "yes, cancer is very sad, sigh," without any consideration of how they reached this point. The show doesn't seem to realize it has proved that rival doctor guy was right?

(The show also doesn't realize that being a serious cello player involves hours and hours of practice, but I digress...)

[maddymoreau]

Thinking about how Diavolo’s feelings transcend time and how in the Nightbringer UR+ card Demon Lord’s Castle Tour this conversation happens.

When asked, “Do you wish to see your father?”

Diavolo responds:

“I suppose I do . . .” isn’t the typical reaction to how a child would feel about wanting to see their parent. Especially when said parent has essentially been in a coma for a year.

Along with how Diavolo describe his father.

It makes more sense why when you learn in Lesson 56 how Diavolo was treated by him growing up.

Diavolo can tell when others are lying but is unable to understand his father’s intentions.

Diavolo mentions that he lived a very sheltered life growing up. That from a young age his father never allowed him a chance to talk to anyone outside the castle.

His childhood friend was Mephistopheles. A demon literally RAISED to be his friend. Putting a barrier between the two because Mephistopheles would put Diavolo on a pedestal.

The isolating childhood he experienced riddled with his strict father constantly scolding him.

Despite everything MC is so important to him he wants to see his father again so we can meet.

[eff-plays]

Broke: Astarion choosing to die when Tav dies.

Woke: Astarion continuing to live on because his entire arc is about choosing to live again, choosing himself, choosing independence.

Bespoke: Tav outliving Astarion.

[smilesrobotlover]

Ok this has been bothering me all day. I saw a post talking about how Rauru and Sonia did more for Zelda than Rhoam did and… I’m once again going to defend Rhoam, cuz that’s a very unfair thing to say and a horrible comparison to make.

Rauru and Sonia helped Zelda with her time powers and learning about the secret stone. Rhoam didn’t help her with her sealing power. Why? Cuz he has no magic and he clearly wasn’t the one who had it. Her mother was the one who had the power and was the one to teach her. Rhoam had no idea what he was doing, he didn’t understand the magic, and he hoped that if she dedicated her life that it would awaken so that the calamity wouldn’t destroy their home.

Well he should’ve tried to help her anyways right? Well, yes it’s easy to say that, unfortunately Rhoam was put in a very bad position of being king with the looming threat of the APOCALYPSE!!!! I think it’s implied that Rhoam married into the family, since his wife had the sealing power from the blood of the goddess or whatever, and seeing how he’s Hylian, he wasn’t a prince from another kingdom since all other kingdoms in this world have small round ears. For all we know, he was a prince consort who was never raised to be king. We don’t know what he was doing before, but with his wife’s sudden death and the responsibility of protecting his kingdom, he didn’t make the right choices. Which isn’t an excuse, but in his position, it’s an explanation. Rauru and Sonia didn’t have an apocalypse threatening to happen, in fact, they were in an era of peace and the future seemed bright. Of course they had time to hang out with Zelda and have tea parties with her. They seemed to be relaxed and having fun, which makes sense seeing how there didn’t seem to be much of a threat to their kingdom, minus Ganondorf, but I don’t think either of them saw him as a huge threat, seeing how they were absolutely blindsided by him.

It’s implied in AOC that Rhoam shouldered all of the responsibilities of the kingdom, and it seemed that he was under a significant amount of pressure during the calamity. And I feel like he mostly did that so Zelda could focus on awakening her power. She didn’t seem to have many responsibilities as princess save for awakening her power and helping out the champions. She is barely 17 so it makes sense that she’s not ruling the kingdom, but I do feel like Rhoam did all that stuff so she could focus on the calamity itself. And I’m sure in his stress he grew frustrated whenever Zelda focused more on the machines than awakening her power. Which was not the right thing to do, but come ON the world is literally about to end and the ONLY piece of the puzzle they need is Zelda!!! Some people forget that she HAD to awaken her powers otherwise the world was going to be destroyed! And it almost was cuz they were awakened too late! They were in such an unfair situation! And it’s not fair to compare him to Rauru and Sonia who were not in the same situation he was in, who were lying around in the grass and drinking tea because the calamity wasn’t there.

Rhoam is such a well written character that acts the way you’d expect someone in his situation to act. And he has so much regret over some of the things he’s had to do to protect Hyrule. You can read it in his journal where he finally gives up and desires to act more like a father to Zelda, you can see it when he takes Terrako away from Zelda, and you can see it when he’s a ghost 100 years after everything is destroyed. He’s so guilty but he did what he thought was best so that Zelda could not have a throne to nothing, so that Hyrule will be safe. And there’s a lot of things he could’ve done better, but people don’t act rational under that much stress. Like come on, would you? Don’t lie you absolutely wouldn’t.

And this post isn’t meant to diss on Rauru and Sonia, I like them in their own ways. But it’s kinda dumb whenever people love complex characters and then turn around and hate on characters like Rhoam and make them completely one-dimensional when they’re not. Y’all are completely unfair to Rhoam.

[prince-liest]

lays down and makes high pitched noises of distress

Astarion romance confession scene is. BONKERS. exactly what I wanted from a character like this

he literally comes up to you like "hey, um. bad news. I feel like crap because I originally slept with you because I feared being abandoned and seducing you was the only way I knew how to find safety, except I accidentally tripped into love and it turns out that I would like this to be real" and then he confesses that intimacy just makes him hate himself and if you tell him that you care about him he looks scared shitless

THIS IS NOT THE EXPRESSION OF A MAN WHO KNOWS WHAT TO DO WITH BEING TOLD THE PERSON HE JUST LAID HIS SOUL BARE TO ACTUALLY GIVES A SHIT

that's his actual response. "Really?"

YES YOU BITCH THAT'S WHY I TALKED A DEVIL INTO KILLING HIMSELF AND HIS CAT FOR U JESUS COME HERE LET ME HUG U AGAIN

and the the game DOES let you hug him, thank GOD

10/10 I'm gonna reload and replay that scene like 10 times now to get every dialogue variation

[camgirlkaminari]

i just caught up with the latest chapters and like. those dudes definitely made out right? like that's not even subtext? like horikoshi fully said one and two absolutely went hog wild upon each other like. in the text, right??????? I have other, more cool and normal thoughts, but what is really important to me right now is that. those dudes definitely canonically got nasty. right???????????????????

[notontumblr]

As someone who was a transcriber for years, it is deeply hilarious that Alhaitham’s personal motive in helping overthrow the sages was because he was worried their antics would disrupt his scribe job. It's the academic equivalent of taking down a CEO so you can keep working the drive-thru.

[daemon-in-my-head]

"Why do you only play Paladin/Sorcadin? Did the meta get to you, too?"

I have absolutely no idea why I play these classes. Nope. None at all.

Yeah I absolutely do not know why I play the classes I do.

[softlighter]

crack theory time they say vespin chloras is serving at the left hand of asmodeus but chloras is a puppet, and whatever he's got going on, he's a player but he's not a player, not as important, to asmodeus like zerxus is, for whatever reason i think zerxus is the one who's going to serve as asmodeus's hand, perhaps if not at his left like chloras but at his right. zerxus, the oathbreaker, because we can all see where this going. but he doesn't serve a god, he serves the city, he serves avalir, and how do you break an oath to a city? by not protecting it. by failing it, damning it. by opening the gates for the lord of the hells to waltz right in, followed by every other betrayer god. regardless of what is right, regardless of if asmodeus is lying, the city won't see zerxus's actions as anything BUT a betrayal. he broke his oath. the road to the hells is paved with good intentions, or something like that. almost sounds like the story asmodeus tells zerxus, with fairness and apparent good intentions at its core. "our promises were to the primordials, and we were called betrayers!"

who was the first oathbreaker.

and does it even matter now? with history already written by the victors?

[utilitycaster]

of COURSE Andhera is oath of devotion

[abalonemacaroni]

I am really happy that the last batch of episodes have fully been giving Vax’s champion arc it’s narrative due. Liam got so much shit in C1 for leaning into the oath from minmaxer fans who wanted him to completely disregard it just because it wasn’t a RAW part of the resurrection ritual. Now that the story is being animated into a more narrative medium it’s truly going off and taking advantage of all the various ways to expound on the arc that would have slogged to much in the stream.

[telanana]

so I re-rolled my durge bc I wasn't really feeling the goody-goody paladin pairing off with astarion and wanted to see who she'd naturally gravitate toward most (probably gonna be wyll or karlach tbh) and the most unfortunate thing happened. I... got alfira joining my camp literally my second long rest in the game. none of the other party members have even started opening up about their bs so, as far as durge knows, these guys are all normal and she's the one who's Fucked Up. totally switches up the party dynamic from what I had last run and it's honestly amazing.

[theladydalek]

Sure, you’ve had someone say “I love you” but have they ever said “I’ll be your executioner”.

[oathofpromises]

This was a commission sheet that was made by NYANNIE_. Its focus is on the dynamic between @diademreigned G’raha and my Wol Stella. I’m in love with this so much and it honestly put a smile on my face when I received the finished copy this morning. This is one of the many dynamics that I cherish for so many reasons. These two are just perfect with each other:; they love each other beyond what fate has tried to tear them apart. He is the one person she would do anything to ensure his happiness and safety…I just adore them.

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[blue-lollipops-and-ice-clouds]

Rae - Alyce - Fayth

Wizard (Necromancy) - Sorcerer (Wild Magic) - Paladin (Vengeance)

Dark Urge - Dark Urge - Dark Urge

[thedragonagelesbian]

i want acofaf to be longer but not for normal fandom shipping reasons but bc im obsessed with the ontology of magic and aabria is doing something so fascinating with it in this world and i need More