♦ Giulia | 28 | Italy | Scorpio | aro/ace bi | She/Her
Personal blog of a tired game dev who gets really excited about stuff.
D&D has my soul.
Icon by Mureh
Chibi Fley by Foosunberry
Fandoms: Critical Role | Dragon Age | Videogames galore
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Edit inspired by this one, idea inspired by this post, final nail in the coffin by this and thank you @cicadadust for telling me what episode that frame was from :3
Love that every once in a while my Tsubasa Feels post gets a couple of notes, and I am reassured that all us Tsubasa fans are still just out here perpetually going through it bc Clamp made their protagonists the saddest, wettest, most tormented ragdolls imaginable and refuses to give them lasting peace or happiness 🥲
FUCK I NEVER MADE THIS CONNECTION BEFORE... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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OH EXCUSE ME??
WHY MUST THEY HURT ME THIS WAY????
Syaoran is just gushing blood at this point, to the point that HIS EYE COMES OUT
OR RATHER, FAI’S EYE COMES OUT
THE COLOUR (IE, THE SOURCE OF FAI’S MAGIC) COMES OUT OF HIS EYE AND CRYSTALISES LIKE FAI’S OTHER EYE DID BACK IN NIHON
Which gets me from a few angles, because like, could that go back to Fai now? Could he get that magic back? Or did he already trade away the ownership of it when he traded all of his magic to Yuuko? Does he even want it? It’s uh… caused many problems. And painful memories. And even more painful injuries.
BUT ALSO THE LOOK OF SYAORAN WITH HIS NORMAL EYES RESTORED?
THAT’S JUST SYAORAN!
MY CLONE SON IS DYING
AND IN HIS HARSH BREATHING HE FINDS HIMSELF MENTIONING THE FEATHERS BECAUSE OF COURSE HE DOES THAT WAS HIS CORE ALL ALONG
If he was going to have to talk about anything in his final moments it would have to be the feathers
And he almost looks lifeless as he passes on that they should give the feathers to Sakura. Because that was his central programming from start to finish.
Unless he knows something else?!
Is this the implication that maybe giving the feathers to Sakura at this point might cause something?
Is there a thread of a chance that Sakura is not just an empty body but that there is still something to be restored?
(And how cruel would that be to bring her back only to find that her most important person has died all over again?)
OH NO IM SCREAMING
HELLO ITS REALLY HIM
ITS SYAORAN tALKING ABOUT HIS FAMILY ON HIS DEATHBED
I WASN'T PREPARED FOR THIS
OH NO NOW I AM ALSO DECEASED
HE SEEMINGLY ROUNDS OFF THE FAMILY BY MENTIONING SAKURA BUT THEN ALSO ADDS LAVA LAMP
SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP
HOW WILL I EVER RECOVER FROM THIS
THEY NEVER EVEN TECHNICALLY KNEW EACH OTHER
THEY SPENT THEIR WHOLE LIVES INTERTWINED
THEY FOUGHT AND TRIED TO KILL EACH OTHER AND DIED TRYING TO SAVE EACH OTHER
LAVA LAMP GAMBLED HALF HIS SOUL ON SAVING THIS BOY AND WATCHED SYAORAN'S ENTIRE LIFE FROM HIS OWN EYES RIGHT UP UNTIL HE LOST HIS SOUL
AND NOW HE’S HOLDING HIM AS HE DIES RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM AND SYAORAN LISTS HIM AS PART OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PEOPLE TO HIM, MAKING THEM FAMILY FROM START TO FINISH
Ooh I will say the expression of dark rage on Evil Wolverine is MAGNIFICENT here. They really went all out. This is gorgeous.
Considering I hate looking at the man THIS looks fantastic! 10/10 Evil Wolverine panel, maybe only beaten by the one where he gets stabbed.
And I suppose if you were going be mad about anything, being stabbed through the chest is a pretty reason.
Oh!
I mean yeah, I guess that is how it works. You stab a man and he wants to stab you back.
On a side tangent I love that he has the same Pull-Sword-Out-of-Hand magic that Fai used on Kurogane before they went to Seresu. I’m a fan!
Fai and Kurogane are markedly less excited to see it come back this way but I think it’s neat!
MEANWHILE try not to think about Kurogane, who has spent his entire life haunted by the image of Evil Wolverine stabbing his mother with that sword, is now watching Evil Wolverine pull out the same sword to stab his son.
I am interested in the hands in the final panel though let’s see what that means.
OH.
Oh.
Yeah I suppose this too would also happen.
If anyone WAS going to be stabbed by Evil Wolverine here it WOULD be Syaoran jumping in the way to save Lava Lamp.
We get the whole reversal of Syaoran stabbing Sakura in Nihon, but now he is now defending them and being stabbed in return.
Potentially foreshadowed in Outo with Syaoran being stabbed by Seishirou there as well.
(As well as when Evil Wolverine kills Xing Huo, who ALSO betrays him while working for him, who ALSO got stabbed all the way through with the same sword, ALSO IN THE SERVICE OF SAVING LAVA LAMP)
And Syaoran closing the loop of, like… Lava Lamp defending Syaoran by giving him half his soul to protect him from Evil Wolverine, and now Syaoran defending Lava Lamp by protecting him physically from Evil Wolverine. The giving of a soul and the giving up of a soul to save each other from the same man.
“Hot gay mage with traumatic homophobic parents thay disowned him so he ran away and yet he is still trying to do his best for his people. Also he knows he is hot stuff and flirts with everyone even when he isn't interested in female characters.”
Gale propaganda:
“He is my cringe malewife I love him <3”
“Listen. Some may dunk on him for eating all of your magic artifacts (he only eats three!!) and others may dislike him for various bugs in his romance. But man oh man does this guy take devotion to the next level. He is such a romantic. Says the line "Whether I condemn this world or not, I choose you." after you successfully convince him to disobey his goddess who is also his ex girlfriend. He's a bit hungry for power, but in like, a sexy way, where he wants to get it to elevate you both to Godhood. And if you tell him that you want him for the man he is and not the God he aspires to be, he abandons that search for power and proposes. You can have wizard sex with him in the sky. His "rebellious streak" consists of staying up late reading and summoning a cat when his parents told him he couldn't have one, and also the aforementioned pursuit of godlike powers. What an absolute catch. He's always saying dramatic stuff in battle, but if you have him sneak around, he starts complaining like a grumpy old man. He's extra attracted to you when you're in battle. He has a bomb in his chest. And it is a very nice chest. Anyway. Boyfriend material.”
“This man is so sweet and idealistic. He wants everything about your romance to go perfectly like a fairy tale but that isn't really possible in apocalyptic settings, so he will use magic to help you forget your surroundings when trying to be intimate to get as close as he can to perfect because he wants you to have the best. He is also attracted to literally all of your character and gets really turned on when you are musky and covered in blood after a battle. Just love my nerdy awkward horny romantic wizard.”