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lizard-queen-izzy · 1 month

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Thinking about Agnes Montague, Gerard Keay and Jonathan Sims. All chosen ones, in their own way. All intended by those who decided they were a chosen one to bring on the end of days. Or die trying. Or die while succeeding. They were only as valuable as their potential. Only worth what they could give.

And death was their only escape from those expectations.

Agnes had her church hang her.

Gerry died and then had Jon burn his page.

Jon had Martin kill him.

I just think there's something about them. Something about them all being doomed in such similar ways.

#tma #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #jon sims #gerard keay #gerry keay #agnes montague #agnes montague tma #jarchivist #savemejarchivist #characters doomed by the narrative my beloved #characters doomed by thise meant to care for them my beloved #characters who can't seem to win no matter how much they try my beloved #i am so so normal about them #i think about this a lot #i think about it all the time

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swordsandflowercrowns · 4 months

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I'm absolutely LIVING for the increase in luke and percy parallels, but something that's been rattling around my brain since I last listened to the lightning thief musical is that without luke, percy WOULD become him. I think that it's seeing the example of the cruelty and betrayal in luke that prevented percy from following the same path. he's horrified at how luke betrayed his friends, but luke believes he's doing it for the good of the demigods, just as percy would believe he's doing it for the good of his friends. percy is regularly disloyal to the gods by being loyal to his friends. he is saved from luke's fate simply because he came second and watched it unfold before him. I'm so sorry luke but you really are doomed by the narrative. you were always going to turn against the gods, even it it wasn't you. it had to happen.

#I am chewing glass #the good kid reprise in tlt musical my beloved #charlie bushnell's luke my beloved #pjo series my beloved #character doomed by the narrative my beloved #luke castellan #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo series #pjo tv show #pjo disney+#pjo spoilers

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nell0-0 · 17 days

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I just wanna see him be happy :,D

#linked universe #lu time #my art #when he's doomed by the narrative but also my comfort character #beloved blorbo

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pecan-jelly · 2 months

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Lucy Frostblade; She’s been dead since the beginning

#d&d #dimension 20 #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #d20 fanart #d20 fantasy high #d20 fhjy #lucy frostblade #characters who are doomed by the narrative my beloved #the green background is inspired by paintings of Ophelia #she is so Ophelia coded

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inamindfarfaraway · 5 months

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It's both funny and increasingly annoying to me when Hatchetfield fans associate Bill with Blinky, the way Paul is associated with Pokey and Ted with Tinky, but leave out Alice. She was there in Watcher World too! Her eyes were also purple! She was also controlled to try to kill her family! There is no way you can think of “Watcher World” without remembering Alice's equal involvement in Blinky's scheme.

I'd argue that she's a much better fit for Blinky's special human. He forms a grudge against her for insulting and disobeying him ("Fuck you, Blinky", "You'll be sorry"), just like Pokey's fixation on Paul because he defied him. She has a theme of watching going on herself, in contrast to Bill's naivety and obliviousness: being perceptive enough to notice the creepy, suspicious elements of Watcher World; trying to use observation as a tool to control Deb's behaviour, Blinky's modus operandi (though I personally like to believe that Deb didn't actually cheat and Blinky was tricking her); and having a connection with social media in general, which Blinky is thematically similar to and embodies the worst, most harmful elements of. She's deeply self-conscious, concerned with her reputation to her peers and has an anxiety disorder. The result that she's always worrying about how people see her and feels pressured to act in certain ways by that is exactly what Blinky wants in his prey, just like how Linda is Nibby's ideal hungry Honey Queen. She's interested in theatre and wants to be a playwright, to write shows where people will passively watch characters struggle and suffer for their own entertainment. Blinky creates live plays too - he even proudly says “Welcome to the show!" when the father and daughter's duel begins. She knows how to manipulate people by showing them what they want to see, giving her script draft a tragic ending for the queer main characters that's more likely to get it accepted in the discriminatory industry, when in fact she wants to change the ending once she has more power.

And she alone defeats her Lord in Black. Pokey assimilates Paul. Tinky breaks and owns Ted. Nibbly consumes Linda. Wiggly completely enslaves Linda and leads her to her death, and Wiley is unshakeable from his allegiance to him. But Alice? She overcomes the mind control, pushes through her panic attack, shoots Bliklotep in his all-seeing eye and goes home with her dad. And lets go of her independent issues with perception and image by putting down her phone.

She is so much like Blinky, and so much his perfect victim. Except that she wants happy endings. For the characters in her stories, for herself and for the people she loves. And she has the strength to make them come true. She's Blinky's equal and opposite. The hero to his villain. She can do everything he can, on a human scale, but she believes in happy endings.

I know the fandom likes the 'CCRP eldritch horrors’ favourites gang', and that is fun. But give Alice the respect she deserves! I see her as Blinky's Ted while Bill is his Pete; also a valued toy, but more by proxy than in his own right.

#she was literally doomed by the narrative in-universe and saved herself #and was saved by her dad #she is a PLAYWRIGHT THEATRE CHARACTER she can rewrite her own narrative!#she SHOT and escaped a lord in black #respect her!#alice woodward #my beloved #bill woodward #blinky #bliklotep #watcher world #nightmare time #hatchetfield

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multishipperbish · 4 months

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rotating the idea of a Jalph soulmate AU inside my head

but not a traditional fix-it soulmate AU where they find each other and immediately fall in love and all is well that goes well. What about that "first words are tattooed somewhere on their body" AU where Ralph has "Where's the man with the trumpet?" on his arm and Jack has "There's no man with a trumpet. Only me." on his leg.

What if they meet each other for the first time and they're friends. What if Jack betrays Ralph and they start hating the words on them. What if Ralph covers his arm with mud and Jack his leg with blood. They're hesitant to clean up when they're on the boat back home. During future confrontations their eyes wander and they meet gazes and just know what the other's thinking : what if we could have made it work?

It's the 1950s so obviously they're not thinking about being in a relationship. Maybe the media normalises platonic soulmates. Maybe not; maybe their parents told them they'd better have female soulmates or else. Maybe after their first meeting, Ralph looks at his arm every now and then and feels a deep discomfort in his stomach but he tells himself it's fine as long as they're on the island because nobody's going to bother them about it. Maybe Jack starts wearing longer pants after the island because his father found out and started hassling him about finding the girl who'd speak about a trumpet, however strange she may sound.

And maybe then they're back in school and undergoing therapy (probably not cause the 1950s were yikes about mental health but it'd nice to think about) they see their soulmarks and the feeling of longing from before the island comes back. "If only I could find them I'd be whole" turns to "If only I'd handled it better". They wish it could have worked. They wish they could have stayed friends. If only it had gone differently. Right person wrong time. Because if they're soulmates obviously their souls are going to feel like something's missing their whole lives now that they've found each other and they're apart, so add to that the PTSD and whatever else is going on inside their heads, the poor boys will not be having a good time.

Maybe Jack feels the pull of the hunt after the island (because I personally headcanon that he's lived pretty repressed beforehand due to his strict parents and the island gave him freedom he's never had before; the hunt was an amalgamation of all the stress that comes from having an overbearing successful Father with a capital F melting off his bones) AND the pull of the soul. Maybe he meets people with fair hair and the most gorgeous smile and he wants to vomit because he remembers the blood on his hands. Maybe Ralph is trying to socialise at school and he sees parts of Jack in everyone he meets. Maybe Ralph tells himself to shut up about his missing half, he doesn't have it that bad, just look at Simon and Piggy and the mulberry kid! at least he's not dead! (don't do that kids. that's a horrible coping mechanism. seek professional help) and still he goes to church and hears the choir and wonders if Jack still sings.

I dunno it's just an idea!! I am not done yapping about this. Will add on through reblogs if needed

#writing #my writing #it's more like #rambling #but fair enough #i dunno i saw a tumblr post about soulmate AUs earlier and the idea hasn't left my head #doomed yaoi #my beloved #as an aromantic person I have a complicated relationship with soulmate AUs #because usually they're interpreted as romantic #and like yeah! yippee!! that's often a good thing #but I also really like the idea of two characters cursed by the narrative together in a non-romantic way #stuck orbiting each other throughout their lives whether they like it or not #even through each other's romantic relationships #maybe their society normalises romantic soulmates and they feel pressure to become a couple but it doesn't work #lotf #lord of the flies #jack merridew #lotf ralph #jalph #if you couldn't tell i'm insane about them.#i need to think more about the other ships i like though.#ralmon rogermon jager. maurice i still need to find a proper suitor for because i don't get his character yet but it is coming.#piggy i just need to think about more often.#angst #ANGST I FORGOT TO TAG AS ANGST #I'M SO SORRY IF IT CAUGHT ANYONE OFF GUARD #jalph soulmate au

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chaotic-gender-fluid · 3 months

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LUKE AND PERCY FIGHTING THE SAME WAY.

they have the same issues with the gods

their arguements are so similar

and they are the ones changing things

he was his first friend at camp and he died on his birthday

they are cursed by the narrative to parallel each other

the oracle herself fated them to be intertwined

#i'm so normal about them #also I love them fighting #their arguments become physical and the EMOTION on their faces as they fight #THEY ARE SO INVESTED #and Luke recruiting instead of trying to kill him makes it all so much more powerful #percy jackson #pjo #rick riordan #pjo tv show #luke castellan #walker scobell #character doomed by the narrative my beloved #charlie bushnell's luke my beloved #chaotic ramblings in the ether

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scootersscooter · 4 months

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Oliver Mighty Med your strained relationship with goodness and deep seeded worry and concern about evil and not being seen as a worthy friend or hero in a time where that's all you want in order to avenge everyone you've ever held dear means the world TO ME

#guys i know this may look like a jackson jekyll blog on the surface AND IT IS #but oliver is the blorbo ever #this kid is doomed by the narrative in more ways than one #aghhhgghhg #he makes me violently ill #RAGGDHHDHDDF #i know this kid better than any showrunner for lref #oliver no last name my beloved #you didn't deserve any of the massive amounts of trauma you got on that disney xd show #you didn't deserve the character assassination that is lab rats elite force #this post is for my like 3 mighty ned mutuals #I'm gonna start blorbo posting about this kid so much this year #i need to rewatch this show again #lab rats elite force #mighty med #mm oliver #oliver mighty med #oliver lref #lref

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jewishcissiekj · 1 year

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Barbara Ann's entry in The DC Book of Pride...😭

Rereading WW year one this Shabbat bc EttaBarbDiana are so real and important to me

#dc comics #wonder woman #watch how hard I can CRY #Cheetah #The cheetah #barbara minerva #barbara ann minerva #Barbara ann #Etta candy #Wondercheetah #Ettabarb #Ettabarbdiana #SHE'S MY ANAKIN SKYWALKER YOU WOULDN'T GET IT #Characters who are doomed by the narrative my beloved #The ambiguity dc will always leave on the nature of her relationship with Diana I'm gonna cry #At least we know she did have feelings for Etta #Cloonrad you ate that one thing

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kai-nyktos · 4 months

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I’ve been having a habit of making the most heart-wrenching, homoerotic, doomed-by-the-narrative, brings-out-their-bests-and-their-worsts, horrible-flawed yet oh-so-deeply-in-love, I’d-sacrifice-the-world-a-million-times-over-for-you-to-smile-in-my-direction-but-you-want-me-dead-where-I-stand characters lately. And now I’m liking tnt duo art again

#oopsies #tntduo #tntblr #dsmp #original character #dnd #dnd characters #I’m also writing plays but we’ll see if those go anywhere #they’re constantly homoerotic and doomed by the narrative #I can’t help but make them suffer #tntduo my beloved you sent me down this path and I will leave flames and dust in my wake

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zoklaperzys · 10 months

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i saw a gifset of parallels of the northerns choosing robb and jon as their kings and i weep.

#━━ ✷ 〉 out of character / all i see is snow.#i might write an inner monologue of some of the scenes because i cry #robb and jon's relationship my beloved doomed by the narrative #brothers even in death

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nutcraxker · 5 months

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A DLC about history of Waloed Gang would be soo cool. I wanna full explanation about how Barnabas managed to convince Cid and how Cid decided to trust that doomed man (or did he look decent back then? Even the explanation about him literally filled with how he looked so scary) obviously an explanation of how Benedikta joined the gang would be soooo fantastic. The flashback was good but I think it'd be even better to have a whole explanation about her. Ohhh don't forget about how Sleipnir. Come on, yeah we know Sleipnir and Barnabas had spent lots of time together. But but but can we pleeeaseeee see him and Barnabas discussing how to destroy the world together and stuff? It'd be soo cool!!!

#Waloed gang is my favorite thing from this game #I love all of them equally #my beloved doomed by the narrative characters #final fantasy

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swordsandflowercrowns · 3 months

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luke is such an empathetic character because uncle rick just gives us a boy who's grown up feeling abandoned by his father, who he also deems responsible for essentially losing his mother. he loses one of his best friends because her very birth is seen as a mistake to the gods, and the very best zeus can do for her as she gives her life for her friends is to turn her into a tree. he becomes the best swordsman at camp, he successfully completes his quest, he's good, he's a good kid, and STILL he doesn't get so much as an acknowledgement from his father. he may be 19 during tlt but he has been a KID throughout all of this and he is desperate. of course he made the choices he did. it was ALWAYS going to happen.

#I SWEAR I am not trying to be a luke girlie #there's just so much narrative angst to chew on #there is no 'I could fix him' or 'I would join him'#no. you are the audience. he is doomed to follow this path and you are doomed to watch him and be unable to stop him.#character doomed by the narrative my beloved #charlie bushnell's luke my beloved #luke castellan #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo disney+#pjo tv show #pjo series #pjo spoilers

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therealcallmekd · 4 months

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"This is Chujin..."

wanted to try my hand at Ascii art again and had the perfect character to do so with! Funny scientist my beloved teehee

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Doomed by the narrative,,, i love him

#ascii art #ascii #uty #uty spoilers #undertale yellow spoilers #undertale yellow #undertale yellow chujin #uty chujin #me when whhe when scientist... ahahhha... i luv scientists <3 hehhahhah #JusticeInTheUnderground!#KD'sCrumbs

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viviennevermillion · 9 months

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*slides into your inbox because HSR requests are open*

Hey Vi! I was wondering if I could request some heacanons for Sampo, Blade, and your boy Luocha with a reader who likes to play with/run their hands through the boys hair? They all have such pretty hair and I want to play with it!

Anyway take your time of course, and I hope you're doing well! Please remember to take care of yourself!

playing with their hair

✧ ɴᴏᴛᴇꜱ: ryker, yayyy, thank you for sending in a request! you made me think about sampo and realize that he's the funniest fucking character in the entire game and so much fun to write for. i had a blast with his banner too, the song fits him so well 💀🩵

btw requests are open and if you guys would like to read more of my works, check my masterlist!

✧ ɴᴏᴡ ᴘʟᴀʏɪɴɢ: carried me with you — brandi carlile

✧ ᴄʜᴀʀᴀᴄᴛᴇʀꜱ: sampo, blade, luocha

✧ ᴡᴀʀɴɪɴɢꜱ: very slight angst in blade's (i'm so sorry, i'm trying, i promise)

Sampo loves when you play with his hair. He'd be 100% down for you trying ridiculous hairstyles on him but on a good day he'll put a pillow in your lap and puts his hands behind his head, sinking into the soft fabric. He closes his eyes when your fingertips start carding through his blue strands of hair. "This is the good life", he sighs and winks at you, "now all you'd need to do would be feeding me grapes like they do in the movies and things would be perfect." "Wait until I throw you off the couch", you shoot him a warning glare. "Hey, hey, I jest", he puts his hands up defensively and laughs.

"You know I'm lucky to have you", he takes your free hand into his and presses a kiss to your knuckles, "this is like we're straight out of a romantic piece of literature, don't you think?" You raised an eyebrow at him: "You're not exactly what I'd consider a romance novel protagonist."

He sighs. "True. I'm more like, the court jester who fell in love with the pretty royal heir", he reaches up to cup your cheek, caressing it gently with his fingertips. "And I love you for it", you laugh as he sits up to press a kiss to your lips. You bury your fingers in his hair whilst kissing back.

You take a deep breath and drift off into your own thoughts now that Sampo was quiet for a moment. A rare occurence, really.

As you enjoy this moment with your beloved, you think back to the chaos that was all over Belobog recently. "Hey, what do you think our friends from the Astral Express are doing now?", you wonder and Sampo sinks back into your lap again, resting his cheek against your stomach. "Maybe fighting a giant, strong lady with the help of a dragon, but what do I know?", he shrugs with a satisfied smile on his face. "Isn't it usually the other way around?", you raise an eyebrow. "It is, isn't it?", he puts a finger to his chin and chuckles.

You laugh and ruffle his hair. "You always have such an overactive imagination. You should write a book." "As much as I'd slay as an author, I'm just doomed by the narrative like the rest of us, darling."

Blade enjoys when you run your fingers through his hair. It's a sensation that momentarily distracts him from everything else that is going on in that busy, but tired mind of his; so it's well-appreciated.

He will not let you mess up his hair under any circumstance. Kafka calling him "Bladie", a terrible habit that rubbed off on you, was bad enough. He didn't need her and Silver Wolf to tease him about having a ponytail on top of his head with several braids going off from it, tied together with colorful hair ties.

Thankfully, you were sane enough not to attempt that.

But he does let you do a few nice hairstyles that look good on him; like a simple, long braid. He doesn't care for what he looks like after all these years of being alive but you seemed to find joy in it and it made his daily life easier sometimes to have his hair put together in a braid.

Sometimes when you sit behind him and braid his hair, you press a few teasing kisses to his neck. Unfortunately for his usually so serious demeanor, Blade is the most ticklish person you have ever met, so that's one of the only things that gets a laugh out of him; even if he didn't feel it emotionally. You brush a strand of his hair back, relishing in the sound he made so rarely; a slight tinge of sadness in your heart and a thought you didn't dare voice.

I wish I could see you laugh more... I'd do anything to make you happy.

He also lets you brush his hair every morning if you want to. His hair is so soft, as you have told him many times. He always wonders how something so simple could bring you so much joy; but he's glad that it does.

Luocha always takes good care of his hair; after all a professional appearance was important for a merchant. His hair is very soft and silky and you have a great time brushing and braiding it.

He teaches you how to do his signature hairstyle. It's quite difficult to do on his own so he appreciates that you're happy to help. This pretty much became a routine for the two of you in the morning.

Sometimes he'd try to get up at night to go to the bathroom and find you accidentally laying on his hair. He hisses an "ouch" under his breath, sometimes waking you up in the process. Once he's back in your arms, you massage his scalp and carefully run your fingers through his blond strands to make up for the painful accident.

In the morning, you tend to sit behind him and do his hair, often littering his neck and shoulders in the process. "Is this just an excuse for you to give me kisses?", he chuckles and shakes his head. "I suppose you caught me", you sigh with a smile on your face and Luocha turns his head to pull you into a deep kiss that catches you off guard. You quickly melt into the gesture, closing your eyes and noting how pleasant the taste of his lips is. You presume he applies lip balm in the morning before you do his hair but you never actually saw him do it.

When he gets home after a long day, depending on what hairstyle you did for him, his scalp hurts sometimes when you undo his braid so he loves to rest his head in your lap and have you ease brush your fingers through his hair.

#honkai star rail fluff #honkai star rail x reader #honkai star rail blade #blade x reader #blade x you #sampo x reader #sampo koski #sampo koski x reader #sampo x you #luocha x you #luocha fluff #luocha x reader #hsr luocha #luocha #sampo #hsr x reader #honkai star rail

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inbarfink · 8 months

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Okay, so here is my Thought…

It’s already being established that the majority of worlds in the AT Multiverse are born from wishes granted by Prismo. I mean, we know there are other types of alternative universes (Like Flapjack’s universe) - but Prismo’s exposition implies they are the exceptions and not the rule. And we already know the Wish that birthed Farmworld, and we even got a Word of God about Babyworld (a Wish made by BMO) but…

Was Winterworld also born from someone’s wish?

While first watching the episode, I was wondering if that was a universe born from Ice King’s wish to, like, make Princess Bubblegum madly in love with him or something. But after all of the reveals at the end of the episode and thinking about it a bit more - I feel like this is unlikely.

I mean for once, there is the question of how the ‘One Wish Per Person' rule works with the existence of a multiverse. Because we know our Simon also tried using his Prismo Wish

(And from their interactions in Episode 4 it seems like Prismo considers Ice King and Simon to be the same person, So a Wish made by Ice King would also count as the one Wish for Simon)

So like… if Ice King made a Wish with Prismo and then got teleported into Winterworld where his wish was granted and then like… a duplicate of him keeps going in Mainworld Ooo and that one’s actually the Simon we follow… would that Simon get his own Wish from Prismo? Or would the Winter King count as the separate Simon who didn’t waste his Wish yet? Finn has already used up his own Wish but his situation is kinda unique cause he, like, came back from being Farmworld Finn. I’m not sure about the rules here but I’m feeling like it shouldn’t work, Simon used up his one Wish failing to bring Betty back so that means he probably didn’t wish up Winterworld.

I don’t feel super-confident about that, but I feel a bit more sure of this next observation; Prismo says that the Wishes he grants, whatever he wants them to or not, always have some sort of a Monkey’s Paw or ironic twist thing going on. They never go quite right for the Wisher. And the Winter King was doing extremely well until our Free Radicals came along.

I mean… maybe the fact that Pre-Curse Simon would’ve been disgusted with the Winter King’s actions counts. Or maybe the implication is that with the Candy Queen’s recent ‘escalation’ he would’ve been killed sooner or later even without the Multiverse Trio’s intervention.

But… compared to how throughly and how quickly Farmworld went badly for Finn specifically- that honestly feels like a stretch. I think that if Winterworld was born from the Wish of any character - it was most likely Marceline.

She has all the motivation to Wish for Simon to have his memories and/or sanity back - and had it for the longest time out of all of his acquaintances. And if it was her Wish - then it sure as hell has gone extremely wrong for her.

The woman that she loves has been doomed to the same torturous existence Simon has been trapped in alongside her entire kingdom. And Simon might have his sanity and identity again, but this vile man who willingly and knowingly condemned PB to a life of suffering in his stead is so much farther away from the kindly father figure Marceline remembers than Ice King the crazy old Wizard ever was.

And then he also stole Marceline's most beloved personal possessions and like… probably killed her and definitely replaced her with an icy duplicate who is forever the child he wants her to be. If this Wish is some sort of Ironic Monkey's Paw to anyone, I think Marceline makes the most sense.

(I will give an honorable mention to Betty, because she also very much has the motivation and it is kinda weird we haven’t seen her try and save Simon with a Prismo wish. But I think that while, like, dying in the Mushroom War unmourned and unremembered by the man you did all of this for is a pretty miserable fate.... I still think that Marceline’s narrative fits the idea of cruel irony a lot better)

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