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hvenart · 2 months

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Since Young Royals is over I wanted to take a look at some characters and kinda explain how I interpret them as people. (this is hella long but I’m mostly praising the show and how they handled things cus I’m an optimistic girl who loves life)

First of all you have the students of Hillerska. Hated them.

Genuinely cannot stand most of them and I gotta be honest, I was cheering for the school to close down. The toxicity and pure classism that radiates of that school is sickening but I’m afraid not unrealistic. As Willhelm said it’s in the walls of that place, it’s impossible to get it out. Everyone in Hillerska loves to pretend everything is fine. As Wilhelm said EVERYONE IS FAKE. Not just Hillerska but the monarchy and that entire system is too. While there are most likely very close friendships in the school it seems like nobody really knows or tries to understand each other. They refuse to acknowledge the fundamental problems of the school and instead party and just see the school closing as a sad thing.

Vincent is a perfect example of that. I love how they showed that queerness never was a problem for him. Vincent was fine with Nils being queer cus it doesn’t directly effect the system. Simon being a socialist who can possibly talk about the issues of the school was. I also think that he sees August purely as his role. He sees him as a party animal and having connections to the royal family. That’s the role he fulfills so he’s confused as to why he wants to be more than that because position wise he’s in a perfect situation. Him not knowing what August wants as a person and not knowing his best friend was queer just shows to me how little they know each other. How superficial their friendship is.

Nils is interesting. He’s queer and him being a person of Color all give him an interesting position in the whole system. He probably has a little more empathy and is a little less out of touch than his friends (ex. he is the first person to talk about how fucked up their initiation was) but he chooses to ignore it. I think that for him the pros outweigh the cons because at the end of the day he’s still rich and at the top of the foodchain at hillerska so it makes sense that he has no desire to change anything. Which brings me to why I LOVE felice.

Felice is by far my favourite character (Simon is a close second). She very much could turn a blind eye to everything and be like everyone else but she doesn’t want to anymore. I think being a black girl in Hillerska gave her more sympathy and understanding of the problems but I think even then she could’ve dealt with it like Nils because lets be honest racism is everywhere. But she realises if it’s already this bad for her she can’t imagine how it is for the people of the lower class. It made her see how fucked the hierarchy is and realise how deep it is engraved in the school. She realises that not even her best friends want to truly understand her struggles because it’s awkward for them (I said in another post her friends weren’t as bad as Vincent but honestly they’re just as bad). That realisation made her not wanna go to New York. She doesn’t wanna ignore her problems like everyone else but face them head on and goes to Sara. The one person who at the end wasn’t fake to her.

Im absolutely in love with Sara and Felice’s relationship. They kinda parallel Simon and Wilhelm in a way because Sara was the first truly honest person in Felice’s life just like Simon was to Willhelm although Felice and Sara are the platonic version of that (and while I loved that it portrayed the importance of friendship, my lesbian ass was really wishing they would’ve kissed like the TENSION but that’s just me). I also think that’s why the betrayal of her with August was so painful. She couldn’t care less about August, she cared about the fact that the one person she thought she always could rely on did that to her.

I also loved Sara this season. She’s a very flawed person yes but you could always tell her apologies were sincere. You could tell she had strong feelings for August but she was able to put Felice’s, Simon’s and most importantly her own feelings first. I was really scared they were gonna make her and August get back together in the end (especially with the conversation about giving people second chances in reference to her dad being also possibly about August) but they made sure to stick with her character development.

That brings me to August. He’s a really interesting character to me and I never know how to feel about him. He has done some horrible shit and at first I wanted him to suffer or do something big to try to make things right and I didn’t like how he never truly got his karma but I like how open they left his character. He obviously has some issues (eating disorder, trauma from his initiation,…) but he doesn’t ever delve deeper into them. He acknowledges the things he does and is obviously very sorry but just like the rest of the people in Hillerska and the Monarchy he ignores the causes of it. He never acknowledges his eating disorder. He’s probably aware that he has a problem (cus Simon pointed it out) but ignores it. He ignores the reasoning Sara gives for them not working out and gives her solutions that in the grand scheme will not change things. He still has huge respect for Eric despite what he did to him and the fact that it clearly left lasting traumas and just brushes it off. He longs for the Crown Prince role not even thinking about the harm that it can cause him. I said that he didn’t get karma but that’s not true. I think that the Crown Prince title is a curse and even if Wilhelm didn’t mean it that way, I think he got his final karma at the end by passing that curse down to him.

I love how they handled Wilhelm and Simon. Wilhelm had just like the rest of Hillerska and the monarchy the tendency to ignore things. Simon was the one who had to give him a wake up call and break things off. Simon forced him to face reality. He didn’t understand why Simon saw the title of Crown Prince as such a curse. Everyone ( ex. His mother) around him kept saying how much of a privilege it was that he never took a step back to question if it really was such an honour. His mothers words were so deeply engraved into him that it took him a while to finally be able to hear Simon. Simon wasn’t the reason why he didn’t want to be the Crown Prince, he just made him realise he never wanted any of this in the first place. It was never about Simon it was the fact that Wilhelm as a person was never really for the Monarchy. He loves his mother and the connection to his brother but he finally was able to let it go. He knows his brother still would’ve loved him but the perfect image of his brother the Crown Prince is gone. I don’t think he’s ever gonna forgive August but he has let it go and given him the title he so desperately wanted. His hatred towards him is not strong enough to keep the title of Crown Prince. In the relationship he was the one who needed to change. Sure Simon also went through growth and had to have a lot of understanding but it was Wilhelm who had to realise his core teachings and the way he thought of life were very flawed. He had to be his own person outside of the system that held him down so desperately. And even the mother understands that. She will always be part of the monarchy but she acknowledges that it nearly destroyed her and realises that she doesn’t want that to happen to her son and lets him go.

Hillerska, the monarchy and the classist hierarchy is not gonna change. But some people can. That’s why I think in the end there was no song about revolution. They didn’t have one. Sara, Felice, Wilhelm and Simon were the ones who truly got away from everything. They were able to get away from the schackles of the system and leave it behind. Even if Hillerska did reopen I doubt they would go back. They didn’t revolutionise anything other then themselves. There wasn’t a revolution but an evolution of themselves.

I think that’s a beautiful message. You can’t always change the bad things around you but you can change the things about yourself that were caused by the bad things around you. You can do and be better even when the world isn’t.

#young royals #young royals season three spoilers #young royals season three #young royals season 3 #yr3 #prince wilhelm #wilhelm x simon #simon eriksson #ignore the fact that in the last posts I spelled Wilhelms name wrong multiple times #yr s3 spoilers #also WTF happened to my man Alexander #he was there but didn’t say a SINGLE thing the whole season #other characters also didn’t speak anymore but I was most interested in his thoughts about all of this and Hillerska #MAYBE IT WAS ALEXANDER WHO SPILLED #idk man it’s 1 am I’m tired as hell #I love this show 10/10 #also love the actors #i need to go to sleep

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sugaroto · 1 year

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Ok you know what's kinda funny about "Jackson's Diary", or rather "plot twist-y"?

So, ok, imma be honest, when I started the comic I thought it was bl or lgbt or something. Be it the art or the description or the fact that everything I read is gay, I thought this was some kind of enemies to lovers/as magic stuff is going on around the school or something

I really thought the 2 mains were gonna end up together

And I wasn't the only one who thought that cause a lot of the comments were talking about it

But no. Soon you realize they're all very straight, exer is still in love with his ex girlfriend and Jackson kinda gets in a love triangle with exer's ex and the girl exer bullied last year. Also it's set in like- the 80s? Soo. They probably don't know what gay is. (Or they ignore it yknow)

But....

"Wasn't David bi in the canvas version?" said the comments "Yeah he was I think he liked Exer"

So then I'm trying to figure out if he's bi, and some chapters later he's literally making heart eyes around exer but like, in the background

And he's not that important at the time so I'm like oh ok great he's the comedic relief stereotypical gay character?

And exer is like... straight and in love with David's twin sister so nothing will happen right?

Jokes on me

Like 100 chapters later and this is Exer's reaction to David saying they're friends

The gay panic

Had me fooled there honestly

Also ok, I know my post is focused around the gay romance here, but like the comic is really interesting I do recommend it

Jackson goes to a new school and he is the only one who can see some kind of "green magic" messing around with his daily life

Shit happens, he makes friends, he gets into love triangles as I mentioned before (not for that long, thankfully) he gets into fights and makes new friends again

The characters are all very interesting, I was gonna say nice, but then realized half of them are assholes, currently it seems like they're trying to be better people tho

And even though it's set in the 80s it seems most of the main characters were accepting of the lgbt ones (well ok so far 2 people know about it so yknow, ) the only assholes were some bullies literally called Rick and Marty who used gay as a slur or something like 50 chapters ago

Well, and I can't really say anything much without spoiling more, I've already talked enough about their sexualities I'm not telling you what's happening with the green stuff

#some background checks on the characters #Jackson just moved back here and lives with his foster family his tía and tío(aunt&uncle) along with Ronald some Russian guy who also lives #with them but i dont remember where he came from? like?is that some kind of Erasmus? foster? idk i forgot. He doesn’t speak much. BUT WHEN #HE DOES. that little κατινα knows too much. anyways. then we've got exer who lives with his dad and hes the popular guy at school #his best friend david who lives with dad and then there's David's twin- Brenda who lives with their mom #and Pamela who used to be friends with brenda but shit happened #in most recent chapters we met new characters like Timothy Ken and Lola? help i forgot her name #wait was his name ken or kev #whatever the other guy is named Timothy i know that #those 3 became close friends at detention. they've been there since like- last year #they did shit. wasn't their fault. i mean ok yeah it was- but it was an accident you know? they're good kids #oh there's also a cat named Lucy-fuurrr #and i need to go to sleep #jackson's diary #webtoon #comic #sugarenia talks #sugarenia thoughts

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puzzledemigod · 7 months

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So let me get this right

Edgeworth had a quarter of life crisis, went to Europe to find himself, realised Phoenix gave his life meaning, and came back ready to confess.

Meanwhile Phoenix, who used to openly admire, be worried about and even give excuses to Edgeworth even when he was kinda mean, was so personally offended by how much it hurt him to think he was dead that when he came back Phoenix completely shut down every good emotion he felt towards him and started acting like a petty teenager with a grudge.

And now Edgeworth is the one reaching out and questioning his morality and acting hurt when Phoenix is mean to him. Interesting.

#and by interesting i mean i am going insane #worthwright #narumitsu #i'm still testing out what names feel less weird to use btw miles is weird and wright too but idk if using a first and a surname is as well #also. i was so pleasantly surprised by how emotionally mature phoenix was in the first game #and in this one he just startes accusing edgeworth of being evil all the time like?? he was way less understanding before #theonly explanation is that he mourned edgeworth like a lot and to protect himself from feeling all that he pretended he didn't #care actually because edgeworth was all those things people said he was (heartless and forged evidence anddid anything to win a trial) even #if he has actually helped Phoenix to get to the truth a lot of times before despite going against his own professional interests #he's treating him as if he's manfred von karma and not the one who phoenix himself protected against the guy #a bit disappointing tbh so i have to read it like that and not that he actually forgot all that; he only started believing in those things #he told himself to hurt less and now he's too tangled up to listen to what edgeworth is saying and doing #besides that: i'm SO GLAD he got an actually guilty client at last!! that's part of being a defense lawyer and now he can feel #that conflict edgeworth feels everytime he has to balamce doing his job with getting to the truth. also i want to see an edgeworth W #my babygirl needs it #“ace attorney”

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anotherpapercut · 7 months

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I know several people who like LOVE seasons 5-7 (11th doctors run) and think the storylines and moffats writing are brilliant and I don't get it!!! what am I missing??? why does literally every single episode have the exact same stakes: Rory/Amy/the doctor is dead. forever. so dead. but wait!!! what if they aren't!!! why do so many of the explanations for why they're not actually dead feel so rushed like they were added at the last minute!! why does every single queer character act kind of weird and awkward about being queer!! why does the doctor casually say that women are inferior when no one's around!!! what the fuck!! hello!!!

#why is rory continuously proving himself as the Only Man To Ever Exist only for the characters/narrative to continuously imply hes lesser #amy tries to kiss the doctor?? at her wedding??????#when amy is stuck for 36 years why is she like i forgot how much rory loved me?? GIRL HE WAITED 1000 YEARS FOR YOU???? WHAT????#he is CONSTANTLY the butt of the joke despite being unequivocally without a doubt the best character from this era #what the fuck was up with river being their kid #THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY???? WHAT?? THAT SHIT WAS WEIRD RIGHT???#does anyone else find it annoying that moffat changed the opening theme and the tardis and the sonic and the doctor ALLLL at once #and then retconned the entire storyline the early seasons are based off of??#WHY IS THE DOCTOR SO GODDAMN ANNOYING?? LIKE SO MUCH MORE ANNOYING THAN THE OTHERS #and fucking sexist!!! so sexist!!!#anyone remember the characters who were like 'were the short fat and tall skinny gay men why do we need names' LIKE HUH???????#gay people still have names steven 😭#i feel like im going insane bc i have no one else to talk to abt it until my partner catches up #but you guys still think these seasons kinda suck right? like coming off of martha and DONNA and her AMAZING storyline #these just kinda pale in comparison right??????#the last centurion is probably the last really good plot of that era imo. none of the other plots come close to having an ending that cool #like rivers story couldve been amazing and then it was just uh. kinda weird. a bit confusing IDK #i dont want to be a dick when talking to people and like shit on smth they love but i genuinely have a hard time #finding kind things to say abt a lot of this era #also and this might just be me but i do not like amy and clara v much 😭 theyre so fuckin mean and not even funny #why were martha donna and rose sooooo well written and they all have rich backstories. we know their fuckin families!!#literally its never even fully explained what the fuck happened to amys parents 😩😩 they just move on. the only friend of theirs #ever shown is fucking river??? as a kid??#am i the only one who found all thay confusing

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wayfinderships · 23 days

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Oh yeah fun fact about S.anji/Panchi, one the two eventually get. Y'know. 💍. The two decide to create a new last name for the two of them bc they both hate their own last name <3 I haven't decided on what said last name it but I think it'd have to do with the sea somehow

#pan gushes #f/o: 🍳#I don't think I need to explain why S.anji hates being called V.insmoke S.anji and I refuse to call him that. he's just S.anji #And well...My s/i also has their reasons for not liking their own last name and they also only are referred to as Panchi #So it only seemed fair that instead of forcing the two to keep their last names that they make one up for themselves #Idk I personally think it's sweet #There's so much about these two that make me go AFKSBFJDJF But this is just something I wanted to share real quick <3

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boltgunkiller-archive · 4 months

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i find it damn near impossible to get mad at santana’s behavior in 3x06 and 3x07 because i genuinely do think she had the right to be lashing out at everybody. sue me idk

#idgaf if she was mean to kurt and blaine when they were “trying to help” in IKAG #they were the first performance & santana was put under the spotlight by the guy who fully outed her to the ENTIRE STATE OF OHIO & now she #-was expected to be just happy and jolly about some bullshit lady music week to celebrate women as if that has anything to do with wtf just #-happened to her by finn’s hands & of course she was upset because she was only back in the new directions because finn basically #-blackmailed her into rejoining like hello!!! so of course she was snippy with them… and tbh i don’t even think she was being that mean.#i think she’d have reason to be even MEANER actually. that reaction of hers was completely reasonable. and honestly it must’ve hurt seeing #-two people who are meant to Get what it’s like.. participate in that? especially when the last thing she wants is her sexuality that she’s #-still very insecure with Being broadcasted. to the whole damn club. it’s already about to be shown to all of ohio with names addresses #-details about her whole personal life etc like she really didn’t need that spotlight right then she needed to have space and love and #-support… none of which she got.#also the glee writers tend to make a character do a bad thing and then have another character do an INFINITELY WORSE THING #and then they’re like “oh but. the first character was being so mean. this absolutely deplorable and wayyyy too far reaction is definitely #-justified now because that was just so mean of the first character ugh!” and basically spins what happened into showing the first characte #-as the most evil person alive??? as if that’s even remotely true.??? and yes this is about santana cause they do this w her #and quinn. a LOTTTT. like a LOT. rn i’m talking ab santana though so i won’t cover quinn sorry fabrayers… one day!#like yes santana was being mean sure whatever. but finn didn’t have an excuse IDGAF what the hell anybody says about the body shaming stuff #it was mean. yes that’s true. but i don’t think you understand how different those two things are #they’re both bad but the outing is infinitely more despicable and personal and filled with malice and it’s so much more endangering in a wa #-that can’t even be compared to the dangers of body shaming you know. like they’re completely different and the outing thing is just too #-personal and Wrong like. idk. just get that through ur head they’re both so different and finn went way too far and personal. he could’ve #-just mocked her looks if he really wanted to get back at her. mocked ANYTHING else. but he chose the worst thing you could do to somebody #who is scared and in the closet and hurting #also yes santana’s written to be rude a lot of the time but her degree of rudeness in those episodes was Overplayed and def not in characte #like it didn’t feel much like santana’s brand of meanness it was 100% the writers trying to justify finn more because they continued to #-paint finn as the good guy who chose the high road… when that couldn’t be further from the truth thanks. he didn’t choose the high road he #-completely blackmailed santana and used her to make him look good basically. so you can’t change my mind on that Def being a writer issue #and just them Hating Women. especially santana. thanks.#also this is all coming from somebody who loves finn. so. 🤣#i fuckingggg hate seeing people say santana was mean and had no right to be doing all of that in those eps.. BITCH YES SHE DID #like in other eps sure (<- nuanced topic/take) but this one? No. she was justified IDGAF. should’ve been meaner

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rats-and-robots · 3 months

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Hi I'm info dumping about my RT, Garion and his whole arc in the game.

Um. This is long as hell.

TL;DR: Garion von Valancius is a buff theater kid cyborg who be gay, do crime, and has an eldritch god in his head. He was taken to Commoragh before the game, met an OP new bestie and escaped. Oh yeah, and then the game happens and he falls in love with a traitor and then a loser dark space elf.

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Garion was born on a very, very hot Forge World, one that lived up to the title of a 'forge'; Metals from other worlds sent to the world to be refined in the world's ever-erupting heats. Garion worked with much of this and has numerous burns and heat-proof augments, including his left arm and lower legs. He learned and sung hundreds of working songs and tech-hymns his entire life.

The presence of tech-priests here was minimal by their standards, only enough to maintain the machines which worked the beating metals and to keep the workers in line.

Because of this, crime is readily common, and Garion managed to claw his way up the ranks. His use of the songs they sang as code became his calling card. His sudden rise was due mostly to strange curling whispers deep in his mind that advised him with a soft smile. He ended up in what squalor passed for a life of leisure among the billowing fires and churning magma. His work quotas met by those beneath him as he worked, instead, by maintaining a steady ebb and flow of stimulants and food to keep a large measure of the planet under his control. Because his quotas were met, he went under the radar for a very, very long time.

Those who sought to join his close ranks were tested with one-on-one fights with the crime lord himself. Whoever won didn't matter, and he was not ashamed by losses. Rather he was testing their compatibility with him in battle. Would they dance with blades and bullets with him or simply stumble around him?

His life was... well, not good, but as good as it got. He was, and still is, more devoted to the Omnissiah than the God-Emperor and thanked the Machine Spirits regularly for his success, little as it was... Until a drukhari raid on their planet ripped everything out from beneath him.

They captured many, and Garion with them. The Wyches took him and a number of his personal council, all heavily augmented fighters who killed many in the raid, and pitted them against beast after beast in the arena, only their songs keeping them... somewhat sane, driving them deep into Garion's subconscious. During this time, he learned to speak some Eldarian by listening and watching, though it was very broken and brutish until much later. He listened to the songs of torment and excess and committed some of those to memory as well, learning more of their language as some Drukhari tauntingly corrected him when he remembered wrong. For a short time--at least, it seemed that way--the small group were a favorite plaything of the arena. But they wouldn't last long. One by one they fell around him. Soon enough, he was alone, only his working songs, the mad discordance of the drukhari song, and the voice in his head to keep him company. The soft whispering and smiles had become cackling screams and grins filled with blood-stained teeth here.

It was clear the Wyches were bored of him, and placed him against a disgraced incubus warrior and some beast they were both clearly fated to finally die against. Farris, the incubus, already ashamed and beaten down with the terror of facing down the throat of Slaanesh as much as the throat of the beast before them, agreed to fight alongside the Crime Lord, not against them both.

It was not through some luck, nor some hidden skill, nor of Garion's doing that they broke the beast's limbs and gutted it. No, it was Something else that turned the hand of fate with a purposeful touch. It was the same Something that laughed and grinned and spat in his head.

It was through this same Something, through this same grinning beast, that he would be one of the very, very few to flee the blackened city, a disjunction cracking through it in his wake. To think of what happened still makes the now-Lord Commander ill. The burn on his face shimmers faintly with the horrid purple of the Warp that caused it. His throat is forever raw and gravelled from his fevered song.

Farris remained with him, rationalizing that Garion had paid him higher than any Archon could have ever offered. Their small ship managed to limp them back to Garion's home planet, as torn that it was. Unfortunately it was only barely clinging to life. With Farris's help and the decrepit state of the Forge World, he had no struggle in the wake of Commoragh to regain his standing... But his following reign was far more... Iron fisted than before.

Farris was augmented by the corrupt tech-priests that Garion managed to regain command of in return for being more properly taught the Eldarian language. Farris, the terrifying former Incubus that he was, was allowed to Feast upon Garion's enemies and soon enough all of the Forge World was under his heel. It began an upward swing in prosperity, with Garion controlling from the shadows and Farris even deeper in the shade than he.

Garion did not participate in Farris's feasts, but understood the man's need for them, until Farris would find a new way to fight off Slaanesh's draining.

Farris turned to worship of the Omnissiah as the tech-priests who altered him also taught him, turning to making his body metal, to tear from himself the weakness of flesh to keep himself from She-Who-Thirsts. Committing himself to the strength of metal. Farris became a horrifying sight to behold, augmented with black, twisted metal and, by the time Garion received summons from his distant relative, he appeared more machine than xenos. A Klaive-like weapon melded into his new body, becoming a literal extension of himself and adopting a cloaking mechanism to hide himself when the Imperium began to peer too closely at the planet and attempt to sniff out the corruption. Garion's sigil was engraved into his steel amidst prayers to the Omnissiah. He became Garion's shadow, always there, hardly noticed unless he was needed. Their bond was that of equals, but not the same way Garion would one day have with another Drukhari.

The summons from the Rogue Trader was fortuitous, indeed. Not long after his departure, with a small group of his most trusted with him, those he had left in charge crumpled under a sudden investigation. Farris's unique methods of... Conditioning... However, kept their mouths shut to the identity of their leader.

Garion would go on to claim his heritage, the Warrant. The warp jump of the prologue would catch Farris off guard while he was sent to scout out the flagship while Garion met with Theodora and his other companions forced to wait behind for the meeting. Farris had been certain that the Omnissiah would protect him and guard him, but once blood was spilled, the whispers of Slaanesh would send him into a shrieking fit throughout the entire prologue, separate from the rest and entirely out of control. Many, if not most, of the heretics' losses in the middle to lower decks were his doing, Farris hardly able to differentiate between friend and foe.

Garion's old companions were all killed in the fight, but Farris would remain, injured and holed up in the mechanical crevices of the ship during the first act. It was only the absence of his body when the dead were gathered that prompted Garion to track him down alone, to follow reports of a strange black beast in the battle now bleeding out oil in the lowest places. He knew the Drukhari would not be welcomed, and sought to save him.

But Garion was no tech-priest, and he did not know if he could trust the ones who were now under his command. He patched the wounds of the flesh, but the tech far escaped him, even if his knowledge was greater than that of most laymen. He ends up threatening one of the tech-priests to repair him, but the repair is only just enough to keep him standing.

Farris remains in the shadows for the majority of Acts 1 & 2. He acts as a Master of Whispers for Garion. This makes Garion seem nearly omnipresent on the ship, receiving information from Farris regularly. Abelard one time confronts him about this and this quote sticks in my head for this encounter;

"I have my own Master of Secrets, just as Theodora had. If everything goes as it needs to, you will never have to meet him. He answers to me, and that's all you need to know."

Idira knows something is around but doesn't know what. She suspects it has to do with whatever it is that makes her mind race with gnashing teeth and glinting grins around the Lord Commander. Cassia doesn't know what to name the colors that swirl around the Rogue Trader, but she does know she sees smears of red and black horror down the corridors of the ship, especially after the next warp-jump. Garion had, at that point, ordered him to seek out any heretics still remaining among their ranks and to target them when he needed to for warp-jumps.

On Dargonus, Garion meets Achilleas and absolutely falls hard for him. No one else on his mind, he courts the man shamelessly. To some end, he succeeds. Achilleas refuses to believe there's no ulterior motive, not from someone like a Rogue Trader, but he accepts the advances hesitantly.

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...at least until Marazhai ensnares him.

He's distant, suddenly, and Garion tries everything to pull him back in.

I still have to plot how the meeting between Marazhai and Garion goes, but I do know that;

-Garion is immediately a thirsty bitch,

-Yrliet gets markedly pissed off when the Rogue Trader speaks Eldar to Marazhai(he never did so for her),

-speaks it with drukhari slang,

-and is openly fucking flirting with him.

Not to mention Marzi's reaction, along with his group. Haven't decided if he will recognize Garion from the Arena or not. I'm gonna say 'not' for now, but boyyyy does he recognize Farris later on.

Garion is probably the first to notice Achilleas' disappearance and is insistent on finding him. Even when Yrliet tries to urge him to leave to the place she indicated, he refuses to leave until he knows what happened.

It's a shame he's the one who finds the body.

I'm still plotting out most of Commoragh/Act 3, but Garion is ROYALLY FUCKED UP because PTSD is a WHORE-ASS BITCH. Not to mention he literally just lost the love of his life and now he's basically in fucking *hell*.

Farris is there with them but disguised AS FUCK and trembling a bit himself. He may be strong in the realspace, but he is surrounded by those he knows want him dead. Pasqal is the first to meet Farris in Commoragh and to learn Garion's past in the hellish place with Farris, Garion willing to risk the Magos's wrath to get Farris in a proper state to fight with them. Thankfully, Pasqal is willing to work with them after the tech-eldar professes his loyalty to the Omnissiah and what he wishes to cast off his xenos shell for blessed metal.

Most of the inhabitants don't recognize Garion, so a lot of it will go as the game does, up until meeting Tervantias... The grinning thing in his head seems to adore him. Garion is thankful that the grinning thing is now not always in his head, but worries what it will do coiling in that xenos' head.

I'm writing the scene with Marazhai being given the offer to join Garion's side, but basically it ends with Garion speaking their language to taunt Aebys and telling her to send Sinisthora(spelling??) his regards.

Not long after... Yrliet confesses to how she betrayed them. And Garion would forgive her for just wanting to find her people... But she killed Achilleas. And for that, he puts a bullet in her brain.

The arenas scene are different, too. During the second, word has gotten out and the Wyches remember Garion, now. They send their worst against him. Even with Marazhai's betrayal, they get their asses kicked up until Garion whistles a tune, prompting Farris to finally lash out and reveal himself to protect his charge.

Marazhai's neurons are fucking activated seeing Garion's name 'branded' into the body of a fucking incubus(former or not!) for better or worse and he absolutely joins the retinue, much to the dismay of said retinue who are already a little fucked up about Garion recruiting one drukhari... Now there are two?

Thankfully, Garion is a royal asshole to Marazhai at this point, constantly driving in that he's only using him to get out, especially after Marazhai tells him how he tortured Achilleas. Marazhai was lucky to not get a bullet himself, but Marazhai is his ticket out--without causing another disjunction.

Once they get back, Farris revealed and the wounds now raw, Garion finally spills his secrets to Abelard and eventually the rest of his retinue. Pasqal is initially still very cautious about the tech-eldar's existence, but eventually this subsides as Farris is fairly dogmatic to the Omnissiah himself and openly lets Pasqal examine how the tech interacts with his very different body, giving Pasqal something to study. Once tensions about his existence relax, he hides himself less often and is allowed to work with the tech-priests, who agree to help him find a way to quell his panic during warp-jumps.

[The Agoraphobia one-shot takes place around this time, before the first warp-jump after Commoragh.]

Heinrix is the one to join Garion during that first warp-jump, and Garion almost let him get taken... But Marazhai is history to torture. He's also a touch more concerned about Farris, so he immediately sends Pasqal to go check on Farris the INSTANT he realizes he might also be in danger with servants of Slaanesh on-board. Pasqal, who is absorbed in how the former incubus's spirit has melded with his tech and reciting pleas to the Omnissiah, helps him fend off the servants of She-Who-Thirsts.

Marazhai is thrown into a cell, but Garion also, in the same breath, makes the order for a few prisoners and heretics to be sent there. (Later, Garion will eventually let him have the lower decks at some point. From that point onwards, he may even purchase prisoners from planets in the future if Marazhai runs low as people become terrified of that fate and rule-breaking/heresy drops significantly.) Garion is... Intrigued, to say the least, by Marazhai's reaction to being locked up.

Marazhai and Garion begin to play their game, Garion fully invested in making Marazhai his. The former dracon is initially confused that Garion reciprocates in his game, given the man's history with the would-be traitor and that Farris seems to be bonded to Garion. Yet, as he plays his little game with Garion, Farris is neither jealous nor angry about the other drukhari's actions. Marazhai is somewhat disappointed about this, having wanted to see how Garion kept his dog on a leash, even going so far as to taunt Farris for being so thoroughly owned.

Farris is the one to reveal that the nature of his possession is not the same as the game they play. He bears Garion's brand out of the debt he owes him, the following of a contract he is bound to for life, owned by way of payment. He is bound to Garion as any Incubus is bound to an Archon who pays them handsomely beyond measure. That is all. He has no part in their game, though he sees it for what it is.

It isn't until Marazhai kneels before him to ask him, properly, to feast with him, that Garion realizes he's caught some semblance of... feelings.

And the feast satiates the smiling thing in his head, flashing teeth falling back to soft smiles and maniacal laughter into gentle giggles. And he's not sure if he likes that or if it scares him more.

...in the mean time, well... his concern about where Tervantias has disappeared to is beginning to build up. Especially when the grinning thinks slips out of his mind. Rather than being happy for the silence, it fills him with dread.

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I haven't gotten much further in the playthrough I'm watching from here, but the thing in Garion's head is not Tzeentch, it's a homebrew deity I made, The Smiling One, back in the day when Warhammer was more like DnD in setting. I might go into detail about it later, but it's basically a god of creation, life, discovery... as well as necromancy, flesh crafting, and sacrifice, created by a massive world-spanning war. Here it's literally an invader in the world of 40k and the chaos gods do not like it being here. Especially Tzeentch, who previously had claim lm the von Valancius bloodline.

PS, I don't really care if certain things aren't lore-compliant, I'm shoving in two OCs besides Garion and The Smiling One would absolutely fuck with reality to make things go smoothly. (That said if you have suggestions I'm down to hear them!)

#ress talks #warhammer 40k #warhammer 40k: rogue trader #garion von valancius #marazhai aezyrraesh #farris needs a last name #potentially a new first name cause its not. drukhari. but idk #maybe he renamed himself #we'll see.

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