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nofomogirl · 8 months

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Why was Aziraphale and Crowley's joint miracle so powerful?

They try to make it as tiny and insignificant as possible. A fraction of a miracle. And yet it turns out to be a massive one, with power enough to raise 25 people from the dead. A power that only the mightiest of the Archangels should have at their disposal.

Why?

Theory #1: It's love.

That one must be the most popular one. It just has to. Because that's what Good Omens are all about to many fans, myself included. Aziraphale and Crowley share a very special bond and hence when they join forces they create magic.

Theory #2: It's them

Let's not dismiss the simplest explanation - the miracle was powerful because the ones performing it were powerful. If you think it's too simple to be particularly interesting, think again.

There are many hints this season that Crowley used to be a big shot before the Fall. One of them is actually the miracle in question, or rather Crowley's words to Shax when she questions him about it.

But there are some things about Aziraphale that raise eyebrows too. Mainly, how he always seems to need Crowley's help to control a single person but then is suddenly puppeteering a room full of people.

I'm just saying, with a memory wipe canonized, everybody's identity is a potential mystery now.

Theory #3: It's a fusion

Renegade or not, Aziraphale is an angel and Crowley is a demon. Their powers are opposites and if applied at once would just cancel each other out. Like fire and water that represent them, right? Right?

Well, opposite is often just a synonym for complementary.

I think it's entirely possible it isn't just about Aziraphale and Crowley personally but simply about celestial and infernal power. I wouldn't be surprised that combined they can do things neither can separately.

Theory #4: It's Gabriel

This one is a bit underwhelming and I doubt it would be to many people's liking. But can we address the fact that the plume was kind of purple? Okay, it was more pinkish than Gabriel's trademark lilac-violet, but still. I think by holding hands our boys made Gabe not just an object of the miracle, but a participant too.

Theory #5: It's the portal

That's another one that might feel disappointing, but it's something I've noticed and I'm excited about it.

Just look.

Episode 1: when Aziraphale and Crowley decide to do half a miracle each, Crowley asks Gabriel to sit on the chair which he puts on top of this light-coloured, very worn circular rug.

Episode 5: when the bookshop is under attack, Aziraphale decides to use the portal against demons. We can see it was covered with a completely different rug - a burgundy one - so probably a different spot, right? Aziraphale must own at least a dozen circular rugs.

However.

Episode 6: when Crowley cleans the bookshop, he covers the portal with the same light rug we saw in episode 1 in the miracle scene.

Normally I'd say that if we saw the burgundy rug removed from the portal, it means it was under the burgundy rug the entire time and it was Crowley who put another one over it afterwards. After all, Aziraphale doesn't exactly strike me as the redecorating type.

Except he decided to host a ball in the meantime and we saw him redecorate for that.

So when Crowley puts the light rug over the portal, it's very likely he is in fact putting things back to how they originally were.

What I'm saying is when Aziraphale and Crowley performed their miracle, Gabriel was sitting directly over the portal connecting the bookshop to Heaven. Sure, it was closed, but it still might have given the whole thing a boost.

Personally, I think it was the combination of all of the above.

What do you think?

#good omens #good omens 2 #good omens meta #good omens spoilers #good omens 2 spoilers #crowley #aziraphale #gabriel

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codename-adler · 6 months

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my niche take (not for canon tho): i quite dislike the wildly popular hc that andrew has tons of piercings… it just doesn’t seem… right? it would fit his style (?) and personality for sure but i just can’t help feeling like he would never? do that? i think the same of tattoos but that bothers me a little less…

ah, this is gonna get me sent to sleep with da fishes...

i am of the same opinion. (i would like to stress here, opinion)

my opinion stems both from personal experience and canon characterization, and it has nothing to with aesthetics. of course, of course, tiny emo beef boy would rock tattoos and piercings. he canonically wears all-black, smokes, wields knives and listens to soul asylum. of course.

however, so much of Andrew's traumas, trauma responses and PTSD are based in physicality.

first, Andrew did not own his body, it being abused and abused and abused, by people he trusted, and people he didn't. the 'trust' part didn't matter; his body was abused. he learned the lesson and kept guard of his body rigidly, tirelessly, violently (the lesson he thought there was; there is no lesson to get from child SA).

second, Andrew took back his body in ways his psyche could understand and accept. SH and hypersexuality. both instances have him in control of every inch of his body. nobody touches, only him. nobody inflicts, only him. before; during; after. Neil is the exception confirming the pattern, the rule.

third, Andrew defends his body against whoever he must. no matter family, friends, team, Neil. his body and subconscious always remember before his consciousness does. again, even if Neil helps start his journey towards healing, trust doesn't really have a say in his defense mechanism. violence it is. violence it must be.

now. say it is a professional tattoo artist or piercer: how long before Andrew trusts them enough? how long before trust doesn't matter and the itch of the past settles into his skin? what if the eyebrow piercing feels too similar to the bottle Drake broke onto his head? what if the forearm tattoos tickle his self-inflicted scars like Drake's kisses did? what if the person ticks off a no-no box of Andrew's mid-session? there are so many variables Andrew does not control, why put himself in the situation and risk his last pebble of sanity?

i think the only way Andrew would get either piercings or tattoos would be if Neil did them. hello fic writers go fucken wild with this one.

personally i'd say it would only happen quite a few years after TRK, when Andrew has matured, possibly when his pro career is over because ouch Exy brawls and piercings don't get along well, but that's just me. maybe just studs, maybe the tattoos are very minimalists and have nothing to do with Andrew's scars, idk.

i'd like to be clear on one thing though: my believing Andrew does not ever have piercings and/or tattoos has nothing to do with believing he does not heal enough to do that, or that survivors of abuse like him are broken to the point of never getting anything done to their body. to me it's like Andreil never saying 'i love you' and never getting married. Andrew, like Neil, like the Foxes, are unconventional, difficult characters whose healing journeys are not pretty nor normalized. but it doesn't mean they don't get to a healthy place, whatever that looks for them. it does not mean they are not okay, and valid in their choices. to me, it has everything to knowing yourself so thoroughly, forgiving yourself so wholly, accepting yourself so completely, that there is no need to hide your body or prove your limits, to your own self or to others. i think it would be much more significant if Andrew one day could simply remove his armbands, and never wear them again, than to cover his scars with tattoos. to allow himself softness rather than arm his presence with more piercings.

again, it's also not that serious. Andrew can have an ice cream cone tattooed on his ass for all i care. give him a dainty little nose ring he sniffs up one time and has to go to the ER to get in unstuck. it's all shits and giggles if you wanna.

#thank you anon for that niche take #idk how niche it is just that the piercing hc is wildly WILDLY accepted in fanon #for context i do have the one (1) tattoo and plan on getting more so it's not like i'm a conservative in that regard #and i think nose piercings are p cute #aftg #all for the game #the foxhole court #andrew minyard #andreil #neil josten #aftg ask

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shipcestuous-two · 1 year

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Kaguya-sama: Love Is War (the anime) has come up before, for the relationship between Kei and Miyuki and also the 2nd theme song. But as the manga (Kaguya-sama Wants to Be Confessed To) is wrapping up after many, many chapters, I wanted to write about a few more relationships from the story.

(Note: I do still love the main canon ship of Kaguya and Miyuki. Their dynamic is amazing and I'm happy they're canon. I'm just a shameless poly-shipper. So I can ship them with each other but also their relatives.)

First, backstory: Kaguya is the daughter of the leader of the illustrious Shinomiya family, who is incredibly wealthy, powerful, and influential. Years ago, another branch of the Shinomiya family--the Shijo family--split off from the main family, and they're now enemies.

In the Shijo family, the two most prominent characters are twins Maki and Mikado--who are Kaguya's distant cousins. Second cousins twice removed, if you want to be specific--but because of the rivalry between their families, and their own prominent roles in the respective families, they still play a more important role in each other's lives than "distant cousins" might suggest. As kids, they wanted to be closer, but then their families taught them to dislike each other, it's really tragic.

First, the older twin sister, Maki, who comes into the story a lot sooner than her brother. Despite being 2nd cousins and also the same age, she calls Kaguya "auntie" in an effort to annoy her, and when the story starts, they don't get along well at all, due to their family's influence. But the two are really similar--both are tsundere (they act cold or prickly, but they have a hidden sweet, sensitive side), they're proud and scheming, but underneath it all, they care a lot for other people, they just don't know how to show it. Of course, these similarities mean they get on each other's nerves for years--but eventually they end up with a lot of mutual friends and spending a lot of time together.

One of Maki's subplots is that she has a crush on a guy who starts dating her best friend, and she hides her feelings so she won't hurt her friend. For a while, that's her most prominent character trait... but in the end, her arc revolves not around that romantic love, but about building a more loving relationship with her cousin Kaguya.

The more time they spend together, the more little bonding moments they get. There's even one instance when they get shoved into a tiny school locker together in a haunted house, and they're clinging to each other desperately. (The locker idea was even originally intended for couples by the organizer!)

Eventually, Kaguya's family basically holds her hostage to pressure her into a political marriage--more on that in a sec--and Maki walks in on Kaguya's friends planning to save her. She offers to help, and they get her to admit that, no, she doesn't hate Kaguya--she really does love her, so she wants her to be happy. And in case her friends fail, she and her brother have long been working on a backup plan of their own.

Maki's story ends up being about how much she cares for other people, beneath the surface. She urges her best friend and friend's boyfriend to be happy together, and she works to make sure Kaguya can be happy with the person she loves. And while the narrator assures us that Maki will find a romance of her own one day, we never learn with who. (I have a couple suggestions...)

Onto her younger twin, Mikado. He doesn't enter the story for a while, but when he does, he's framed as a rival/parallel for Kaguya's love interest Miyuki. They're both very intelligent, hard-working, but humble--and upon meeting, they become good friends.

As a young child, Mikado wanted to be friends with his cousin Kaguya. He called her "princess" from a young age and promised her that one day, he would "free" her (from the cage of their family). In the climax of the series, it's revealed he's been working for the past ten years to make that happen: amassing power to become the heir to the Shijo branch family, forging alliances with members of the Shinomiya family, because he seemed to predict that one day, Kaguya would be used as a bargaining chip of a bride by her family.

That's right, Mikado is the person that Kaguya's family wants her to marry, to broker peace between the two warring sides of the family. Mikado was working so hard to ensure that, if his cousin was forced to marry, at least she'd be marrying someone who cared about her best interests and would give her a lot more freedom than her dad and older brothers did.

Even so, Mikado realizes that Kaguya doesn't want to marry him at all--she wants to make her own path and be with the guy she loves and the friends she cares for, so he (along with Maki) helps her to escape from the Shinomiya estate. He keeps a brave face until she's out of sight, but then his calm facade crumbles and it's revealed that he's heartbroken. He actually did have romantic feelings for her ever since they were kids, but since he loves her, he wishes for her happiness.

So there are the main distant cousin relationships I wanted to talk about: one non-canon (but so much fun) and one canon! I'm submitting this to your side blog because that's the main focus, but I did want to talk about Maki and Mikado's relationship, too. We don't see too much of it, but I like them.

They have a pretty "normal" twin relationship, where they bicker and annoy each other sometimes, but also care about each other. Mikado even accompanies Maki on a trip to India when she's trying to get over her heartbreak... and when his own feelings for Kaguya are revealed, he pauses to think of Maki and how he won't be able to tease her for her unrequited love anymore, since he's in the same boat.

And again, I want to highlight the parallels here: Maki and Kaguya are parallels, and Mikado is paralleled with Kaguya's love interest. And the series is all about how those two are great together. So what I'm saying is that, one day, when they've gotten over their broken hearts, I think Maki and Mikado could make a really cute couple. (And again: the narrator said Maki finds love someday, but never specifies with who...)

Another non-canon relationship I'd like to mention--they're not quite sisters, but Kaguya and her maid Ai Hayasaka have grown up together from a young age. Ai has always been by her side and viewed her like a precious (if sometimes annoying) little sister, and that relationship is also important to both of their arcs. Eventually they stop being master and servant, and are able to be more like normal friends, but they continue to see each other as sisters. (And Ai is implied to be bi.) On top of their sisterly relationship, Ai's parents are Kaguya's godparents and her mom was Kaguya's wet-nurse and a surrogate mother figure, only strengthening the sisters vibe.

Speaking of Ai, her relationship with her mom Nao is also interesting, even if we rarely see it. (It's not clear exactly how old her mom is, but they could pass as sisters.) Because of their respective works for the Shinomiya family, they don't see each other as often as they'd like, but they love each other deeply. Nao leaves notes for her daughter regularly so they can keep in touch, and Ai is always eager to see her mom. Kaguya even teases Ai for having a "mother complex," which she can't exactly refute.

So yeah, there's a lot of fun dynamics and potential for shipping in this manga/anime series. Even aside from that, it's a well-plotted story with so much character depth, and it's hilarious on top of that. The manga is very long, and the anime has already had 3 seasons with more to come, but I can't recommend it enough.

I love to see a meaningful relationship between second cousins, I think that's really neat.

It sounds like a great manga. Thank you so much for the recommendation and for going in to detail about these other ships!

#submission #asks #nr #kaguya-sama: love is war #Kaguya-sama Wants to Be Confessed To #first post #anime and manga #distant relatives

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tolkien-feels · 2 years

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I've been looking forever for some who isn't anti-shipping but doesn't look st everything through shippy lenses... What IS up with Melkor and Mairon do you think? I know Tolkien didn't mean for them to be read as romantic and I don't actually ship it, but if I remove that angle I don't understand why is Melkor so indulgent and Mairon so devoted? Can Ainur even have romantic attachments?

Oh anon I'm the worst person to ask this to because I spend a surprisingly tiny amount of time thinking about either of them. I definitely understand where people are coming from in shipping them, though yeah, it's probably not canon even by subtext, and it's not something that really interests me.

Ainur can get married, so I presume they do have a sense of romance. Though I have no idea what that looks like. Do Manwe and Varda go on little dates when they aren't running the world? I'm tempted to say Ainur marriage is a matter of spiritual partnership more than romantic attraction (and it certainly can't be physical attraction since they aren't physical beings), but of course, Melian straight up falls in love with an elf, so I'm clearly wrong. (Then again, I always forget Ainur aren't canonically aroace. I genuinely don't remember.)

But this is all just a distraction - fallen Ainur are different from the other Ainur in many ways, so even if Ainur don't have X experience, Morgoth at least might have. He feels pain and fear, for instance, and he's tied to his physical body. The feelings and experiences which are natural to Ainur might just not be relevant.

But even if you put away the question of romance, what is up with them, indeed? Forget romance: is the embodiment of evil capable of experiencing love of any kind, even the love between king and subject? Given how Catholic Tolkien's worldview was, and how he portrays love in general, I highly doubt it. But Morgoth and Sauron are certainly Weird - for one, I have to assume at least some of the balrogs are Maiar who once served Melkor, but his second in command is Sauron, who served Aule. Is Sauron just orders of magnitude more competent than the other Maiar? Is he more trustworthy? Can evil be trustworthy?

My best guess is that Morgoth sees Sauron as uniquely useful, while Sauron sees Morgoth as uniquely powerful. I do think they're attached to each other, but in the way I'm attached to like, a favorite shirt. As in "This is a superior shirt and if I were to move or even travel, I would want to take it with me if possible. I will readily admit I'm attached to this shirt and get angry if anyone damages it. But if my house was burning down I wouldn't even consider for a split second going back inside to try and save it." This is a very stupid analogy, but it's the only way I can conceptualize it. Like, yeah, they sure do have a relationship in a way I don't think Orc #478 has with either of them, but it feels weirdly anthropomorphizing to assume their thing is something we would even have a name for? The pack-bonding instinct which makes humans love everything they have a relationship with is probably entirely absent in them, given how they routinely miscalculate the love felt by the Free Peoples.

But like I said, I don't think much about them at all so I'm probably not the best person to answer such a charged question 😅 Also I feel like answering it would require understanding why exactly Sauron leaves Aule's service, which I can't say I fully understand, so. Like I said. I'm not qualified to have this discussion.

#if anyone has better or different thoughts feel free to jump in

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indigobackfire · 3 years

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Phoenix Lazar Nobleworth Silverwood

Below is a lengthy history of his parents, their involvement with dragons, and how he lost them.

Ps: I tried adding some Scottish dialect in the dialogue, but I'm not the best at it considering all I have as reference is my love for James McAvoy and Outlander. Forgive me in advance for any atrocities lol. Also, diverging from canon especially in relation to Veela powers and physical descriptions.

Phoenix's father, Emilian, was sorted into Gryffindor and with pride, he was a Gryffindor by the book, adventurous, brave, often reckless, fun, with a strong sense of protection over his friends, someone who valued courage and honor.

Emilian didn't know how he and Palmer Silverwood - Slytherin, pureblood, much more popular than him, and one of the best duelists in their year - became friends, he also didn't know how Palmer found an about to hatch dragon egg in the forbidden forest, or how he even got into the forbidden forest to begin with, but being who he was, Emilian wasn't much surprised.

The biggest surprise was that Palmer even knew who he was.

Emilian takes a peek into Palmer's robes where the egg is hidden. "So? You're the dragon laddie, Nobleworth."

"Yeah, it's a dragon egg. Common Welsh Green this one." He looks up. "And is that what people call me?"

"Are ye really surprised? You talk about them all the time, yer the best in Care of Magical Creatures, and ye have a dragon painted at the back of yer bloody robes."

"Only fair. McGonagall hates it."

Palmer laughs. "Will ye help me?"

"Aye. But what ye want me to do?"

"I dinna ken. I just don't want the wee dragon to die. The poor creature wasn't warm when I found it so it's probably motherless. I mean... they fire up their eggs, don't they?"

Emilian smiles. "You're not as unknowledgeable as you think, Silverwood. Let's go somewhere more private."

In the humid and dusty air of the artifact room, they hide. "Hand me the egg."

Palmer hands him the egg delicately as if the creature inside it wasn't one that could eat them both in a bite when grown. And for a moment Palmer wonders what he'll do, but Emilian just stands there holding the egg. And as he's about to question him, he sees Emilian's fingers get bright red.

"Mate? What's wrong with yer hands?"

Emilian snickers. "I have a secret, can you keep it?" Palmer nods eyes fixated on the egg whose cracks were very slowly growing. "I'm half Veela and whilst I can't throw balls of fire from my hands... I can heat it up to... oven temperature."

"Oven temperature?"

Emilian smirks. "Ah dinnae have exact numbers, but if ye want to give a touch."

Palmer looks at his hands again. "Nae. They're as bright as molten glass, lad."

Emilian raises his eyebrows. "Oh, I felt it move."

"Ooohh, it's gonna set this tiny room on fire."

"Let me hide it this time. I ken a place we can go. The person ye should've gone to in the first place."

Palmer widens his eyes. "Kettleburn, nae."

"Silverwood, ye cannae keep the dragon. It'll set you on fire before completing one year."

Palmer puffs as they walk out of the artifact room. "If the dragon enthusiast dinnae want to keep a real dragon, why would I?"

"A dragon lover is the same as a bee lover. You can appreciate the honey, the lovely stripes, but if ye hold it in yer hand, it'll sting you. Dragons were made to live outside, flying, spitting fire. A wee dragon is cute, but once is grown..."

"Yer a curious lad, Nobleworth." Emilian gives an awkward half smile. "I like you."

Their friendship was as unexpected to them as it was for the bystanders, but one that sustained for their last two years in Hogwarts - including Palmer's girlfriend, Clarin, an uptight but curious Ravenclaw, who despite her best instincts followed behind on the boys' adventures.

When Emilian announced he would be leaving England for the Dragon Sanctuary in Romania a couple of years later, as much as Palmer and Clarin expected that to happen, it still came with the bittersweetness of watching one of their best friends go.

Years go by, but still, their bond sustains time and distance. Every opportunity they had, the SIlverwoods would travel to Romania to visit their friend who in a lighting in a bottle chance found himself a wife of "his kind".

Full Veela, Antonia Lazar, practically raised herself as her father left her mother, a temperamental full Veela woman, to deal with Tonia herself, a task she delegated to her equally careless family members, closely involved with the Dragon Sanctuary in times the place was still informally managed.

When Emilian meets her, barely wearing rags over her body, barefoot on the grass, pearl blonde hair unruly, looking as if she was raised by wild house elves, he couldn't help his heart hammering in his chest. Female Veela beauty wasn't something he was unused to, considering his mother and aunts were ones as well, but when Antonia was before him he thought of himself before a goddess.

Emilian tries not to spill the water in the heavy buckets while Antonia doesn't seem to be struggling at all. He wouldn't have a need to even carry them if he hadn't forgotten his wand, but at least he got to be alone with her.

"Why is it that ye dinnae like us?"

"You English think you run the place just because you read about dragons in a book, think you know more than us who grew with hundreds of them." She shoots him firey eyes. "Know when I first rode a dragon? I was five years old!"

"I never say I doubted yer capacities. And I'm not English, I'm Scottish." She glares at him again. "I'm kidding."

"Don't get me angry, you won't like it me angry. Trust me."

"I would actually. I wonder what color yer feathers would be."

"I'm sorry?"

"I ken a Veela when I see one. Especially cause I'm half one."

Her expression soothes a little. She puts the bucket down and grips his hand. "Go, do your magic."

While his hand goes as hot as they can, his eyes slowly change hues to match her, never breaking eye contact. "It's nice touching a girl who doesn't mind a more... ardent touch."

She gives a small smile. "You're pathetic."

"I'd love to fly on a dragon's back with someone who understands about them. I promise I'm not here to mock or doubt you. I love those creatures more than anyone I know."

She lets go of his hand and with a smirk picks up the bucket. "Well, now you know me."

Their relationship quickly becomes stronger as they spend day after day together. The work at the Sanctuary is as rewarding as it is tiring, so at the end of long days, they would sit together and exchange stories, her of her buckwild childhood and him of his years in Hogwarts. In each other's company that they find an air of normality and peace.

After recognizing and accepting her strong feelings for Emilian - something hard considering how men had treated her before, seeking what she had to offer them more than considering her needs - and finding out he felt the same for the longest time, they decided to marry, her seeing in him a sense of stability for the first time in her life.

It doesn't take long until Antonia is pregnant with their first child, and in the pool of genes and possibilities, their first-born boy is a full Veela like his mother, something uncommon for boys. Not considering what would be 'formal' or well accepted, Antonia decides to name him Phoenix for encompassing what being a Veela means to her, a bird of elegance and fire and perseverance.

And as if it was pre-destined, just a couple months prior, Clarin and Palmer had given birth to a girl of name just as uncommon, little Indigo Silverwood, who is but three months old when they come to Romania to meet little Phoenix.

To this day, the Silverwoods wonder if their timing was the best or worst it could've been.

As in the same week they came to visit, an attack happens with the intent of capturing as many dragons as they could from the reserve, something that had happened times before but this time much better planned and heavily armed with the best wizards they could get.

They start picking up their wands in haste while seeking the fire protection potion they had brewed specially for this trip back at home. "What do they need dragons for? Can't they breed their own." Clarin asks.

"Is not like is legal or easy to do so." Antonia has her eyes soaked with tears. "They don't care about the creatures, they want money. Oh, they use their blood to make spot removers. Oven cleaners! How can you take a marvelous creature and turn it into such a pathetic thing? Then they use their hearts in you wizards stupid wands and their skin into gloves!"

"Somebody must have heard about the new Chinese Fireball," Emilian says, "People seek the gold in their horns and eggs, but if you pull them out, they die."

"Not to mention the baby Romanians. Put your goddamn boots on already, Emilian!"

"What 'bout the bairns?" Palmer asks anxiously.

"There's no time. They probably ain't getting all the way up here, but in all cases." Emilian grabs the potion from Clarin's hands turning over Jacob's and baby Indigo's mouth, knowing the fire wouldn't do harm to Phoenix. He places something in Jacob's little hand. "Jacob, if any mean person comes trying to hurt ye, throw this at their feet and run. Alright?" Jacob nods, eyes wide with fear and excitement of a five-year-old.

"What is it?" Palmer asks.

"A vial of Peruvian's Vipertooth venom, extremely deadly and volatile. Don't ask me why I have it."

Palmer looks at Jacob. "Stay quiet and protect the babies, right, love?"

Antonia kisses Phoenix on the forehead one last time then turns to the others. "Let's go, please!"

And if they knew, she would've held him a little longer, Emilian would've stopped time for a couple of seconds to look at their boy for a lingering moment more. But they didn't and time never reversed.

They weren't the only lives lost, but side by side they fought and won and lost and lost and lost. They managed to protect all but two of the dragons at the end, blood of dark wizards - and innocent ones - soaked the grounds. Dragons loose on the sky overhead, blood spilt from both sides, burnt buildings, scars that would never heal, the body of a friend devoided of life, a mother of dragons and children never to wake up again, children crying in a cabin kilometers away.

When Antonia's mother refused to watch over her own grandson, Clarin felt as if it was her own son the woman refused and it was that soon the decision to keep him came. She was still breastfeeding and no ordinary family would know how to raise him right, at least that's what both her and Palmer told themselves. Emilian's parents, both devastated by the news of their son's death were quick to agree with the Silverwoods' proposal.

And it's like this that Phoenix and Indigo are practically raised as twins, still young when he notices he doesn't look like the rest of them - a pale and blonde boy in a family of tanned brunettes - not only for his looks but by the fact that sinking his hand into a pot of boiling water doesn't hurt or the fact his anger makes his body react differently from the others or that people got mesmerized by his looks enough to do whatever he asked them to.

But the Silverwoods learn the painful way that raising a Veela child is not easy work. Not only easily irritable but also dangerous when transformed, not much to others while still young, but to himself due to painful and harmful transformation, taking hours until he could retain his human form. Meditating and thought exercises became pivotal from an early age. As not make their treatment towards him different from Indigo, they become tougher with both, demanding an altruistic, patient, and empathetic behavior from both.

This leads Phoenix to grown into a level-headed, sweet and compassionate boy who eventually got sorted into Hufflepuff without the sorting hat having to consider long.

As much as he wishes he had grown with his biological parents, he's grateful to have grown in the family he did and doesn't consider himself any less part of it, he loves his siblings dearly and considers and reslects his parents as if it was from their blood and cells he was made of.

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This is my attempt at a concise history of Phoenix, mostly his parents who I dream of drawing someday. I'll make something in the future for his romantic life as it is its own ride. I ship him with Ismelda and boy oh boy I have some to say about that.

If you wanna more info on Phoenix, I made him an OC profile :)

#mi artita #phoenix nobleworth #fanfic?#oc backstory #hufflepuff #dragons are in it too #an attempt at scottish sounding dialogue #i cant draw clothes for sht #or poses #or hair #help #hphm #hogwarts mystery

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silver-wield · 3 years

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tbh after playing the remake, I get the appeal of CA, because it's a familiar manic pixie dream girlfriend type love story. It even plays into the tragic boy loses girl trope which helps frame it as some grand romantic story. and yeah they're cute, and they definitely have a special connection. I think I could ship it if not for the whole rest of the story. It's a relationship that has the potential to become romantic, but it doesn't exist in a vacuum. 1/5

The remake is doing a great job on untangling a lot of the ambiguity the OG left us with. Yes, Cloud could develop feelings for Aerith and vice versa, but the remake is planting so many seeds that confirm he currently has feelings for Tifa (which she reciprocates) and I don't think it's possible for any feelings he might develop for Aerith to overcome these feelings he has harboured since childhood. 2/5

Unfortunately those feelings are something he cannot fully understand because of his comprimised mental state. But you can clearly see that his deep affections for Tifa and desire to protect her stay with him despite that (as can Aerith). The problem with the OG (other than having to potray this incredibly complex subversive nuanced story through text and polygons) is that the LS scene recontextualize so much of who Cloud is, but by that time people had already made their conclusions. 3/5

With the remake you can see them trying to fix this by having a constant thread of romantic undertones to all of cloti's interactions. The CA relationship meanwhile is potrayed with these moments that play into romantic tropes and expectations. The bridge scene is flashy and grand and draws the attention, but it doesn't carry the substance that a single hand-clech does. 4/5

It's meant to be a smokescreen to the real story - just as Cloud is not the hero you think he is, the love story is also not the one you think it is. And that's what makes FF7 so great. It's all about the subversions of what you expect - it's about the truth underneath these grand and compelling illusions that is complicated and real but still just as beautiful. 5/5

Okay, first off I don’t see how anyone can play Remake with Cloud being biggest mood around Aerith and find that appealing. Personally I think it’s the most toxic and harmful behaviour in the entire game when he’s alone with her and she’s literally trying to force him to act like her dead boyfriend. There is zero appeal in that and it’s not cute how she behaves, it’s arrogant and self serving. Like I said in a different post (or maybe a tweet) both Sephiroth and Aerith use Cloud to fulfill their own selfish desires. Sephiroth needs Cloud to destroy the planet by getting him the black materia, and Aerith wants Cloud to emulate Zack so she can fool herself into believing he didn’t die. In both cases what Cloud wants doesn’t even factor into things. That harmful dynamic doesn’t give them a special relationship. It mirrors Cloud’s relationship with Sephiroth in that it hurts him. Aerith and Sephiroth are two sides of a coin and the whole isn’t anything that benefits Cloud. Even after they’re both dead they continue to harm him through their obsession with him. It’s only at the end of AC when they’re both truly gone from his life completely that he’s able to smile and be at peace. He has no stalkers in DC and that’s why he’s so cheerful. He gets to live happily with Tifa and not worry about ghosts coming after him. It has zero potential to become anything because to make that a thing, you need to totally destroy everything else about the story and characters themselves. You have to take away Zack being Cloud’s best friend and saviour, at which point he’s just dead. You have to take away Tifa being his motivation to become a soldier, at which point he’s dead cause Sephiroth still comes to Nibelheim and burns it. Point is, there is no way that dumdum dinghy is possible without removing Cloud and most of his personality from FF7, at which point he’s just a pretty face, so people should just go write AU fanfiction and admit they wanna bang the pretty boy and not deal with his canon personality and story.

There wasn’t any ambiguity in OG because 7R is FF7 and the devs have said multiple times the story is the same as before. The problem back then was a poor translation, bad advertising and people refusing to follow the narrative to its proper conclusion. Cloud at no point in OG or any of the compilation could develop feelings because it’s shown in the entire compilation that he has always and will always love Tifa. Before Crisis he loves Tifa. Crisis Core he loves Tifa. OG he loves Tifa. AC he loves Tifa. DC he loves Tifa and Remake he loves Tifa. There’s zero room for anything with Aerith because his entire character arc is consumed with his desire for Tifa. It’s literally shown in the damn game that he’s in love with her. So, no, there never was any chance for Aerith, and I’m tired of people trying to entertain one by saying “if she lived”. Sorry, not sorry, if she lived Cloud is still in love with Tifa, so he never would, could or want to develop any feelings for Aerith.

Cloud loves Tifa. It’s the goddamn plot.

There isn’t any problem with the lifestream scene being the big reveal at that point in that game. The problem, again, is that people refused to follow the narrative to its logical conclusion and got hung up on their dumbass headcanon about Aerith. The entire premise of the game is built on illusion vs reality and yet some people still refuse to wake up and see reality. The game spells it out for everyone. They got so triggered over her dying that they acted like the game ended at that point instead of it carrying on and reaching the actual true culminating arc where we find out Cloud wasn’t himself this entire time. People seem to think Aerith dying is the plot and that she’s the main character or something. It’s Cloud’s game. The plot revolves around him. That’s why the lifestream scene is the apex of it.

It’s Cloud’s story, not Aerith’s.

I’ve pointed out several times how Aerith’s optional scenes in Remake show that Cloud is barely even a fixture. Her language of flowers you barely have Cloud in shot while she’s doing all that talking. She’s basically talking to the player. Her optional dress scenes show the illusion for what it is. That bridge is tiny and yet in the red dress is looks like this massive structure. I laughed my ass off when I spotted it. The pink dresses perspective shortens drastically for each one, with the funeral dress having Cloud standing nearest to Aerith, so that one’s probably closer to reality than that ott scene with random fireworks and fans popping up from nowhere. Not to mention the fact Aerith’s entire figure is padded out to fill that dress and she’s got hair extensions in and a ton of make up and the ost is actually called a mess of makeup or something like that and not a certain gaudiness. I mean, Madam M tried to turn Aerith into Tifa to win the bride contest and beat Sam. The game makes things very clear that the illusion is Aerith and the reality is Tifa, and players can’t turn Aerith into Tifa to make Cloud notice her no matter how hard they wanna believe they can. Her resolution literally has her repeating her OG lines from the GS about how Cloud isn’t himself, but she also arrogantly assumes he fell in love with her or would because she’s arrogant. It’s a character trait that again mirrors Sephiroth’s arrogance. It’s what gets them both killed in the end. Aerith underestimates Sephiroth and Sephiroth underestimates Cloud.

And we already saw what Cloud had to say about her declaration cause he only ever refers to her as a friend and didn’t show any romantic behaviour when he rescued her. Unless “Yep” is the height of romance now. It’s not that the romance isn’t the one you think it is. It’s that it’s the one you ignored and acted like wasn’t important because you hate the heroine. Tifa and Cloud are together from start to finish, but because people decided the pink girl was more important they acted like Tifa had no right to what was hers from the beginning. She didn’t get between Cloud and Aerith. There never was any Cloud and Aerith. It was always Tifa. She just took what was always hers and kept it.

Anyone who doesn’t understand that should try playing the game cause it’s clear they didn’t.

#ship war #for the plot

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Sasori Head Canons

Lately, I've been putting a lot of thought into the deeper reasons Sasori would be willing to go so far as to completely remove his consciousness from his body, and I think I've boiled it down to a few main head canons: gender dysphoria, heavy trauma, and mental illness, which I will address in that order

Gender:

Agender

When he was younger, he leaned more towards androgyny, and despised the prudeness of his village in relation to his gender, hating that he was being shoehorned into a mold because of his genitalia, and this served to deepen the wedge between he and his grandmother as she absolutely did not respect this

He felt disgusted with himself, like a stranger in his own body, and no matter what he wore or did, no matter the label he tried out, nothing helped or made him comfortable in his own skin

And no one cared

Just another part of him that no one else understood or even attempted to understand

So when presented with the opportunity to make an idealized version of himself, his puppet form, his masterpiece, he was just like "who needs gender?"

He is above such silly human concepts, afterall

And let's not mince words here; Sasori is vain af. He thinks he's hot shit. He has more respect for himself than everyone else in the world combined

He knows he's beautiful, and had always appreciated how gender neutral his facial features and body type presented, the only problem was his - yeah

So, unfortunately for my thirsty ass, this means there's nothing between the legs

Just full ken doll mode

Doesn't really give a shit about the pronouns others use for him (or rather, he has convinced himself he doesn't) as he's accustomed to the masculine ones and neither wants or feels the need to put the effort in to explain himself-he doesn't like talking to people as is, let alone about something that brings up so many bad memories for him

"Are you a boy or a girl?" "I'm a puppet."

Deidara has figured it out though(I head canon him as nonbinary as well, so he recognizes the signs) and makes sure to only use they/them or gender neutral pronouns when speaking about his danna. Despite this, no other members have put two and two together yet (Sasori never addresses this, but a very small, deep down part of him respects Deidara just a teeny tiny little bit for it)

Trauma:

Maybe I'm projecting(I'm probably projecting) but I get big childhood sexual assault vibes from our puppeteer

But the signs are all there: severe switch in personality in childhood(this is ascribed to his parents death, but I feel like there's more to it than that), extreme trust issues(especially in regard to his caregiver), fixation on control, escapism through puppetry as a coping mechanism, depression, self isolation/fear of intimacy, social withdrawl/inability to relate to his peers, disconnect from his body, disconnection from reality(viewing puppets as people), etc.

And while yes, all of these can be attributed to other mental illness, the shock of his parents death, or Chiyo's neglect, this is just the conclusion I'm drawn to. Mental illness, childhood sexual trauma, and neglect are all very closely entwined and complicated, and many signs and symptoms can bleed into each other.

And it breaks my heart to think about.

Maybe sweet little Sasori was being abused by a babysitter his grandmother left him with while she performed council duties when his parents were away.

And maybe Sasori didn't know how to tell her. Maybe she was too busy to notice the signs. Or maybe Chiyo just wouldn't listen at all.

And maybe part of his eagerness for the return of his parents was so that he would no longer have to be around his abuser, and that just made the news of their deaths hit him that much harder

No one was going to save him. No one was going to help him. No one was even going to listen.

So why the fuck should he trust anyone

Mental Illness:

Whether genetic or as a result of abuse and neglect, we know Sasori has some issues

@evartandadam has done some fantastic character analysis(and amazing art!) here here here and here that you should check out if you haven't already

But when I think about what it would take for a person to say "fuck my physical form," the Big Three are what come to mind; Anxiety Disorder, OCD, and PTSD

Again, this could stem from any number of places

Sasori is a brilliant mind, and it would absolutely infuriate him to be able to see and recognize that his anxiety had no roots in logic, but still be able to do nothing to combat it

Random panic attacks would plague him, (which is extremely dangerous as a ninja, so he would have to repress repress repress), along with anxiety attacks from triggers to his past trauma and triggers to his OCD(which I'll get to)

This feeling of having no control over himself would cause him extreme distress, and would contribute heavily to him wanting to escape his own body

Along with his anxiety disorder is OCD, mainly in the forms of Rumination/Intrusive Thoughts:

Ruminations on death and art and the value of human life and his own mortality, during which he becomes incredibly withdrawn into himself and detached, always ending up frustrated when his thoughts ultimately lead to no satisfactory conclusions

I feel the intrusive thoughts would also manifest in hyper awareness of his body, such as fixating on his breathing and salivation, which he deeply hoped to escape with his transformation, and only added to his feeling of disgust with his body

These obsessive tendencies allowed for his fixation on solving his problems through puppetry to blossom

And, of course, all ninjas have PTSD, at least mildly, and with Sasori having been such a sweet, sensitive boy, the Sand's harsh methods would have utterly fucked his mind, especially coupled with his other disorders and trauma

All in all, Sasori is a minefield of issues, all of which contributed to a severe disgust with people/society and extreme self reliance, leading him to the drastic decision to remove himself as far as possible from his humanity

#am i projecting?#probably #but i dont care #akasuna no sasori #can i even tag this as character analysis?#idk #but im gonna #character analysis #tw #tw csa #tw anxeity #tw ocd #tw ptsd #head canon #naruto #naruto shippuden #akastuki #sasori #sasori head canons

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