#they had a special bond

[pansexual-lilychen]

i just know ragnor fell would actually cry upon finding out about kit‘s death, until he breaks out into a teary-eyed smile, that turns into a laugh, remember every single time Christopher almost blew him up

[charliespringverse]

i am not a taskmaster blog but i AM autistic and a taskmaster fan and this post made me have some emotions earlier today and i am yet to see it shared on tumblr

[basu-shokikita]

what's interesting to me about skwisgaar and toki is that during the run of the show you had skwisgaar being snarky and pretty mean at times to toki. yet you could also see that he cared, that toki was his friend and that he enjoyed hanging with him. on the other hand, toki who both admired and hated skwisgaar didn't actually seem to show care for him in the most basic of levels. almost as if skwisgaar was this untouchable thing that he didn't need to be concerned for, because skwisgaar was not a mere mortal. and thus, out of toki's reach.

in aotd though, you see toki being so caring for skwisgaar. so concerned. he's the first one to notice skwisgaar passed out because of the explosion, he's the one carrying him to safety, and he's still checking on him as skwisgaar slowly recovers. when they all think he's gonna die he reassures skwisgaar he'll see him in the after life and he even picks him up after they regain their consciousness post-defeating salacia. rather than viewing skwisgaar as his idol or his enemy, he sees him as a person. a person that he loves and wants to take care of.

and while skwisgaar is, ironically, more moody during aotd, he's right there with toki at all times. he lets toki hold him despite initially protesting against it, he teaches toki the guitar again without berating him, he quietly comforts him when toki breaks down. skwisgaar is clearly overwhelmed by everything that’s been going on but he’s still by toki’s side constantly.

if there’s anything we can take away from aotd is that even though these guys have a rocky history, they deeply care and want to be there for each other. and whatever issues they still have, they can work them out, because the love for one another is already there.

[shikai-the-storyteller]

AWH... I'm skipping through Roier's QSMP Day 1 VOD because I'm looking for a specific thing, and I just noticed that when Jaiden stands in front of the group to do her introduction and her mic isn't working, Mariana laughs (not in a mean way, I laughed too) and Roier immediately smacks him and tells him off for laughing.

[Timestamp ~36m 50s, volume warning for Quackity's awful mic]

It's such a little thing, but I think it's really sweet in retrospect, especially considering how Roier and Jaiden have become such good friends in recent weeks :')

[acourtofthought]

2021 - Lucien sets his sights on Koschei

2024 - Az sets his sights on threats that exist outside the world of Prythian

In the airport taxiing line, Lucien's plane would have been positioned before Az's.

[summertimemusician]

Unenlighted: Sky and Wild don't have that good of a relationship due to Sky's guilt and Wild not feeling he's good enough when compared to any of his predecessors because he failed the kingdom once and it gets exacerbated by the events of TOTK, similar case with Flora and Sun.

Enlightened: Sky and Wild have a pretty good relationship, but it's still strained because of both their problems and the strain grows bigger after TOTK when Fi breaks, Sun likes Flora just fine as a descendant while Flora is incessantly tormented by the fact she always believed her entire life she'd never measure up to the other Zelda's because she couldn't fulfill her duty anymore than Wild could, and it causes communication.

Ascended: Sky and Twilight having a full blow custody war in the back because they both see Wild as a better successor than he believes himself to be due to the parallels to BOTW, TOTK and Skyward Sword even though it's technically Twilight Princess' spiritual sucessor (since it was originally made to be a sequel to that game) and Sky and Wild both get along well with one another, and instead of getting angry at Wild for breaking Fi he's more so worried for him and her equally (and then has to be held back by the rest of the Chain along with Twi to not eviscerate whatever's left of Ganondorf's body) meanwhile Sun all but surprise adopted Flora as a sister and is super supportive of all her pursuits and number one hype woman because she was as unhinged as her at her age and Flora is flabbergasted but really really happy and relieved she doesn't see her as a disappointment or anything and they get along like the sister she never had growing up. Specially since they can both bond over not being quite regular humans anymore and can help one another deal and learn more about it.

I will not elaborate.

[speerlyswhore]

CRAZY how Rin and Kitay just escaped from the Republic with the rest of the Cike then went into hiding in Speer just to find Altan still alive there with Chaghan, Qara, and Jiang (these were alive too??!). How rude of them though, to not let Rin and the rest know beforehand lol

[houndfaker]

i dont think ive flat out drawn kikumitsu before but the beast awoke tonight i guess

[kybelles]

aleron of vere is never ever seeing the pearly gates of heaven because you just know his particular brand of neglect towards laurent made it even easier for the regent to groom and eventually abuse laurent since laurent was no doubt desperate for the approval of an older male familial figure who didn’t ignore him. aleron failed his youngest son in both life and death.

[deadeery]

a lot of people accepted that yamato didn’t join but NOT ME. I’m living in my delusion where yamato did join and he’s still here present with every update and I’m waving and cheering at him. He’s having so much fun good for him 💞💞💞💞💞

[muzzleroars]

You've mentioned in a previous post that your Michael aims to either kill or imprison Fallen Gabe in Treachery.

Wouldn't that make the Ferryman a target?

I imagine that some of the virtues Gabe used to command would be fully aware of the Ferryman's devotion which may prompt Michael to seek them out assuming they would know where Gabe is hiding, and I don't think he would be nice about it, especially since the terminal entries say that the Ferryman's idols are considered perverse and probably seeing all the high quality Gabe fanart would set him off.

Maybe seeing first-hand the cruelty of heaven that Gabe has been unknowingly shielding them from would help them see that the kindness, grace and other traits they idolize in Gabe are the very things heaven seeks to punish may prompt the Ferryman to try to see Gabe beyond something on a pedestal or something disgraced.

Also the Ferryman has to lay low on Gabe's and V1's couch because Michael is destroying their Ferry (rude).

oooughhh michael and the ferryman are a very interesting pair to me, mostly because their dynamic would be absolutely rancid - michael is entirely, unforgivingly ruthless with sinners, he despises each and every one regardless of their repentance or their genuine regret, shame, or attempts to make things right. even the virtuous of limbo, even those that made a single mistake or were simply foolish, michael wishes to see them all suffer the full extent of their punishments and nothing less. he is repulsed by them, a result of his internalized guilt for condemning lucifer forced to turn into dogmatic adherence to the heaven/hell system to make it right in his head. however, with my recent development on michael, he's gotten even further reason to loathe the ferryman in particular - with his current state of decay, it's highly possible he will one day be exactly like them. and that makes him face himself in a way he absolutely abhors.

however, this would be greatly compounded by what he sees on the ferryman’s ship. they have an unpleasant introduction, the ferryman knowing well that they are being visited by the prince of heaven, the very angel that binds all of hell...and they couldn’t help but think, no matter how unlikely, no matter how much they truly know their hope of salvation will never come to pass, that perhaps michael is finally here to release them. they bow so low, face to the ground, but michael dispels their dim flicker of hope by lashing chains to them and violently removing them from his presence. they crash to the other end of the deck, hearing curt words commanding them to keep their eyes down, to not behold him as they are unworthy (he can’t stand it, he can’t bear to think of a sinner knowing his wretched form)

he then takes to the interior, out of a driving rain he cannot feel and that the ferryman notices does not light with his presence (gabriel was so radiant, yet michael seems to have only made the night darker...or perhaps they have imagined it) but when he crosses that threshold and is confronted with the ferryman’s works, with their ship crafted for the obvious comfort of sinners, with their blasphemous idols made of twisted hell mass...with their reverence of gabriel in such fine detail he knows they must have studied him, fresh fury lights his numb body beside an aching, sickening grief. gabriel’s likeness adorns so many of the halls of hell, he was beloved, and this ship is like a holy shrine in his honor. this is how michael failed. this is how gabriel fell without him. taken in by sinners, tricked by his own limitless, weak-willed compassion. none of this would have happened if he had stayed. gabriel would still be with him. he would still be alive, whole. it’s all his fault, everything is his fault, he abandoned them all and the punishment he now suffers strikes him with unbearable clarity

in his stillness, in his inability to act, the ferryman had followed him at a distance, a good host who would give anything for him...but in doing so, they see him. he snaps around at their approach and they witness him, his cracked, bloody helm, his ravaged body barely hidden beneath tarnished holy vestments, and they are nearly overpowered with the smell of molded, rotten roses. their immediate, automatic apologies are drowned out by michael’s furious condemnation, a sin, a sin to look upon him and to disobey his holy word. ordained as the most high in all of heaven, he curses the ferryman even as they bow low before him once more and he spews his vitriol against them in retaliation for their defiance (his humiliation). this is a perversion of worship, do they not understand how they are hated by the lord and by his whole host of angels? they are repulsed by the sinners’ very existence, a waste of god’s love, a waste of all he gave, a worthless, ugly waste that god should have destroyed once again in all his fury. whatever gabriel had said, whatever hope he offered, was nothing but the empty words of an angel filthier even than all the sinners of hell. they debase the lord, they debase his holiness and his divine works with their idols, they shame the heavenly host with their love of gabriel, they defy the order the most high has set by their luxurious ship. disgusting, vile, loathsome, the ferryman is locked still as michael finally moves toward them and brutally strikes them with his chains to draw their blood, to make them pay for twisting the worship of god into something so repugnant. Each blow cracks harder than the last, their bones beginning to splinter as they dare not raise a single hand in their defense and they’re only left in one piece because michael soon strips them of their holy cloth, undeserving of even a scrap from god’s kingdom.

yet doing so knocks him freshly off-balance, seeing the emptiness of the ferryman’s sockets, his own half skeletal hand closed fast around the garment he feels absolutely no warmth from despite its brilliant glow. everything he’d done, to end up like this, to become like them. the ferryman flees his presence in that moment, michael barely registering their absence as he begins to tremble, as he’s overwhelmed with everything he’s lost, everything that’s gone so wrong...and again, when he feels himself so close to breaking, he has to turn back to god, back to his order and to his purpose. he razes the ferryman’s ship, personally tearing down every artifact of gabriel and setting the ship ablaze even as it starts to sink. he wants nothing left of it, he needs this affront to god reduced to ash as he prays for forgiveness for ever allowing such heresy to exist, and the ferryman can’t even look back as all their work is plunged into the sea of the damned. they must find refuge, they must escape before michael realizes he’s failed again and fresh flowers bloom from his ailing body. and they can seek out no one but gabriel, aided by the virtues still loyal to him (they know the ferryman too, and gabriel asks for them to be watched over despite tense relations).

gabriel is shocked by the ferryman’s state, robbed of their precious holy cloth and battered to such extremes he knows many other husks would have died. they have no right to ask him to shelter them but he does without question, tending to their broken bones as they stay silent on what’s happened to them. they can find no words, so assaulted by the prince of heaven that they had run to find care and comfort offered freely by a demon. this angel who offered no mercy, who said there was no mercy anywhere else for them, all the thoughts they circulated night after night in their own mind laid bear by the ruler of angels. eventually their words return, but all they can ask is one simple question despite being tortured by so many: what happened to saint michael? and gabriel understands then, he sees what michael will do if he can’t bring him to reason or kill him outright – he is determined to punish any sinner still alive and become a tyrant over all of hell, not stopping even if he gets what he wants in binding gabriel. there is no mercy left in him, he is consumed by the will of god, and all he knows to do is punish...a true zombie, if it’s possible for an angel. but all gabriel can say is that he is sick, suffering as they all are.

[tianalaurence1]

[swiftlydnp]

DAN SAYING HE FEELS SO COMFORTABLE WITH PHIL HE HAS NO BRAIN TO MOUTH FILTER KILLED ME BTW LIKE I CANNOT STOP THINKING ABOUT IT FUCKKK😭😭😭

[marchsage]

GUYS WAKE UP IT’S HIS SPECIAL DAY!!!! HBD LACKTWO!!!!

[hamofjustice]

y'know, sometimes I focus a lot on the implications of Juliana/Florian maybe possibly being Nemona's official Greatest Treasure for the semester but not fully confirmed as such, or the undertones of her wanting them to promise to be "rivals for life," when I rant er I mean discuss how it'd be really messed up if she got left behind when they transferred to Blueberry Academy in The Indigo Disc

but I can't believe "I've relished every day since you moved here" is an actual unedited line she says. I just assumed I had embellished that one in my head. nope. there's no way to misread that, no embellishment needed, she just says it! and then gets kind of embarrassed about it and she says she's gonna blush when they say either variation of "you too"

not to be like "there is no platonic explanation for this," because there totally is, but if she's going to be shipped with anyone I think it's really hard to justify it being with anyone else as long as the player character is in the picture

[nyaskitten]

surprised I havent seen anyone hop onto the idea of dragon matriarchs and patriarchs much... like those are herd leaders, with the inherent ability to grant other elemental masters more strong abilities... could you imagine the potential !!!