#when they are sitting in the forest

[softquietsteadylove]

A little angst again, sorry. But it's a headcanon, I really think it happened in the film.

If you can remember the scene where Sersi told everyone that there is no Olympia, Kingo saying they're basically fancy robots, and Sprite saying that all this time Thena was remembering. And they had an argument if they should stop/delay the birth of the Celestial, if they should help the humanity. It's like headcanon to me where Thena suddenly stood during that argument saying that she and Gil already have a good life and then they started coming back again (the other Eternals) she's sort of stating that they're bothering their life and she's done and that she's sorry because she won't give a damn about it, then she walked out. Gil followed her and they also both started having an argument because Thena doesn't want them to be involved, she doesn't want to fight because she thinks she can't do it anymore, but Gil still wants to help them, the humanity, the mission. And Gil promising that everything will be okay, they'll be back home again together...

Sorry☹️☹️☹️

"All this time, Thena was remembering all the other planets we were sent to, and everyone dying during the emergence."

Thena was still quiet, barely having said a word since being pulled from her episode earlier in the day. Gilgamesh had excused that it wasn't uncommon for her to be untalkative. That was an understatement for their family present: Thena could go for days without talking after a bad one.

It had been so, so long since they had seen their family--sat down, had a meal with them. Even Ikaris had managed some warmth for them. But the warm welcome was no match for the sting of reality.

Thena knew it. As soon as she saw that Deviant on the horizon, she knew that the veneer of peace over their lives was going to be shattered. It was a feeling that came over her often. Only now, she was finding out that it was familiar for a reason.

"Sersi, we have no right to stop the birth of a Celestial."

Yes, it was called the birth of a Celestial. A deity of entire universes of galaxies at a time. A god borne of one measly planet's sacrifice. Even as part of that sacrifice, what they lost each time was mitigated by a cold, sterile reboot of who they were. Reduced to a question of numbers, the answer was clear.

"We're not going to let everyone on Earth die, right?!"

"No."

Heads turned as Thena stood, pushing herself back from the table and rising from her chair. They all looked at her to continue, but she held Gilgamesh's eyes.

"Right!" the human newcomer agreed. "We're not-"

"Our answer," Thena clarified with a frightening bite to it. The temperature in the arid desert home dropped several degrees. "Is no."

"Thena," Gilgamesh started, clearly knowing this was coming, and where it was headed.

"I'm with you, T," Kingo smiled, although his usual affability also failed to pierce through the hardened shell of the Warrior Eternal.

"No," she looked at her brother, and then at the rest of their family, "you're not. None of you are."

"Thena, please," Sersi pleaded, both the most gently and the most heartfelt of them.

Thena at least looked at her to voice her next denial. "Sersi, my life is here. Our life."

Gilgamesh also rose from his chair, seated at the opposite end from her to make room for their many guests. A handful of family turned strangers.

Thena met his eyes, the rest of them fading from her mind as her words finally surfaced. "We have done enough."

"Thena," he sighed, torn between the argument his family was making for human life and the other half of his life facing him a metre away.

"We have given up enough," she continued, palms pressing to the table. "Is that not why we are out here?--have been out here, for centuries?"

Sersi and Kingo met eyes for the briefest of seconds before looking down at the table again. That night left scars of different shapes on all of them, but inarguably the two to bear still-open wounds from it were the two standing.

"You're right," Gilgamesh nodded. He had never been one to argue for the sake of it, and the last person he would ever argue with under any circumstances was Thena. "But we're out here for another reason, aren't we?"

This time it was Thena whose eyes broke away--something the rest of the family had never witnessed from the Goddess of War herself.

"To protect humans." It was said with a faint smile--an attempt to draw the same from her. Gilgamesh was always good at that. "You made it all the way here on that promise alone."

It was true. She had endured Mahd Wy'ry, stormy seas and trembling in Gilgamesh's arms in the hulls of ships all the way to this godforsaken continent. Because she was unwilling to subject humanity to the destruction of which she was capable if left alone.

And Gilgamesh had never left her alone, in all their thousands of years together.

Gil pressed his palms to the table as well, mirroring his other half. "We have to help."

"No, we don't," Thena whispered, but it hit the air as if she were screaming and crying. Faces of shock and alarm rose and crumbled at the tears in her wide, green eyes. Even Ikaris pushed off the far wall at the development. But she shook her head ever so minutely. "Why this time? Why now?--again? Why is it always us?"

There was no flicker of white, or gold glowing under her skin. There was only Thena, asking why she was being denied her hard earned peace yet again.

Gilgamesh sighed, leaving his end of the table to reach the woman in tears. Were it not for those crowded around it, he would have simply tossed it out of his way to reach her. But he took the long way, unlocking her stiff posture and pulling her hand into his, winding their fingers together. "I know."

Thena held tight, shaking from head to toe. Every ounce of strength she had been given, and all it boiled down to was fragility. "You promised we had eternity."

"I did," he agreed, bringing her hand up to his lips. The family continued to stare, watching before them something that had unfolded thousands of years ago and yet was new to them.

Thena held his hand so tight that a mortal would break in her grip. She was built to fight--she was made to protect, but it only worked if she had the most to lose. "I can't."

"You can," he promised, as if it were just that simple. He still looked at her in a way Athens could never. "I'll be right there."

Thena's eyes moved definitively to his cuts and scrapes scars. He had been here this whole time, prey to a predator that she was just as vulnerable to, in a much crueller way.

He pressed his forehead to hers, "we have to help. You know we do."

Thena inhaled, breathing in the feeling of him in front of her. Her instincts demanded it, preparing her for the worst case scenario. "If I lose you-"

"You won't."

Gilgamesh. Her sweet Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh the Strongest Eternal, who would lay down his life for her, and for their mission for humanity, and both in twain if it came to such a conclusion. The ever present ache in the back of her head already knew what it would be like to lose him. She woke from nightmares with it, walked with blank eyes with it. She already knew how bereft any world without him was, in some recesses in her mind.

She knew the world would burn, because either a Celestial would burst from the Earth's core, or she would lose her heart and soul along the way, and burn it to ash herself.

[sourscratched]

warmup draws w my fave jocks

[luck-of-the-drawings]

[OLD ART ALERT] A COLLECTION OF SCENES FROM THE GILLIONS CATSCRATCH ARC THAT BROUGHT ME GREAT JOY. i love fishy chips especially when its just gillion being delirious and violent and hostile

[kheprriverse]

An endless room with nothing but a lone tree in the distance. Beneath the tree, stands a mysterious figure.

Masterpost | Lineup | Ko-fi

[dollopheadedmerlin]

I'm working on a Merlin fic rn where Merlin's perception of time gets all weird and I'm worried that the way I'm writing it will come off as me not knowing how to write coherently instead of me being deliberately disorienting with how the events are structured lol

[quatregats]

You step into the main cabin and your captain and his first lieutenant are sitting like this wyd 👀

[biblionerd07]

Simone landing her Yurchenko double pike and getting her 5th skill named after her

[just-slightly-chaotic]

i'm so sleepy. and i'm meant to go to class?? and then work??? that should be illegal. against human rights or something

[paimonial-rage]

will they try to fix you and tighnari?

[Character Analysis Ask Meme]

Will Tighnari try to fix you?

Though he may garner the fear of many, for people that know him well, it is quite easy to see that Tighnari cares for the people around him. And, well, he is also a bit of a nag too. How quick he is to notice when you haven't been showing your face around as much as usual or if you're finding yourself in more and more trouble. He does not hesitate to call you out right on the spot and point out your faults before a listening crowd. But that isn't all, isn't it? Then his voice will soften after scolding you. And with a scowl on his face, he'll soothe the harshness of his words with an invitation to dinner or to an academic lecture he will be having soon. He may complain about your various shortcomings, but he'll never abandon you. He will not let you go through your problems alone.

[bunnihearted]

🐁☁️🌫️

[theghoulboysblog]

the best thing to come out of quarantine was this watcher weekly episode where shane is rocking a better oblivion community center shirt and a headband. this is my roman empire.

[unexpectedbrickattack]

peep peep 🐁..

[fagdykepearlescentmoon]

tw pussy, pussy crumbs, putting pussy crumbs in coffee

you'll never guess what im putting in my coffee :3

You're a fellow person of culture I see

[cryptidtumbleweed]

Sometimes I just wanna lay down on a bed of moss and just... rot away into it. Sounds comfy

[selkiecoded]

paru-sensei. why did you never let louis/haru/legosi be in the same room together. why did you make louis so gay only to have him actually marry a female deer. why wont you answer my calls.