Okay but like... the way in Night Club when Hinata starts opening up to Rinne and Rinne sees who he used to be so so clearly in Hinata. Feeling like the world believes your entire existence is wrong, nothing is going right, you just want to give up but you can't. Hinata comments that it's easy to open up to Rinne and I think part of that is just that Rinne intimately understands what Hinata is going through, trying to find himself in a world that he feels like an alien in. And while Rinne obviously doesn't like to be so upfront about his feelings, you can tell he's watching out for Hinata and encouraging him to act up and act out, to be loud because someone is proud of him and is glad that he's there (and now Rinne is in Hinata's corner and he's less alone than he was before).
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Something that makes reading TOA so devastating is how fucking much Apollo feels about Everything. There’s so MUCH. Like I don’t even know how to describe it to you if you haven’t read the books yourself. He has so many complicated thoughts and emotions about just about everything and he cares about everything so much and there is just SO MUCH going on in his head. And yet none of it ever reaches his mouth!!
He almost never says what he’s feeling. What little comes out of his mouth about his thoughts barely even scratches the surface of what he actually means. Like he’ll be having a long ass monologue about how incredible someone is, showing a deep understanding of them as a person and empathizing with them so hard you’d almost think it’s projection but it’s not he’s legitimately just mind melding with this random person he met like a week ago and he’s thinking the softest, kindest thoughts about them like he knows they’re fucking incredible - and what comes out of his mouth is just like, “you’re a wonderful friend :)” AND ITS LIKE. THERES SO MUCH MORE UNDER THE SURFACE. the sheer admiration and adoration he has for everyone around him……… UGHHH!!! But he never VOICES ANY OF IT!!!!!! He never tells anyone about what Zeus did to him……. He never tells anyone except the reader about his realization that Zeus is abusive…. He never even tells commodus about how much he adored him, not then and not now… he refuses to tell anyone when he’s in pain or tries to justify the things he does when he actually had Decent Reasons for why he did something… I’m. I’M. AUGH. AHHHHH
HE DOESN’T EVEN TELL US ALL OF HIS THOUGHTS IS THE THING. THERES EVEN MORE THAT HE IS NOT TELLING US!!!!! THE FUCKING OCEAN OF FEELINGS AND THOUGHTS HE HAS ABOUT EVERYTHING IS THE CLIFF NOTES VERSION. I AM IN DISTRESS.
And YET…. Even what slips out of his mouth is so fucking devastating it is SO devastating. He’s so fucking kind and gentle with Harley and Meg and and other younger Demis and his kids… he’ll act like an obstinate idiot and then turn around say something that drags the core of the person he’s talking to into the light like nail on the fucking HEAD like he reached into their soul and gave them the words to express something that they were struggling to say aloud or that they didn’t even realize about themself. Around the 2nd book he starts putting voice to some of his feelings and thoughts about others and even that tiny fucking sliver is overwhelming to the people he’s talking to bc he’s SO. AUGHHHH
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@ofgctham sent🔪 to walk in on my muse standing over a dead body (for jim).
the faint sound of barton humming the song 'i only have eyes for you' reverberated throughout a tiny bathroom that definitely wasn't his as he finally began to stand up from his position in the porcelain bathtub. it was very bright, he thought, though he supposed that made sense. the woman who was renting it out for the month seemed to love the color yellow. and that certainly showed through the outfit she'd died in. or, to be more specific, the outfit zofia baros had died in. he almost felt sorry to have killed her because while they were on their date that afternoon, zofia was nothing but kind to him. they had gone to a rather popular italian restaurant in town as their 'first date' (though, unbeknowst to her, this would also be their last) at around 2:00 and zofia had liked him so much that she told barton she never wanted the day to end.
so, she invited him over to her place. if only zofia could've seen just what kind of horrors lied beneath his exterior at the time. then, she might've been able to save herself. there was nothing that could be done about the fact that zofia was a corpse now however; and her compassion was, unfortunately, not enough to stop barton from attacking her whenever she was preparing to grab something from the medicine cabinet. zofia was at her most vulnerable in a place like the bathroom, after all, because she could be easily cornered and why wouldn't barton seek to exploit that while he could? work smarter, not harder, as the saying goes — as twisted as it was for barton to have thought that. he only had one little problem, and that was that zofia had managed to scream out for help once before he killed her, which was at a volume that he wasn't sure whether anyone had heard.
thus, he couldn't take his sweet time here like he originally planned. barton had to leave and quick just in case anyone had heard it. so, he planned to carry her out of the place using the rather large rug in the living room, which was equal parts conspicuous and inconspicuous. but barton did have limited options here so having to improvise was pretty much a guarantee. as he was carrying her out into the living room, though, he had heard what he figured what must've been footsteps approach the door of her apartment. shit. how could anyone have gotten here this quickly, when he'd literally killed her about ten minutes ago? barton gritted his teeth as he eyed the door and looked around the room for anything else he could use as a weapon.
that's when he remembered she had glass bottles in her fridge. barton was about to get some of them when, of course, the door was kicked in. and that's when he saw him. jim gordon, as if he hadn't ruined his life enough already, just couldn't leave him alone ... could he? barton brought zofia's body up far enough to cover his all the way up to his heart seemingly in an effort to use her dead body as a shield from his gun. a low snicker began to tickle his throat and before long, barton was letting out a belly laugh as if he found something really funny about this. i suppose because he anticipated a drastic change in jim's expression as he let out a mockingly pity filled ' aww ' sound right after and gave him an over-exaggerated frown.
❝ ooh, i bet you were hoping to shoot me as soon as you walked in the door, weren't you? it must really suck to be you. you're a loser when you're at work, and outside of work too, ❞ barton insulted the other as he began to back up subtly towards the fridge to get the glass bottles. the white lenses of his mask made it hard to see where he was looking, but it was certain that he was thinking about a new way out of here, ❝ i'm just going to assume you remember me. so, how about you finally let me settle the score i have with you that has been going on for longer than a decade and let me kill you, jim? ❞
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what's the worst sigma hc/characterization that you've read (feel free not to answer btw, I'm honestly just curious)
Ok I’m trying to really think hard about this rn. I’ve seen a lot over the years so I don’t think I can pinpoint anything specific, but I can tell you what I do see that really grinds my gears. I also never read any nsfw or ship stuff either so this is just gonna be about general headcanons and fics
HE IS NOT ALWAYS NICE. This is the one I think I see the most. I guess it’s pretty easy to mistake him as only being a wholesome 100 cinnamon roll grandpa based on most of his interactions and like yes he is extremely polite and sweet most of the time but he’s not completely innocent. He can be really cold, arrogant, and aggressive! AND SCARY! And I think people forget that a lot when writing him. It’s a shame because to me his dual nature is part of what makes his character so compelling you know? Let grandpa freak out every once in a while.
He’s also sometimes written as if the accident never happened. This one I can also understand because his whole black hole brain scramble thing is very abstract and we’re not given much information about it (thanks blizzard) so I can see why it would be harder to write. But I sometimes see him being written just hanging out chilling with talon or overwatch, doing his own thing, making prolonged conversation, time is moving the way it’s supposed to, nothing goes wrong. And while that’s nice and all at the end of the day it’s extremely out of character. The man is always on the verge of going ape. If you were to rate overwatch characters based how stable they were sigma would be at rock bottom. He can make some ok conversation but not for very long until he starts speaking in riddles and telling you the exact time and date of your death then forgetting about it a moment later cause he is legit slipping in and out of dimensions. HE MET GOD. He’s seen things human minds aren’t meant to comprehend and he has world ending powers he can barely control ok? You should always keep that in mind or at least acknowledge it. That’s not to say he should be super serious though, he is still a goofy weird guy and is strangely jovial despite all that lol.
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