i read a wonderful little sickfic that had phantom!etho in it, and despite never even considering the concept before i now can't stop abt etho phantom mechanics and him just being silly with it <3
there's something kinda funny to me about certain ways scar tends to be drawn because it's like. okay imagine hypothetically you took a distillation of fanon scar designs and showed it to someone who's never even heard of a minecraft, and asked them what they think this guy might be like. we're ignoring context here, pretend we're showing them a ref sheet. and it's like, alright, here's a rugged looking buff guy. nice abs. lots of scars. he's got a smug grin on his face. very shirtless. he looks like the love interest in a bodice ripper. i bet he's got some dark angsty secret he keeps buried underneath that suave facade. but not buried too deeply, just enough to intrigue.
and then you go watch third life and he is like a cat whose owner keeps desperately trying to make him stop eating plastic.
do you think helen of troy thought about persephone when she was taken? her first winter in this new city, far from her brothers and sisters and cousins and mother and father and husband, all alone and watching the war from her windows, did she wonder how persephone was doing with her husband in the underworld? did persephone wonder about her, in return? in some stories they're half sisters, you know; daughters of zeus, kidnapped on their father's encouragement, crying for each other on opposite ends of the year. Never meeting but knowing the other anyways, caring for the other anyways. mirrors in bronze and gold.