#villians series

[ironwingedhawk]

Victor Vale:

Victor Vale in Sydney Clarke's eyes during Vicious:

[abigail-abridged-summaries]

A trail of bodies, or a trail of witnesses—that was the choice they were faced with. Neither option was ideal, but at least corpses couldn't give statements. Victor's solution was logical, but Sydney wasn't having it. "If you kill all the EOS you meet," she said, "how are you better than Eli?" Victor's teeth clenched. "I take no pleasure in this, Sydney, but if EON finds them, they'll be one step closer to finding us. Do you want that to happen?" "No, but—" "Do you know what they'll do? First they'll kill Dol, and then they will take you, and me, and Mitch, and we will never see the light of day, let alone each other, ever again." Sydney's eyes widened, but Victor went on. "If you're lucky, they'll lock you in a cage. Alone. If you're not, they'll turn you into a science experiment—" "Victor," warned Mitch, but he only stepped closer. Sydney stared up at him, fists clenched. He knelt so they were eye to eye. "You think I'm acting like Eli? You think I'm playing God? Fine, you play, Sydney. You decide, right now, who should live. Us, or them." Tears hovered on her lashes. She didn't look at him, kept her gaze focused on his shirtfront as her lips moved, short and soundless. "What was that?" he asked. This time, he heard it. "Us."

just this little scene feels representative of the entire duology

[we-are-ignited]

I just finished Vicious and holy fuck it was incredible. Vengeful doesn’t get here until Friday BUT the other two Shades of Magic books get here today.

Thank god this interest lined up with my paycheck

[maddiesflame]

Victor Vale headers

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[cantputitintowords]

It feels weird to read a book where I don't like any of the major characters...and on the other hand I kinda don't want any of them to lose or die..

[apples-and-heartbreak]

Oct. 5, 2021

I finished reading Vicious by V. E. Schwab a couple days ago and I was on Tumbir and someone posted why people were so uncomfortable with Eli and loved Victor. Eli is a great character with a great back story but thats all I can say about him. I hate him so FUCKING much. Seriously.

He goes around killing innocent people who are EOs (people who have died and come back to life with powers) because he thinks they are monsters. He's an EO himself and he goes around saying that he's doing God's work by killing them and if God wanted him to stop, he would take away his powers and kill him. Bitch your powers make it do can't be physically harmed! And if he is harmed he heals fucking instantly. Like get your head out of your ass and see that you are A MONSTER! NOT A FUCKING HERO! WHAT THE FUCK ELI EVER? If every EO is a monster, why don't you lock yourself up as well? Hmm? Stop giving flimsy ass excuses for this.

[meltedmush]

I’m stuck in the 2ha and SVSSS hellhole,,, 😭

[stuckyrogersbarnes]

A trickster god, known for being neither fully good nor evil since his main aim was always to create chaos.

[torchstelechos]

You know I think it's kind of funny how much LBH and SQQ mirror each other, like do you guys think about how to everyone around them in canon LBH knows everything about SQQ down to a single birthmark but SQQ doesn't seem to know anything about LBH? Despite everything they've gone through, SQQ seems to be playing catch up in their own relationship while LBH was already getting their wedding ready? But for us, the viewers, we know that SQQ knows everything about who LBH was suppose to be while LBH knows nothing about SQQ's own past and what he was suppose to be? SQQ knows everything that doesn't involve himself, while LBH knows everything that does involves himself. It's so funny to me how that must look to outsiders versus themselves <3

[slowlypalefire]

This is for Ellis Twilight preview! Check it out now at YouTube.

[abigail-abridged-summaries]

"What's his power?" "Self-righteousness," Victor said. But when Sydney looked confused, he added, “He heals. It's a reflexive ability. In his eyes, I think that makes it somehow pure. Divine. He can't technically use his power to hurt others." "No," said Sydney, "he uses guns for that."

[litiyerses]

calypso having an emotion-centered character and being viewed & getting treated as the ‘evil woman’ is actually a reflection of how every woman's emotions are villainized when they’re shown vividly and are a main part of their character in popular media.

in general media and riordanverse specifically, women with emotions are always looked down upon because showing emotions is regarded as a dramatic act so when a female character shows and acts on their emotiotions they get degraded and instantly despised because of it. this is done with every single female character while male characters who show emotion are treated like saints and found worthy of self redemption. this happened with annabeth when she didn’t want to believe luke was the bad guy and wanted to try bring him back because she was manipulated by him her entire life, meanwhile luke, who did batshit crimes like causing hundreds of innocent deaths, manipulating little girls by flirting with them, admitting his crush to a 16 year-old at his ripe age of 23, is remembered as a hero and considered ‘redeemed himself’ after sacrificing himself while annabeth was called insufferable when she didn’t believe he was evil in the first place. let’s not forget piper, who’s a lesbian that was forced into a relationship with a man by a goddess and thought she was in the wrong for not feeling right with jason. during the entire relationship she was experiencing a very hard comphet and couldn’t figure herself out because of the fake memories, everybody was bashing her when she was acting confused, when she was, in fact confused. i have a longer post about this specific topic, so if you guys wanna check it out it’s right here. 

 coming back to calypso, first we need to clear out the misconceptions about her curse on percy that affected annabeth. she wasn't blind nor was personally attacking annabeth, her curse was to make someone feel like how she was feeling all time and that’s why percy and annabeth couldn’t reach out to one another while being right next to each other. annabeth’s blindness came from the titan she defeated in the sea of monsters and is actually the first curse to be put by the arai on them, so it has nothing to do with calypso. the curse was affecting annabeth because she happened to be the person percy loved and was right next to him. if percy was there alone either percy would feel alone and abandoned or the curse wouldn’t affect him at all, since there’s no person he can go back to save. and the curse itself wasn’t even a death wish type of curse she just wanted to be heard, be acknowledged and wanted free off her island. not to forget the curse wasn't harming or killing any of them yet it’s still demonized more than by literally every other thing that happened in the books. nothing luke has ever done is seen as evil as her curse just because it was by her and i’m pretty positive if something like this was shown in pjo by luke it would be glossed over and romanticized in the fandom. further proof of how a male character's actions get brushed off and forgiven easily but soon a female character does something even slightly questionable they get villainized on the spot.

she is also despised because she doesn't let everyone's favorite man get away with his misogynistic stuff. calypso doesn't treat leo any worse than he treats her. whenever she starts arguing it is a response to something leo has said or done, which in the most case she's in the right but leo gets so much slack from his past and being fandom favorite to be held accountable for the way he treats people. he's always been written as a misogynist, he never treated any women with any respect. he always had some sort of disrespect for every female character he seems have some sort of closure with like piper, hazel, calypso, the list goes on, but yet calypso is always expected to be more 'tolerable and understanding' bc of his trauma, as if every single character in the series isn't written upon a single trauma they had and have their character built on it. and he always had a problem dealing with others and their emotions and instead of expecting him to be working to change that, calypso is expected to adjust his manners.

oddly enough, she's also expected to show some gratitude towards leo for saving her, when she never asked him to do so and not for a second believed that he was actually going to come back when he said he would. is she grateful that he came back and freed her? yes. should she feel any obligations to make him feel greater because of it? NO. everything leo did for calypso was his and only his choice and nobody else's. calypso is happy that he did so, but expecting her to tolarate every single thing he does solely because of that is wrong.

[pillow-boi]

A little lqg I drew for the live painting at the jonetsu

[shatcey]

I've just recovered from the shock and even starting to notice some similarities in the voices of these characters…

But this…

How can it be the same actor??? They have completely different voices.…

How is this even possible? I… (deep exhale) I'm going to listen to them again…

[emryliz]

The self-righteous king's second birthday. I suggest taking a photo to remember Will. Let each moment make our lives shine - "Listen to the voice of your heart, cherish everything, and create the ultimate love."

"Thank you for the experience I've had with you. I've always loved you, and I'll always love you."

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