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Ohhhhhhhhhh MAJOR angst idea
When Ingo actually sees Emmet for the first time in The Underground, he runs away in a panic to process all the conflicting feelings and thoughts going through his head VERY suddenly with NO context, which makes Emmet think Ingo descended into The Underground on purpose. To get away from him.
Emmet gets captured (for a bit) because he enters the line of sight of Undyne who mistakes him for Ingo before very suddenly realizing that's a human that looks very much like Ingo but smiling creepily and shaking. After accidentally catching his attention and having a moment of "Ingo? What's with the wardrobe chaoh you are not Ingo", Emmet responds by slowly approaching her and having this interaction:
"You… know Ingo…?" Emmet says with his normal unnervingly flat voice, the smile on his face looking forced and trembling slightly as he takes another step towards Undyne, who has armed herself.
"Why has he been here so long? I have been searching for him for five long years. I finally saw him and he ran from me."
Another step.
"Does he hate me? Did he come down here to hide from me? Did he mention me at all? Did he mention his brother Emmet?"
Another step. Tears drip down his smiling face.
"Did he even once say anything about even having a twin? Has he pretended I do not exist? Does he really hate me that much?"
Another step.
"Would he really abandon us all so suddenly? Abandon Elesa? The other conductors? Our subway? His duties? Everything?"
Another step. Undyne's spear presses against Emmet's chest as he stares deliriously into her enraged and terrified face, a permanent smile still plastered on his own.
"… Me…?" he says, the flatness of his voice cracking as the slightest bit of real emotion squeaks through his voice, his throat tightening as tears run down his face faster.
"… Ingo's a human…?" Undyne asks, glaring at Emmet. "Well, I guess that actually would explain a lot."
Undyne says a lot more after that, but Emmet doesn't listen. That is to say, he can't listen. He's lost in his own mind as he is chained up and dragged off, wondering if his search was worth the heartbreak. He wonders if he really should have accepted Ingo as dead two years ago, so that he wouldn't have learned Ingo left on his own accord because he hated Emmet.
… Emmet… love you… brothers again…
It's a voice Emmet does not recognize echoing within his own head. He tries to clear away the rest of his thoughts and focus on it.
… He'll love you… I can make… his mind change…
He focuses as hard as he can on the voice, ignoring all other sounds and closing his eyes tightly to focus.
… Emmet… I will return to you the brother you remember… I will make him love you again… you will be brothers again…
He breathes quietly and shallowly to limit the sound.
… All you have to do is…
He holds his breath.
Dig.
#ns:tu#next stop: the underground#pokemon#undertale#pokemon x undertale au#pokemon emmet#undyne undertale#angst#important story part!#yes this is a 2am idea#me being able to get out some spoilers to get my brain to shut up about wanting to tell y'all much more spoiler-y things#I'm gonna make a master post putting this shit in chronological order one of these days#long post
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once again thinking about jason as duke’s robin. he’s ~4 years younger than jason, and that’s puts him at 8-12 during Jason’s time as robin. that’s prime time to get attached to your local kid vigilante before your own life goes downhill.
and if we try to keep duke’s meeting with bruce in zero year + duke’s age (so he can remember the meeting and hold that conversation with bruce), he has to be around 8. if he starts following batman through the news at that time because of the mess that just happened, the robin he sees is probably jason. I’ve literally connected the dots
#we are not of course keeping zero year itself. what a mess.#maybe smth very similar so it’s still the riddler causing mass chaos!#the titans so we actually keep the no robin physically present in the story part the same#look. if we want zero year convo we need to give bruce a robin at the time. it could be 17-18yr old who’s not even in gotham bc he’s with#by time tim shows up he’s already attached to jason#and then steph’s robin suddenly for a bit but only for a bit. and then tim comes back but he’s in bludhaven for a while#i do think duke would think steph is really cool tho. and they reasonably couldve met as civilians#and then duke’s busy bouncing around foster homes the streets and looking for his parents#i wanted to talk about how much i love it and the tags are just be working out a timeline for post crisis events & post flashpoint ones (an#some of duke’s important events are related to things which are no longer canon. such is life. let’s do our best based on ages)#duke thomas#jason todd
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can't believe garak went from 'hope you have fun following my little breadcrumb trail of maybe-truths doctor it builds character ;)' at the beginning of the show to '*sigh* fuck it here's the whole loaf. the entire fucked up bakery of my soul. if you somehow still wanna have sex with me after this you know where I am, yours in infinite longing etc.' in a stitch in time. has anyone ever been so pathetically horrifically enduringly down bad as garak is for julian (laudatory)
#that's some real lodestar simp stuff you've got going on garak and I'm so happy for you/sorry . I guess that's the thing about love#garashir#elim garak#star trek#star trek ds9#ds9#I take the same approach to 'a stitch in time' that I do to deacon's final story in fallout 4 -- I'm agnostic on if ALL details are true#but overall it's certainly *emotionally* truer than even the truth could be sort of situation. genuinely emotionally intimate finally.#which I think is the more important part#and part of that is being weapons grade longing material fjdskjafsa. off the pining scale.
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One thing I feel people miss about lord of the rings is that it’s sort of..........post-apocalyptic?
Like-- the world already ended, a long time ago, and the characters are surrounded by the ruins of dead countries. They spend most of their time journeying through places that are either abandoned (Moria) soon to be abandoned (Rivendell/Lorien) or half-destroyed and falling into decay (Rohan/Gondor.) The villains are creatures that Used to be Human; I feel like Lotr’s orcs/ringwraiths have more in common with zombies than they do with DnD-style orcs, because they’re a state that “normal” people enter when they’re corrupted by a supernatural force.
Even the Shire is surrounded by ruins-- the ruins of watchtowers, the ruins of the old Northern Kingdom, the ruined city near the Grey Havens. The people around there have an idiom “when the king comes back” that means the same thing as an idiom like “when pigs fly”-- “when a completely ridiculous improbable thing happens.” They’re so used to the disintegrated state of the world that the idea of a central government is fairy-tale-like and bizarre. They have their little mayors and thains; they don’t need anything else.
So yeah! I see people try to “modern-real-world- au” versions of Hobbiton by making it “a peaceful suburb” but to me, a modern au version of Hobbiton would be more like.......
You are a hobbit.
You don’t know much history, but you understand that there were Wars a long time ago that destroyed a great amount of life on earth.
You live in a little hole in the ground. You don’t know that long ago these holes used to be called “bunkers;” you decorate them with flowers.
When you want to say that something won’t happen, you’ll sarcastically say things “lol yeah SURE that will happen! And tomorrow pigs will fly, Parliament will come back into session, there will be a president in the White House, there will be a prime minister making speeches, and diplomats will intercede between all of them! ha! XD”
If you journey even a little outside of your home, you’ll find the ruins of old cities and skyscrapers. There are messages in the ruins that are written in languages you don’t speak. Human beings used to live here; they don’t anymore.
And you’re not supposed to leave the Shire because sometimes you’ll meet the things that used to be human, but aren’t anymore.
#lotr#overthinkinglotr#lord of the rings#anyway the setting is such an important part of the story ;-;
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i know a lot of people have mentioned this, but i’m just obsessed with the way taylor refused to sanitize herself on this album. she’s telling you everything. she got off to gross men whilst already in another relationship. she fell for the most obvious lies because she wanted to believe them. she was mad at anyone who tried to warn her. yes, she’s still mad at you for clutching your pearls and watching her like a circus animal btw. she’s having his baby—no she’s not! she just likes trolling. she does really want babies, though. like a lot. she felt like she’d been abducted by aliens and found cosmic love, but in reality, she was manic. and then he fucking ghosted her! and he didn’t even measure up in any measure of a man!!!!! and now she’s devastated by him and his predecessor! she feels like a wondrous prophet one day and the desperate victim of a curse the next. btw he knows how to ball and she knows aristotle. and fuck kim k! also man sex with certain men kinda fucked her up, but at least the writing that came from it defined her legacy. the manuscript isn’t hers anymore. she hopes this insane ass manuscript won’t have to be hers, either! free her of these stories.
#looooove this album like damn no one forced her to talk about Matty but she risked the criticism#bc it’s an important part of the story#what she said about waolom#and the importance of honesty at times when you can’t right the ship and feel intensely angry#sooo inches resting#ttpd#who’s afraid of little old me
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splatoon twt just dropped this what the fuck?!?!!?!!!!!
#zeno's art#is what i would say if i was not a liar!#splatoon#splatoon 2#splatoon 3#agent 3#agent 4#agent 8#neo agent 3#this was just stylisation practice. inspos were the powerpuff girls clone high + psychonauts#i wont go into much detail about anything but the most important part for me was the head shapes#and just pushing stylisation up to 11. all in all im pretty proud#anyway if splatoon cartoon was real i think they should have a season for each agent where theyre juggling story mode business and inksports#and maybe have some episodes on idols and splatbands. guys omg wait what if i made a splatoon cartoon on my own? all i need is $500000 ish
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Feyre's selective hearing is the origin of my villain arc.
#my art#acotar#acotar fanart#rhysand#feyre archeron#feysand#acomaf#anti feyre#anti sjm#rhys killed his tamily too feyre!#that was a pretty important part of that story!#he melted his brother's brains!#his dad killed tamlin's mom even tho he promised him he wouldn't#wow what are the odds tamlin went through something similar when rhys's mom and sister got killed#rhys wasn't there#AND NO ONE BOTHERS TO ASK HIM#srsly tho i get it she's fully on board the tamlin hate train at this point#but the way she twists every little thing the man does to be him being an asshole on purpose is just >_>#tamlin did nothing wrong ever in his life
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various doodles i did while reading some enstars events
#enstars#shu itsuki#mika kagehira#<-- since these are parts of stories that involve them after all#i do dislike eichi just a bit but sometimes he says some funny things like the second to last part that makes me laugh way too much#anyway shoutout to everyone pointing out how mika is very important to shu despite them not acknowledging it in the timeline i'm in#doodles
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there's something about the way people talk about john gaius (incl the way the author writes him) that is like. so absent of any connection to te ao māori that it's really discomforting. like even in posts that acknowledge him as not being white, they still talk about him like a white, american leftist guy in a way that makes it clear people just AREN'T perceiving him as a māori man from aotearoa.
and it's just really serves to hammer home how powerful and pervasive whiteness and american hegemony is. because TLT is probably the single most Kiwi series in years to explode on the global stage, and all the things i find fraught about it as a pākehā woman reading a series by a pākehā author are illegible to a greater fandom of americans discoursing about whether or not memes are a valid way of portraying queer love.
idk the part of my brain that lights up every time i see a capital Z printed somewhere because of the New Zealand Mentioned??? instinct will always be proud of these books and muir. but i find myself caught in this midpoint of excitement and validation over my culture finding a place on the global stage, frustration at how kiwi humour and means of conveying emotion is misinterpreted or declared facile by an international audience, frustrated also by how that international audience runs the characters in this book through a filter of american whiteness before it bothers to interpret them, and ESPECIALLY frustrated by how muir has done a pretty middling job of portraying te ao māori and the māoriness of her characters, but tht conversation doesn't circulate in the same way* because a big part of the audience doesn't even realise the conversation is there to be had.
which is not to say that muir has done a huge glaring racism that non-kiwis haven't noticed or anything, but rather that there are very definitely things that she has done well, things that she has done poorly, things that she didn't think about in the first book that she has tacked on or expanded upon in the later books, that are all worthy of discussion and critique that can't happen when the popular posts that float past my dash are about how this indigenous man is 'guy who won't shut up about having gone to oxford'
*to be clear here, i'm not saying these conversations have never happened, just that in terms of like, ambient posts that float round my very dykey dash, the discussions and meta that circulate on this the lesbian social media, are overwhelmingly stripped of any connection to aotearoa in general, let alone te ao māori in specific. and because of the nature of american internet hegemony this just,,,isn't noticed, because how does a fish know it's in the ocean u know? i have seen discussions along these lines come up, and it's there if i specifically go looking for it, but it's not present in the bulk of tlt content that has its own circulatory life and i jut find that grim and a part of why the fandom is difficult to engage with.
#tlt#the locked tomb#i don't really have an answer lmao this is more#an expression of frustration and discomfort#over the way posts about john gaius seem to have very little connection to the background muir actually gave him#like you cant describe him as an educated leftist bisexual man#without INCLUDING that he is māori#that has an impact! that has weight and importance!#that is a background to every decision he makes#from the meat wall to the nuke to his relationship with the earth#and it also has weight and importance in the decisions that muir makes in writing him#it is not a neutral decision that he's known as john gaius lmao#it's not a neutral decision that the empire is explicitly of roman/latin extraction#it's not even neutral that this is a book about necromancy#it's certainly not a neutral fucking decision that john was at one point a māori man living in the bush#when the nz govt decided to send cops in#like that is a thing that happens here! that is a reference to nz cultural and political events that informs john's character and actions#and with the nature of who john is in the story#informs the narrative as a whole#and i think the tiresome part of this experience is that#in general#americans are not well positioned to understand that something might be being written from outside their experience as a default#like obviously many many americans in online leftist & queer spaces are willing to learn and take on new information#but so much of the conversation starts from a place of having to explain that forests exist to fish
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Enstars sure is an experience. Did I miss anything?
#are you guys all okay? i definitely am not okay#this is not the type of media that i usually go for yet it is EXACTLY the type of media that i would like#so many gaps so many stories WAY TOO MUCH READING I DONT HAVE THE TIME#i know i missed a lot because ive only watched the anime and read the main music story up to ch 4 of the second part#and i have read some events stories that were free#and maybe one or two outside from translations#but like thats it#this is like reading orv and getting hit with its deep metas on human life and the importance of stories#but instead im being clobbered by the most deranged storylines known to man (and again. i read ORV and am a bsd fan)#this isnt fantasy but there is nothing realistic about enstars and i unfortunately am attached#every day i spiral into east asian media that gives me an aneurysm#bsd -> orv -> link click -> enstars....i wanna say they keep getting more unhinged but theyre all unhinged in different ways#anyway please help me....#enstars#ensemble stars#fandom spamdom#stuff i say#i will admit i am mostly into the game for the stories#a consistent gamer i am not#but to unlock the stories ill push back the animes i have to catch up on etc etc#again. please help me....#edit: updated to remove queerbaiting because apparently i dont know whats going on
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man shifting intensely into tango mode has given me traffic!tango thoughts too. I think he resents his role in the story; I think he resents it because he sees himself as an afterthought. all of these people around him, they have stories people remember. not tango. tango’s the comic relief in the first act. tango’s the good guy who’s better for the poor canary than anyone else. tango’s the one who gets betrayed and is infuriated to represent the group collapsing, but that’s the last member of the team anyone thinks about once it does. tango’s—forgotten. he keeps getting forgotten. he keeps failing to make an impact at all. when’s it gonna be HIS turn to be the one the story’s about, huh? when’s it HIS turn to be something other than a side character? why does he always get subsumed into other narratives, huh?
do you think anyone remembers he was the first one to kill jimmy? he built a game, and it killed him. do you think anyone remembers?
of course not. that’s not the important part of that story.
it never is.
#tangotek#trafficblr#I have meta thoights here because I can’t figure out how to make this into a compelling ficlet#anyway. did YOU know that?#because that’s not a part of third life MOST people remember actually#because it’s not the important part of that narrative now is it.#tell me—can you tell me how tango died in third life or limited life?#tell me—did it matter?#anyway I think tango resents his part in that story. don’t you?
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assorted morena dekarios headcanons:
she possesses a sharp wit and is very perceptive, but is also incredibly kind and gentle
strong presence & really eclectic taste. she loves bright colors, extravagant patterns, collecting paintings, and all kinds of knick-knacks. her house is a reflection of her personality: warm, welcoming, and cluttered with ✨precision✨
has a penchant for big jewelry (especially necklaces)
gale deems her “unavoidable” because she has a way of seeing right through him, sometimes even going beyond motherly intuition (and because you’d spot her everywhere)
she always strongly supported gale’s individuality and wanted to give him every opportunity to grow into the person he wants to be
this often clashes cause she does worry about his safety constantly
on that note: would do absolutely everything for her son
her ex-husband had little interest in raising gale and deemed him too exhausting/high maintenance. morena eventually encouraged his decision to split, knowing his presence would do more harm than good
loves books but doesn’t bother to keep them in good condition (much to gale’s horror)
as he got older their dynamic grew to resemble a friendship, which is also why he refers to her by her first name
they banter a lot and it is very entertaining to watch/makes their similarities even more obvious
surprisingly strict whenever the situation calls for it. it’s a sudden 180. don’t mess with morena dekarios
claims she’s not interested in gossip, but is very curious nonetheless
possesses extensive mixology knowledge, but hates being drunk. life needs to be experienced to the fullest with all senses at all times
she’s a natural dancer despite not having a whole lot of practice
very welcoming to a romanced!tav and the rest of gale’s new friends. she has already been filled in by tara and withers. naturally, as long as her prince is happy she is as well
almost rivals gale in the duration of his crying during his own wedding. once he begins to read his vows she’s immediately brought to tears
actively tries to get to know a romanced!tav and makes sure they feel included in their family whenever possible, but will also respect if there’s no interest/some apprehension
she is very respectful of gale’s privacy and knows when to step back, albeit no less worried
she has dark, long, curly and thick hair that is hard to tame. (the envy of all her neighbors her age) she usually puts it up in a claw
tara has her own corner in morena’s sitting room, including her very own cozy armchair. no one else is allowed to use it.
#bg3#baldurs gate 3#morena dekarios#gale dekarios#bg3 headcanons#it speaks#will forever mourn that we didn't get to see these two interact#it would have been so nice to get the added context to gale's story since she is obviously incredibly important to him#(and actually integral to his character. but oh well)#contrary to popular belief i don't think she's that overbearing#nor ditzy. quite the opposite actually - this woman KNOWS#i also think that she and gale share many similarities. part of the reason why they get along so well
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Sometimes I think I’ve got a good idea of sans character then I remember deep down I consider him kinder then papyrus and I have to come to terms with the fact that I have also fandom-fied him and it hurts, anyway congratulations on staying true to his character your the strongest soldier out there
lol don't beat yourself up. i wouldn't use "kind" as a qualifier, but i do think papyrus can come across as much blunter than sans. he's loud and banging and over the top in a way that exaggerates his other attributes, and one of those is his social awkwardness. he's shameless! both when he's being positive and uplifting AND when he's being a bitch. sans is more... contained. less vocal. but that's something that applies to his character in general.
more than anything i think—as jaded and more pessimistic as sans has become with time and his reset knowledge—both him and papyrus start from the same core personality. papyrus' kindness is obviously important to his character, but people tend to play it up too much in my opinion. he's just as capable of disregarding people's suffering and unhappiness for his own interests (empress undyne ending, king mtt ending, remaining our friend in spite of our actions) as his brother. he's just... very loud about his positivity and caring for other people and DOES want what's best for everyone... when it's not particularly inconvenient to him. lol.
#but yeah overall like you said papyurs being kinder than sans is the more quote unquote correct reading#at least the more functional one. he has a very important role as the one character whose death will NEVER be justified in the story#his positivity his harmlessness and yes his kindness all play a part in that#answered asks#undertale#papyrus#sans#metanalysis
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#i agree maya kinda fruity from their part#Phoenix really said I will make my entire life story and personality based on this one guy I had a crush when I was like 8 years old#and honestly I love the commitment why can’t that be me who to be the defense attorney to my prosecution#I love them sm so important#ace attorney#phoenix wright#miles edgeworth#edgewright#narumitsu
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I'm loving your oc stuff too!!! Do you think we could get some (non spoilery) info about them?
Sure :] Cameron (right) is a barista living in her hometown with her younger sister she and is not thrilled about any of these things. Ari (left) writes articles about paranormal/hokey true crime stuff for a buzzfeed-knockoff type of website after quitting her phd. Theyre both mid-20s and also both gay but Cameron is very closeted
Ari's phd program was in vertebrate evolution, specifically feline phylogenetics, which segues into my worldbuilding that I've also wanted to talk about lol. All the characters in this world are based on cats from subfamily Felinae – basically all small wildcats combined into one sapient species instead of humans. The characters I've designed so far are inspired by specific cats (Cameron is based on a serval and Ari on a pampas cat) but I'm not trying to stick too closely to that since they're all meant to be the same species from a worldbuilding perspective. No domestic cats (furry or animal) but regular big cats are still a thing, basically akin to great apes vs humans. Anthropomorphic cougars and cheetahs are a thing but are extinct, like extinct hominids. Basically my effort to shove cats into a human evolution parallel lol
#this sounds boring but just know that I am withholding kind of the most important part and premise of the story LOL#the worldbuilding aspect is plot relevant also at least from a conceptual perspective#ask#aerielart#oc: ari#oc: cameron#from a technical perspective pulling designs from multiple cat species helps with more design variation#which I liken to how humans are extremely phenotypically diverse esp with a relative lack of genetic diversity compared to other species
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Have you noticed how Aventurine has all the attributes of a proper epic hero?
Special Circumstances Of Birth, for example. If you look at world mythology, the hero is usually a descendant of a god or blessed by a god, and their birth is accompanied by some rare natural phenomena.
A tragic event forcing him to leave his home and shaping his goals.
An exceptional talent that comes naturally to him and separates him from other mortals.
The way he wins allies through skill and cunning. One of the best moments of 2.1 is when you realise IPC colleagues haven't thrown him to the wolves, they are rolling along with his insane plan. They trust him.
(this whole story he is, in fact, surrounded by allies and helped by them)
There's probably something else but I forgot.
Not usually a trait of an epic hero (usually required for a modern one though) but there's an ideal he strives to achieve. I loved his reason for joining the IPC.
Then there is that whole descent to the underworld thing. I'll be surprised if we don't see him again. And this is where it gets interesting.
I could brush this off as a hero's journey trope but, considering the illusory nature of Penacony, maybe he's more of an orphic hero than an epic one. He's also fragile and tragic in a very orphic way, unlike a proper hero.
Orphics believed in a cycle of reincarnation that could be escaped through their rites. The world was seen as a place of suffering and mortal goals as irrelevant.
Characters of Orphic myths do not return triumphantly from the land of the dead to smite those who wronged them. Their deities lose and are forever changed but get to move on in other forms (Persephone, Zagreus), their heroes acquire little apart from knowledge.
These are stories of surrender, acceptance, and transcendence and if any power is gained in the process it's through discovering or establishing different rules for the world and the characters themselves.
(oh, and probable ethymology for Orpheus' name is that it is derived from a hypothetical PIE root *h₃órbʰos — 'orphan, servant, slave'. now where else have I seen these words...)
It's so unlike the Hero's Journey structure described by Campbell and much more popular in modern media, where a hero gains a solution to the problem that pushed them to another world.
So I wonder in which form will Aventurine return. A hero who will set things right or a new genius loci of Penacony. Or an eschatological deity, perhaps.
Or maybe he's Orpheus himself and he'll come back empty-handed.
#hsr spoilers#penacony spoilers#aventurine#hsr#guys#he's not jesus#he's orpheus#this little peacock charmed everyone with his song#or rather annoyed#the important part is that it worked#and maybe he'll find his sister in the underworld#he won't bring her back of course#this is not how the story goes#but maybe he'll see her#I wonder if he'll become an emanator#but I'd prefer if he doesn't
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