#it's a good thing nothing bad happens after this and she survives the arc and is still alive today :)
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I didn't get particularly attached to Hollyleaf in Po3 because her brothers had more interesting arcs going on and she was kind of hard for me to get a good read on, but starting The Forgotten Warrior and knowing she's about to come back has got me so emotional right now
#it's a good thing nothing bad happens after this and she survives the arc and is still alive today :)#i read hollyleaf's story in between oots 4 and 5 because a good chunk of it takes place in those books#and I'm looking forward to her return. i just love drama and I love oots#I'm actually a little sad that I'm nearly done with this arc#but also excited because it means soon I'm entering new territory#i think the last book i read when it was new was moth flight's vision#which means the last book chronologically that i read when it was new was bramblestar's storm#so once I'm past that threshold I'm on to a mix of books I read a couple years ago without remembering context and books I've never read#so I'm excited about that! it's the final leg of the journey that i started rereading this whole series just to get to#anyway I'm distracted. wasn't this post about hollyleaf
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Emerald: Hey Cinder? MFK Me, Watts, and Jaune?
Cinder: MFK II
Emerald: H-Hey, Cinder?
Cinder: Yes, Emerald?
Emerald: MFK between, Jaune, Watts, and me~?
Cinder: Excuse me?
Jaune: Watts? The devil is that?
Cinder: I’d kill, Watts! Brutally, painfully, and slowly! I would absolutely remove his presence from this plain of existence, and the next! I would burn every fragmented memory of him so that their was nothing left of the fucker! I would DESTROY HIM!!!
Jaune: …
Emerald: …
Jaune: Y-You know what… N-Never mind!
Emerald: So… W-Who are you going to fuck, and marry then…?
Cinder: Well, for starters, you’re gonna fuck, Jaune…
Jaune: WHAT?!
Emerald: Excuse me?
Jaune: That’s not how the game is pla…! No, that’s not important; Why do you want me to sleep with, Emerald?!
Emerald: Yeah, why do you want me to do that?! A-Are you into that…?
Cinder: No, I’m not… But, well… Watching, Jaune turning you into his personal toy does sound oh so tantalizing~! Mmmm~! Perhaps we should try that later~!
Jaune: What?!
Emerald: Okay, what’s going on here, I’m so confused.
Jaune: Same here, what’s going on, Cindy?
Emerald: Cindy?!
Jaune: Uhhh…?!
Emerald: Since when did, Cinder have a nickname?!
Cinder: Since we became a couple.
Emerald: You’re dating?!
Jaune: Yes…
Emerald: The fuck did that happen?!
Jaune: Well… remember that time we were sent on that survival mission, j-just the two of us for team cohesion training?
Emerald: Yes?
Jaune: Well, Cinder was butting heads with me trying to be a leader, and all that.
Emerald: Yeah, she’s always been upset that you were chosen for team leader than her. But, that training mission sorted that out. It did sort it out?
Jaune: I-It did… just not in the way they intended…
Emerald: What happened?
Jaune: Well, you see… uhh… W-We kinda…
Cinder: Fucked.
Jaune: Yeah… That…
Emerald: WHAT?! The fuck happened?
Cinder: Oh, the usual: Me gloating on how great our team would be if I was in team leader. Jaune stating my arrogance would get us all killed if I was team leader. Then we both started arguing even more, and since none of you were their to stop us we really went at it. I was going to slap him for…? For something he said, It doesn’t matter anyway. He caught, my hand, and then we started wrestling, we fell down, and rolled across the dirt for a bit until, Jaune pinned to the floor, and the next thing I know I’m shoving my tongue down his throat, and learning how much of a bottom truly am.
Emerald: S-Seriously?
Jaune: P-Pretty much…
Emerald: So the whole reason you two started getting along together, and stopped fighting one another, is because you had sex?!
Jaune: Yes…?
Cinder: And, the disciplinary spankings. You mustn’t forget about the spankings~!
Emerald: Okay… Fine? You’re dating, I take it you’re ’married’ then?
Cinder: Oh absolutely. I genuinely hope to become, Cinder Fall Arc one day.
Jaune: Best not tell mom that, she could at least wait until after I ask you to marry me before demanding grandkids…
Cinder: Wait…?! You’re actually going to ask me to marry you?!
Jaune: Uhhh…?! S-S-So why do I have to fuck, Emerald?!
Cinder: Oh well, since I’ll be the bread earner, and you the house husband…
Jaune: What?! Why do I have to be the house husband?!
Cinder: Cause you can cook, clean, entertain guests, buy the necessary groceries for a meal. And, you know I can’t do that regardless of how hard we try, I mean to remember what happened the last time I tried to cook?
Emerald: They’re still repairing the kitchen…
Jaune: Shit… I am the house husband. But still, where does fucking, Emerald come into all of this?
Cinder: Oh she’ll be the sexy maid who helps you clean up around the house that you also bend over the table, and spank her because she did a ‘bad’ job cleaning everything.
Jaune: So she’s my mistress?
Cinder: Yes.
Emerald: So you want me to fuck your boyfriend to see if I’m good for him?
Cinder: Yes. I will be testing you on your ability to pleasure him, ability to take his massive member…
Emerald: How massive?
Cinder: Your endurance, and your…
Jaune: Endurance? Oh, I get it, you want help so you don’t tap out again.
Cinder: Can you blame me?! You can last twice as long as I can! And, I’m always walking with a limp every time we do it! I NEED HELP!
Jaune: Hence, Emerald?
Cinder: Hence, Emerald. So, you up for it, Emerald?
Emerald: …
Emerald: If I do this… D-Does that also mean I can sleep with you too…?
Cinder: That’s a definite probability.
Emerald: W-Will I get spankings from you if I misbehave…?
Cinder: Most likely.
Emerald: I’ll do it!
Cinder: Wonderful! Okay, let the test begin! Emerald, lets see how long you can last, and if you need help, or are about to tap out, we’ll have, Neo rake your place.
Jaune: Neo?! Neo doesn’t like me like that!
Cinder: Yes she does. She’s asked me on multiple occasions for a threesome with you.
Jaune: Bullsh-Aaaahhhh?!! Neo?!
Neo: 😈
Jaune: Neo?! Get your hands out of my pants?!
Neo: 😙🎵
Jaune: Get your hand off my dick!
Cinder: Neo, wait your turn.
Neo: 😠
Cinder: Emerald, what are you waiting for, get to it.
Emerald: …
Emerald: Okay… Let’s do this!
~~~
Emerald: …
Neo: …
Emerald: I can’t feel my legs…
Neo: 🤕
Emerald: Worth it~!
Neo: 🥰
#rwby#jaune arc#cinder fall#emerald sustrai#rwby neo#jaune x cinder#cinder x jaune#jaune x emerald#emerald x jaune#neo x jaune#jaune x neo#rwby knightfall#rwby topaz#rwby silentknight#arthur watts
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The 100 knew how to do a redemption arc.
Throughout its seven-season run on The CW, post-apocalyptic sci-fi drama repeatedly doubled down on one of its many thought-provoking mantras: there are no good guys. The “good guys” often did terrible things in the name of survival, and the “bad guys” were rarely through-and-through evil (although they could be “cockroaches”).
Timed to the recent 10-year anniversary of the series premiere, we chatted with Richard Harmon, Lindsey Morgan, and Henry Ian Cusick about how they came to join the show, the extent to which Harmon and Cusick saw their characters as villains during the first season, and why they think The 100 has stuck around in the sci-fi genre.
Murphy wasn’t originally Murphy: he was “John #1,” and he wasn’t meant to live past the show’s second episode. Harmon recalled the process of first auditioning for the show: “I originally auditioned for the role of Bellamy, beautifully played by Bob Morley,” he said. “I remember auditioning for that and thinking, ‘There’s no way in hell I’m ever going to get this role.’ Lo and behold, I did not.” Weeks later, he got an audition for the roles of “John #1” and “John #2,” and after feeling confident that he’d booked it, he learned that he had. He was John #1.
Harmon said that despite his character’s predetermined Episode 2 death, he approached the first episode determined to do something different and have fun with the role. Thankfully, showrunner Jason Rothenberg was watching. “I guess he noticed that, liked what I was doing, and expanded the role in some rewrites during the shooting of the Pilot,” Harmon said, adding that half of what Murphy said in the aired Pilot wasn’t there in the original script. “When it got picked up to series, he emailed me personally—which was kind of a shocking thing as not a lead, to get an email from the creator of the show. He said, ‘I really liked what you did, how would you feel about not dying in the second episode? Could you stick around for the whole first season? Your last name will be Murphy, people will call you Murphy, and what do you think?’” And so went the story of how he booked “John #1”… and how “John #1” became John Murphy.
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First appearing in the show’s second episode rather than in the Pilot, Morgan wound up on The 100 through a whirlwind of correct timing and fate. She’d been waiting to hear whether she’d booked a role on Chicago P.D. when she auditioned for the part of Raven on Tuesday, chemistry-read with Thomas McDonnell [played Finn Collins] on Thursday, and was on a plane headed to Vancouver by Sunday. She later found out she wouldn’t have gotten the Chicago P.D. role. “It’s crazy to look back and imagine it happening any other way,” she said.
Similarly to Harmon’s “John #1,” Morgan’s Raven wasn’t meant to be a The 100 mainstay. Originally, Morgan said, Raven was meant to die after just five episodes—a shock, when one considers how integral the quick-thinking mechanic and tech genius became to the plot of the show. “I was on pins and needles, waiting to receive my death notice with each passing script,” Morgan said. After the Season 1 finale, Rothenberg made the offer to Morgan to stick around for Season 2. She’d been up for a role on a different show at that time. If she’d gotten it, Raven would’ve died from the gunshot wound dealt her by Murphy. Obviously, Raven survived. “The rest was history,” Morgan said. “As we all know, nothing can kill Raven Reyes.”
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For his part, Cusick mentioned that it was a sense of longing for Lost that led him to The 100. “It was Pilot season, and I had just finished something, and I was reading a bunch of Pilots,” he remembered. “The 100 turned up, and I thought it was very similar in tone to Lost, which I was missing. I read that and I said to my agent, ‘That’s a cool Pilot.’ I ended up having a meeting with [showrunner] Jason Rothenberg, and we had a chat, and he offered it to me.”
While he did almost float Clarke’s mother, Dr. Abby Griffin (Paige Turco}, in the Pilot, Cusick disagrees with the label of Kane as a villain and passionately defends him. Even in the show’s early days, he says he just viewed Kane as “more of a d**k.” Cusick recounts several things his character was accused of doing but never actually did—such as attempting to kill Jaha (Isaiah Washington)—and maintains that rather than being villainous, Kane was simply a stickler for the rules. “Other people were talking about him and badmouthing him, but he was just a man who was trying to save the human race,” Cusick said. “He went about it in a rather authoritarian, draconian way. He was very strict. And then when he arrived on Earth, he went ‘Oh, humanity is still around.’ Then he could go back to being who he really was. That’s my opinion.”
Whether viewers considered him a villain or a d**k, Kane undoubtedly softened up. His kindness and diplomacy helped establish peace with the grounders as he formed a friendship with Indra (Adina Porter), he and Abby fell in love, and he gradually became a father figure to the delinquents—especially Bellamy Blake (Bob Morley). “I really took to Bob quite quickly,” Cusick remembered. “We would joke around a lot. I would call him my ‘idiot son’ and stuff like that,” he said with a laugh. “We kind of cultivated that relationship, I thought, that we were like father and son. We enjoyed each other’s company, so that was easy to play.”
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Harmon, on the other hand, readily admitted he played Murphy as a villain in Season 1—so much so that he’d taken inspiration for Murphy and Bellamy’s relationship from Biblical literature. “I based [Murphy] loosely off of Lucifer, actually,” he said. “Bellamy was God, for this group, and I’m his right-hand favorite angel, but demon, really. Eventually I try to take too much power, just like Lucifer does in the Bible, and God smites me down. That’s when I get thrown out to the grounders in the wild and come back way later, with the sickness.”
When the show was picked up for a second season, Harmon and Rothenberg had another chat. “At the end of Season 1, Jason said, ‘Will you stick around for the long haul now going forward to Season 2?’” Harmon said. “And I was like, ‘Of course, I would love to, but how are you going to do that?’” Rothenberg, Harmon remembered, wanted him to get the audience on Murphy’s side. Harmon was up for the challenge, as long as he was given material to convince the audience that there was a good reason behind Murphy’s notable not-niceness. “Eventually, as the seasons progressed and the fans responded favorably to Murphy, all of my cuts were a good angle, and I was a little more tanned with dirt, and I was like, ‘I think they’re trying to, maybe, make me hot,” Harmon laughed. “I don’t think at that point in my career anyone had ever tried to make me attractive on-screen before. That was nice. That felt good.”
Raven Reyes was about as far from a villain as one could get, even though she, like every character, had to make incredibly difficult choices. Morgan has fond memories especially of Season 2, and portraying Raven’s journey with losing the use of her leg. “As an able-bodied actor, I felt a deep responsibility and honor towards playing a character with disabilities as accurately as I could,” she said. “I wanted to bring justice, nuance, complexity, and the best accuracy to her journey as I could, and hopefully share and showcase her truth, as well as the strength people with disabilities exhibit daily.”
Morgan, too, has fond memories of filming in the Vancouver wilderness. While filming with Cusick and the “adult” cast on the Ark put her inside in the warm studio (and closer to the snacks), she enjoyed being outside in the forest… and sneaking in an on-set nap when an opportunity presented itself. “I can, and will, nap anywhere,” she recalled. “Thomas [McDonnell] almost stepped on my head once, because I was napping on the floor of our cast tent. I blended into the ground.”
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Aside from his bond with Bellamy Blake, Kane’s other major connection on The 100 was his romance with Dr. Abby Griffin. Surprisingly, Cusick hadn’t known the writers intended to take the characters in that direction. “I remember Paige [Turco] saying to me, ‘I think they’re trying to get us together,’ and I was thinking, ‘No, that’s never going to happen. We need to be combative. That’s where the drama is,’” he said. In the end, Kane and Abby had a heartwarming love that lasted several seasons. Cusick thinks that not being told from the start about the romance angle only improved his performance. “The actors had no clue that was going to happen, so we were just playing our motivations, and our roles, and what we thought was right,” he said. “There was no hint of any flirtation or anything like that between the characters, so that’s when it happened. Maybe the audience saw it, I don’t know, but it was certainly a surprise to me.”
Unfortunately, Kane and Abby didn’t have the happy ending that many might’ve hoped for. Cusick departed the show in its sixth season, and Turco’s character was killed off in the Season 6 finale. While The 100 fans know all about heartbreak, it might add an extra layer of sadness to know that originally, Kane and Abby had been intended to have a more hopeful story. “My relationship with Abby was good, and people wanted us to get together,” Cusick reflected. “I think that would’ve happened, had I not left. I know that Jason [Rothenberg] said he wanted that to happen—he wanted us to get married, which would’ve been interesting.”
Cusick also directed the eleventh episode of Season 4, “The Other Side,” and the tenth episode of Season 5, “The Warriors Will.” When he thinks back on those experiences, he does so with appreciation for the show’s crew including director of photography Michael Blundell, and gratitude to Jason Rothenberg, director Dean White, and the cast. “Just in general, I never really got a chance to say this: I wanted to say thank you,” he said. “When I meet everyone at cons, I’m thinking about how we all went through this together. We all have relationships that are unique, because we went through that show. I’m always amazed when we meet up at cons by how fun they all are, and how nice it is to see them again.”
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On the subject of conventions, Harmon mentioned that he and Morley used to take it as a badge of honor when fans would tell them that they hated Murphy and Bellamy. Twitter death threats, too, Harmon learned to take in stride. “It got a little hectic at times, for sure,” he remembered. “If people wanted to hate you so much, I’m so grateful for that. That just means we did our job well.” Harmon also mentioned that he wished he’d gotten to keep Murphy’s jacket from Season 1. Unfortunately, he doesn’t know what happened to it. Morgan, on the other hand, has held onto a few of Raven’s iconic items—including her trademark red jacket and knee brace. “I joked that I was going to make a plaster cast out of my body and display them in my house,” she said. “I definitely didn’t do that, but I have them in a safe place.”
As for The 100’s staying power, Harmon, Morgan, and Cusick all pointed out its continued interrogation of what it means to be human, especially in heightened, life-or-death situations. While the show was airing, Harmon said he called it the “biggest show you’ve never heard of.” At this point, he no longer thinks that description is true—people have heard of it.
“It was cool to be on the biggest show you’ve never heard of, because people would be like, ‘What show?’ and then all of a sudden there’d be five people who’d go, ‘The 100? Yes!’” he remembered. “People who watched it fell in love with it. Or were livid with it. Either way.”
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This is how I find out an anti-nettles tag exists of Tumblr people are so shallow minded and miss the point George's original story people really think just because these dumbass show runner decided the race-bend an entire group of characters for cheap brownie points of representation that it means Nettles no longer matters like no, it may no longer be about race just because the writers are trying to force feminism onto Rhaenyra's character but it's still about class. A low born orphan at just the age of 17 was capable of doing what dozens of well trained knights failed to do. She survived one of the biggest civil wars in Westeros history, she had one of the last surviving dragons of the dance (who cares who's the biggest, oldest, most shiny etc etc it was Nettles and her dragon that outlived them all in the end) AND she was capable if creating an entire culture around herself (the tribes could've easily over powdered her but instead chose to worship and respect her) mind you all she had was a dragon, she had no titles just her name. Also, she's a few of the very few characters in the books that show care and remorse, she mourned Jace someone she barely knew and cried for Driftmark despite having lived a life previously where she was mistreated and starving on the streets. I swear these Dumbnyra stans deserve their names (Dumbnyra), and just because some of us are pro-Nettles, it doesn't automatically make use of team Green, Team Green can kick rocks as well because they are such hypocrites, whining and complaining about how their fav characters were stripped of importance and reduced to a singular thing yet they turn around and strip Nettles's character as a gotcha moment towards to Dumbnyra stans, as if her relationship with Daemon is the only thing important to her character. These stans also need to realize the Nettles is one of George's favorite characters whose stories he'd like to continue.
👆🏽That’s for the fact that this racist(who I should mention I’m blocked by for no reason🤣) actually knows how to tag things properly. I’ll give her that, but who exactly died and made her an authority on Black representation?
Dumbnyra stans this is exactly why people keep calling you people racists:
Do tell me how white a** Alys Rivers(no disrespect, but come on) had more purpose than a girl who shows that Targaryen supremacy is a lie? The girl that shows you don’t need Valyrian blood to claim a dragon.
The girl that George himself said he wanted to write a novella on(never heard him say that about Alys, Addam, Alyn, any of the other dragonseeds, Rhaena, and Baela)🤷🏽♀️
They are so blinded by the fact that she “ruins” Dumbnyra(which isn’t what they claim it is which is why they are scared sh*tless of her being on a show they claim doesn’t matter) that they make up lies about Nettles being the most irrelevant character in Fire & Blood.
This can never be irrelevant/unimportant/unnecessary/whatever else you want to say to demean her:
That happened long after the Dance boo boo(when Missy Anne’s a** was long dead 😊).
And if the one who wrote that garbage happens to be reading this(because I know you people are stalking me), f*ck you. I mean that from the bottom of my heart. You've crossed the line.
You’re a bigot. You have no right to speak on Black representation let alone say we are good on representation that doesn’t even affect you and that you have no understanding of.
And you definitely don’t care about representation because if you did you wouldn’t want Rhaena who has her own arc to replace Nettles who according to you wasn’t Daemon’s lover. If she’s just his daughter or his mentee, well then you have nothing to be worried about. Her presence on the show shouldn’t disrupt your putrid little white supremacist ship or make Missy Anne look bad since what happened at Maidenpool was all a big misunderstanding and Mysaria’s fault😊 You shouldn’t give a second thought to her.
Yes, Black people care about this issue(and even if some of us are a part of Team Green because that’s the majority I see from Team Green actually caring about her, then so what🙃).
Do you see how we are portrayed by the media? Do you see what happens to Black characters in TV shows and movies? To Black women characters? Do you see how they are treated by production and the fandom?
What you people are doing isn’t new. Just look at The Bear, Sleepy Hollow, Vampire Diaries, Star Trek, Star Wars, GOT(see how Missandei was done), and Marvel fandoms(there are more than that I’m just too tired to get into it).
The moment there is even a hint of a possibility that a Black woman might be in a relationship with the fandom hottie, hell the moment a Black woman doesn’t have a stereotypical role, all hell breaks loose and you people look for every excuse and spout out the same tired crap on why so and so is irrelevant, is a terrible character, doesn’t need a man, needs to be cut, should be killed off, should be replaced, etc.
So just because you don’t care doesn’t mean we should accept scraps, or our “irrelevant” characters being cut, or swapped out with race-bent characters. Black people aren’t all the same sweetie and we deserve more than what you feel we do.
If that’s too much for your diminutive brain to handle why don’t we just combine Ulf and Hugh? It’s not too late to cut out one of the two’s roles in post-production. After all, they serve the same role and they are both white.
You know what? How about we combine Black Aly and Jeyne Arryn while we are at it😀
Should we view Helaena and Rhaenyra as the same? I have a hard time telling them apart since they are both white and blonde. They should wear name tags that way we don’t get them confused 🙃
Let me stop there.
Sorry for ranting anon, but I’m so tired of the disrespect. Like how does one character who’s supposedly so unimportant cause so much uproar?
I go in on Dumbnyra stans a lot(and that person shows exactly why), but you are right that all sides of this fandom treat Nettles like she’s trash. If it’s not saying she’s a plot device sent to ruin Dumbnyra from Team Black and that anyone Black can replace her it’s how Team Green is so worried about her being abused and how maybe it’s for the best she gets cut.
Their behavior is utterly disgusting. It's anti-Black, but no one takes anti-Blackness and especially not misogynoir seriously.
Nettles may be a secondary character, but she’s the most important secondary character during the Dance. She starts out literally homeless. She claims Sheepstealer by determination, not by blood. She’s the only one to claim a wild dragon. The only non-Valyrian dragonrider that we know of.
She gets the Rogue Prince to fall in love with her to the point where he’s willing to die for her and disobeys his wife’s orders to save her. She survives the Dance with a dragon intake. Becomes a fire witch and is worshipped by a mountain clan in the Mountains of the Moon(she’s still worshipped by them during the main series). Her legacy is cemented.
I love her relationship with Daemon, but she’s so much more than just Daemon’s love. She’s a survivor. She’s the final girl. She would be seen as special as she is if she was white.
A character like her will never not be needed especially in a world where the representation of Black women in media, particularly fantasy stories, is still pretty bleak.
#bnasks#nettles#bnask#anti daemyra stans#pro nettles#just continue to use the anti tag#f*ck 90% of you in this fandom#netty#nettles asoiaf#nettles f&b#hotd fandom misogynoir#yep this is why y’all are called dumbnyra stans
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SEVEN KINGS MUST DIE OPINIONS
This post is a series of various ramblings about the movie!!! please do not read the extended version of this post if you want to avoid spoilers! last warning: THIS POST IS BASICALLY ONE SPOILER AFTER THE OTHER!!!!
I had an inkling this movie wasn't going to be incredibly thorough as the series was (and even the series was often a little rushed), but i feel it maintained a strong tie to the series, and while a little rushed it managed to give us some kind of closure.
OPINIONS:
the opening was amazing, loved how it took scenes from the movie and rendered it in the usual opening
Ingrith and Finan were so sweet, i was incredibly saddened that they didn't show them having kids or having more happy moments. Finan's reaction at her death was very sad, and i think it was unfair that we didn't get to know anything about his life post the events of the movie. Good though that it is implied at the end that Finan survives Uhtred.
what about Sihtric's wife/children???? again, we were left wondering about them but not only didn't she appear, his children weren't even in the picture. We are left wondering about them, unfortunately. Good thing though that he survived!!!
We knew baby Uhtred is in Rome; again, where is Stiorra????
Eadgifu's character was put to test this season but i am glad she was consistent with her s5 characterization. she is truly an amazing woman!
Eadgifu and the subtext with Uhtred was something i did not expect but liked! She matched Uhtred's maturity, and I liked the way they supported each other for their children.
Athelstan!!!! okay, while i am disappointed it wasn't Osbert the one to be coupled up with him, i really liked his arc. I love how they explored his feelings over his homosexuality, his guilt and how it tied directly to the story. He acted out of desperation at first, but then came around to his duty and a newfound purpose that wasn't anymore a means to get away from his sins, but something he truly wanted for himself and his people. His complex relationship with Uhtred was shown in a way that for once didn't involve Uhtred behaving stupidly, showing he's definitely grown from the man he once was.
No Hild disappointed me but good for her for getting away from these problems once again!!!
Aldhelm's death:((((
Astrid & Arnalf: now i think this is where the movie threw away its chances of developing a bit more the Dane antagonists! In this season particularly Astrid didn't have any other purpose other than to be the cause of Aldhelm's death, and serve as a plot device to further the story. Arnalf's motivation could have been better explored too.
Osbert's character wasn't very fleshed out, and i disliked that it wasn't even mentioned a conflict between him and Uhtred for the abandonment. Not an explanation, nothing. I do like him though, he reminds me of a younger Uhtred, and I find heartwarming his friendship with Edmund (though even that one is briefly shown).
The end of the movie wasn't bad, though it was interesting. in a way i felt like it was incredibly satisfying, since it didn't show us exactly what happened to Uhtred in the end, though it implied him entering in Valhalla. We don't know what happens after to him, but we know he was loved and he existed, and this series + the movie gives us a glimpse to a secret only we know. Despite it being a rushed ending, i will say that it was a good and satisfying one, and seeing Brida and Ragnar the Fearless truly warmed me. I wished we could have gotten a glimpse of Gisela but oh well, i understand Peri Baumeister was probably busy.
In the end I feel like the main problem of the movie was how rushed it was, and how poorly fleshed out were the characters we were following. That didn't hinder my enjoyment of it, though, and as i said it was very satisfying and in a way i love that we are left filling the gaps they left open.
Is it the best closure to TLK? maybe not, but unfortunately a 2 hour movie would never be able to give all we needed as fans of the serie, so what we got in comparison to many bad movies/sequels out there was a very well made final product.
I feel like upon rewatching both the serie and the movie i will come to love it fully! I have other thoughts, but for now these are my face value disconnected opinions.
I will miss these characters so much, they accompanied me all these years and brought me close to so many people! Hoping to continue enjoying them through the amazing fanwork this fandom continues to create!!!
#the last kingdom#seven kings must die spoiler#seven kings must die#seven kings must die spoilers#7kmd spoilers#uhtred of bebbanburg#finan#sihtric#athelstan#osbert#eadgifu
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I was talking to my sister recently about Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the topic of what I thought was the worst season popped up. Without hesitation, I said season 6.
And I stand by it. Everything in it, everything people are now saying is good actually, is only good on paper. Buffy depressed about being resurrected? And doing incredibly self-destructive things? Having to live without her mother and try and be a good guardian for Dawn? This is all good on paper! But the execution? We get a comedy episode for Buffy trying to get a job. Buffy getting, and failing at a new job, having to deal with both earning money and her duties as a Slayer could have been a short plotline where she couldn't balance it and it made things worse for her. It could have really shown just how much she struggled, and made her self-destruction hit even harder.
But it had to be a comedy episode.
I'm not saying Doublemeat Palace is the only example I have of how they fumbled showing her depression and inability to readjust after being resurrected. But it's the beginning of it, and indicative of how they fumbled showing it.
Willow and Tara having problems with their relationship? Even the best couples have conflicts. But the out of nowhere magic addiction? When it's never been hinted at that the reason Amy abused magic was an addiction, just moral failing when realizing what she could do with it? And then the sheer amount of shit Willow put Tara through? Tara was abused so badly by the writers. Fighting with Willow then having her memory wiped several times, breaking up with her, only to finally make up once Willow was able to admit she needed help only to be killed in the same episode?
No wonder Amber Benson was on board for the audiobook. Tara deserved better.
Xander and Anya? I'm sorry, Xander has a lot of flaws but he's not the type to leave someone at the alter just so Anya can have her own destructive arc. He'd be more likely to just call the entire thing off before the wedding if he was that afraid that it would turn into what happened with his parents.
The trio? Okay. So. I'm going to talk Arknights for a bit. After going through Code of Brawl, I joke about how much trouble Penguin Logistics gets into and how I don't know how they're still alive after their antics. But the difference between them and the trio is Penguin Logistics is also competent. Exuisai can lean out a car door to shoot rubber bullets at the essentially Italian Mafia guys chasing them and not die because she's, mechanically, a 6* unit who can be a boss killer on her own. This is nothing to her. Texas is the last surviving member of the Texas famiglia, and people constantly refer to her as very dangerous. Il Siracusano showed why. Of course being the driver and pulling off that shit is easy for her. In comparison, the only thing the trio has to offer is Warren was the form of "actually evil" that is oh you're evil evil. They should have never been a threat outside the fact Warren had no moral compass. They're constantly bumbling, and only a threat to Buffy because the plot said so.
Spike? Holy shit. He has more dignity than what he did in season 6, and the bathroom scene felt like a punishment for those who liked Spike enough to keep him around. Like "are you sure you like him? See! He's an irredeemable monster! Stop liking him." We already know Whedon hated how popular Spike was, and because of that, this incredibly out of character and just plain cruel scene can only feel like punishing those who liked him.
Tbh the more I think about it, the more I feel season 6 was a punishment for whoever wanted to keep it going. It's so unpleasant, and it is pretty much just dark for darkness's sake. The writing isn't strong enough to support anything they wanted to do and not have it come off as malicious. It's bad and no amount of good ideas can excuse execution.
Season 6 could have been a poignant look at grief, loss, depression, and self-destruction. Having a human being more evil than a demon and finally showing that the Willow we know really does have the capability to be as evil as her alternate vampire self could have been great, since we've never really had that. Even in season 4, the Initiative was more misguided than actually evil. Instead we got grimdark and out of character writing.
Season 6 sucks, is the worst season, and I will not be convinced otherwise.
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i think the problem with the fam is theyre too obedient. theyre such goody two shoes the hope is that it'd rub off right? on the doctor. but it doesnt bc she hides her badness and they wont question her. okay they'll question her "what happened to never do weapons" "why dont you ever share anything with us" but they wont push back when she says nah ah we dont talk about that. and thats her problem. she wont talk about that. or that. or that. or that. or any of it
i think if you put a limit on their patience. theyre understanding but not forever (i mean theyre even understanding after her "death". "she knew she was gonna do something that might kill her" "she wanted us to live"). watch them grow more annoyed as they call out hypocrisies and less and less willing to accept bullshit answers. it would put a lot of movement in the dynamic i think
like okay, taking yaz out of the equation bc shes not a companion shes a doctor, just considering ryan and graham for now: ryan is young and like, being formed, which is part of his arc, but he also already has a lot of like really life- and worldview-shaping experiences right? black, disabled, unable to count on most of the guardians in his life. those things profoundly shape how you stand in the world, how you approach and are approached
and okay lets put yaz back in for a sec because shes really interesting to like put next to ryan and see like what happens there. because she and ryan share both being racialised and being neurodivergent, if you want to call it that (if depression counts. personally i think depression is more of a like regular human reaction to life than "divergence" from the "typical" so to say, but then i also think the secret underlying reason she was bullied and thus depressed was the autism. so it cancels out for me. but like thats sort of weaving in and out the text. and depression also is something very different from dyspraxia. BUT these are both things about them that like have been Underlined for us the audience, same as the conversation behind the bins in rosa, so i think im justified in putting these two things together as comparison. okay tangent over)
ryan and yaz both have had experiences of not being able to count on the people around them, for various reasons but all the same. it would be fairly understandable i think for ryan to be sort of like, fuck adults fuck people who have authority over me based on nothing. whereas yaz,,,,becomes the authority
RYAN: Yeah, see? It's not like Rosa Parks wipes out racism from the world forever. Otherwise, how come I get stopped way more by the police than my white mates?
YASMIN: Oi, not this police.
and you could really have put them like,,not opposite per se but like clashing in some way over this. not clashing like in fighting necessarily, though yes as in conflict. clashing as in different ideals, different conclusions drawn from similar experiences
yaz says to do good in the world i must have the power of the state. which also implies the power of the state can be good and is meant to be good. ryan i can easily imagine having been someone who no authority was worth counting on so fuck them all. that wouldve been a reaaally interesting tension to see play out throughout s11 and s12 i think
and thats just two of them. we've got a team of four. imagine both of their reactions to the doctor. we dont have to imagine with yaz, but ryan couldve been more like well whos she. you know? why are we listening to her? what just because she says so? let her prove herself first.
and then theres graham who has like half a lifetime of experience of Being A Human on them, who isnt in the coming of age phase anymore, who must have a lot of his own worldview, ideas, politics. we see like, a tiny bit of that with like edison or whatever but how does that play with a Time LordTM?
like theres a lot of interesting ways to pair up and to clash them! 13 and yaz with suicidal ideation, 13 and ryan on the dad thing, 13 and graham on survivors guilt. 13 and yaz vs ryan and graham on authority and law. ryan vs graham and 13 on guardians. ryan and yaz vs 13 and graham on being racialised. 13 and yaz vs ryan and graham on sexism. this couldve been a wildly dynamic team i think. if only you'd let them fight! if only you'd let them have their own opinions and Speak Them. this would put like so much schwung in like,, every plot, every episode
because it's all there! right? it's all already there, just look at the episode list of s11, it's all there, racism, sexism, workers, colonialism, big fucking spiders i dont know! wait thats a worker one again let me revise big fucking spiders capitalism! it's all there, you just gotta make it a bit dialectical. have them argue their sides and disobey and have 13 be like herding cats
imagine the way this would have challenged the doctor and the doctor's politics, then to follow it up with s12 "gallifrey is not what we think it is. we are not what we think we are"
and then revolution of the daleks, ryan and graham gone, and in that episode the police was very obviously like sided with the daleks and the capitalist and that politician right? the police was the fascists. hi, yasmin, how are you. oh, crazy? right, good, the doctor is too.
yaz and 13, now alone, ten months between revolution and flux, time to grapple with what it means to be both victim and agent of an empire. do we accept that? do we refuse that role? how do we refuse that role? how do we be good? what does it mean to be good if police clearly isnt it? how do we take off the uniforms. what moral framework do we build and then commit to, and hold each other accountable to, as copilots of this operation. what do we want to do in the universe. what is our impact. what do we want to avoid doing. how do we do that.
had the doctor said "i was in prison for being me" to yaz, imagine how that would have shaken up her ideas about prisons and how and why people might be in them. might have started her thinking. but then we're back to where i started this post before i totally lost control of it: The Doctor Doesnt Talk About That. and if the fam had been slightly more disobedient in s11, maybe in revolution there would have been place for it
#putting this in the tags bc it's like. not in the text but theres also an interesting thing you could do#if yaz had been hospitalised for a bit#maybe during those ten months even!#the parallels they could draw#anyway#totally didnt mean for this post to go anywhere like this i literally just was like 'ryans too nice'
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Imagine you are saved from the dark side by Anakin Skywalker.
Warnings1: the plot of this story involves the exclusion of the Ventress in her arc of “The Clone Wars”. This means Y/N is the apprentice of Count Dooku, but when he thinks he has you killed, you are not. You are rescued by Anakin instead… Is there redemption for you after all?
Warnings 2: smut, lots of drama, action, angst. Don’t read this if you are minor or possess any sensibility with these themes.
Recommendations: “Bring Me To Life”, “Lost in Paradise”, by Evanescence. “Nemo”, by Nightwish. “St Jude”, by Florence and the Machine.
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Intro
Darth Sidious reaches out for Dooku. Through the hologram he can see the Count going on one knee to greet the Sith Lord.
“Master.”
“The power of Y/N is growing. You must prevent it from growing it further. This is an imperative order.”
Dooku hesitates.
“But she has been my faithful servant…”
It’s when he begins to suffocate. Life has never before been at this close to be put an end.
“I am not to be questioned. Remember, my apprentice, that I don’t tolerate any failures whatsoever.”
Dooku is on his feet again, breathless. He nods his head.
“Of course, Master. It will be as you wish.”
“Good.”
Your death warrant has thus been signed.
***
Your black hair falls loose behind your back all the while a dark cape with a long hood omits your features. Darkness is in you and power is alluring. Almost every enemy that crosses your path does not live to tell the grandiosity you possess. Your reputation proceeds you to the point even those who are your allies whisper how you strongly opposed Master Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi and Knight Jedi Anakin Skywalker once.
You don’t care about reputations. You are not there to conquer anyone by fear or anger. You are there to ensure the missions assigned to you are done without second effects.
There are moments, however, where you are under a heavy rain sensing something’s wrong is about to begin. And that is what happens now. You don’t recollect how exactly you end up serving Dooku, but here you are, serving him to survive.
Yes. It has always been a matter of survival. Had not it been for such, I would have not fallen.
You are surprised when old memories of your family and friends come back to haunt you. But there is little time to dwell in their faces. As you are going back to your ship after unsuccessfully battling Kenobi in planet Y/C, rain starts to get heavier and you sense you are being followed.
You turn and you don’t see anyone. There is nothing around you, no one near you. But the presence is there. Though you are prepared for a fight, you know it’s a risk to stay there, in an open field within a strange planet.
You go back to your ship, uneasy. Your shoulders are tense and as you prepare to fly, your heart is tormented with a bad feeling. It doesn’t take longer to concretize, though: once your ship is leaving the atmosphere of that planet, you hear a strange sound.
“Who would attack me like this?”
What you see is that the attack does not come from any ship you might remember by the association to Jedis, the Senates or even maybe a Separatist.
You opt for reach out for your Master. Strangely, he is unreachable. You try again, you don’t succeed. You pilot fast, it’s when you see there’s not only one ship, but two after you.
Shit.
You try contacting Dooku one last time. When he doesn’t answer, you know you’ve been sent to die. You hate him for it, but your hate is strangely weak. Because I deserve it. A thought that is not as empty and insignificant as you would think.
The chase eventually interrupts what might’ve been the rise of an internal unrest. Your ship is hit and the next thing you know you are thrown out of it. It is so violent that the moment you are floating in the space, everything is black and you come to believe you are dead and gone.
***
Anakin finds himself surrounded by destruction everywhere. Once again, he is frustrated for not finding General Grievous. He’s about to turn the ship back to Coruscant when R2-D2 makes a noise.
“Uh? What are you spotting, R2-D2?”
It’s when he finds you floating amidst the destruction of many ships belonging to the Republic’s supporters.
“So she’s dead, hm? One less enemy to deal with.”
R2-D2 seems to protest.
“How would you know that? You’re not asking me to check it, are you?” Anakin heavily sighs. “Fine. I don’t know why I’m doing…”
It’s when it occurs him that if you are alive, the Jedis will definitely reward him for taking you as a prisoner. It’s solely with that purpose that he rescues you.
Once inside the ship, you are tied to the litter all the while Anakin proceeds to apply the closest to first aid. He watches as your whole skin looks blue and your long hair nearly grey, but once you start breathing he sees, in fact, that the color of your skin is y/c and your long locks are black as coal.
When you open your eyes, you stare surprised at Anakin’s blue eyes. His demeanor is serious and not at all friendly. In fact, your long time enemy has a saber right to your neck.
“You are not in advantage here, Y/N.” He tells you. “I’m taking you to Coruscant back with me where you ought to rock in prison. To the hell you should go, but I am not an outlaw man to send you there with my own hands.”
You don’t say anything at all. You are disappointed to find yourself in such a state. Death would have been sweeter.
AnakIn reads your thoughts, but he’s not moved by your internal torment. Yet, eventually curiosity takes the heels and he says:
“How the hell did you end up here nearly dead?”
“Why’d you care to know?” It’s the answer you give him.
There is tension in the air. You look at each other as if you are about to draw your sabers and engage in a battle. Anakin’s hand is already resting on his side.
“If you feel like putting an end to my life”, you tell him, “what’s stopping you?”
“Believe me, I would if I could.” Anakin clenches his jaw. “The only reason why I don’t is because that is not the Jedi way. I wonder, though, why isn’t your boss here? Where is Dooku, Y/N?”
“I don’t know. He used to trust in me, clearly he doesn’t anymore.” How easily you give the information seems to surprise you both.
Anakin folds his arms, distrustful. But he senses you are not telling lies.
“Why would you think that?”
Since you are a prisoner whose former allegiance led you to your current state, you know you owe nothing to Dooku anymore.
“Because he conducted me to a trap. He wanted to have me dead. The reason why, we can only speculate.” Giving the look in his eyes, you throw your hands exasperatedly in the air. “Look, I have no reason to deceive you. I know my past of bad doings proceed me, a reputation is always after my name when I come to places, but whilst I may be many things dishonest is not one of them.”
Anakin frowns at you, but says nothing. It’s a long journey and he opts to call his master instead. As he does so, you are left there in the cabin. You notice your saber has been taken away from you, but the worst is not this. It’s to be left with your thoughts.
Someone would say that no one is completely bad that no good can flourish from the inside. Once upon a time, you’d laugh at this romantic philosophy, but now… When looking down at your heart, you are desperate for redemption.
Your pride, however, is like a flying demon who refuses to let go of the prey, which is your good self, haunted and corrupted by dark forces. You are broken, and part of you reminds you constantly that there’s no salvation for you.
Silence becomes unbearable to your conscience. If that is what’ll be of you in a cellar, the despair seems to dig its claws in you. You close your eyes, decided to meditate when the door opens again and here’s Skywalker right before you.
“I want to collaborate”, you say. “I don’t care what it costs me. I want to see Dooku dead. It’s only fair, eye to eye.”
Anakin’s eyes are fixed on yours and you don’t read a good judgement in them.
“You will collaborate, but not how you demand it. You shall tell the Jedi Council all you know and it is only then you will meet your fate at the cellar, where I hope you stay for good.”
“For a Jedi, you carry a lot of anger in you.” It’s all you say, rather melancholically. “Been there, done that. The result is terrible.” You snort at yourself.
Something about your self hatred captures Anakin’s attention.
“What makes you think I will end up like you?”
“I don’t.” You blow away a few locks that fall in your face, since your hands are tied in chains. “But I know what I feel. Truth be told, I deserve it.” You smirk disdainfully.
However, the effect of your words have a different weight to Anakin’s perspective. He begins to see you are not entirely bad and besides if he does give in to hate you, as he is inclined to, Anakin might equal himself to an agent of dark forces like you which he doesn’t want to.
“Self pity is not going to convince me you are a poor lamb, offered to the sacrifice of the Sith Lord.”
You furrow your eyebrows at him.
“I told you what I know. Why are you still here, Jedi?”
“Because”, Anakin takes a seat on the opposite where yours is, “I think there is something else you’re not telling me.”
You don’t answer him. In fact, you turn your face away and slid back to litter. Anakin is patient…for some time, but he ends up leaving you due to your refusal to cooperate with him.
Once the door closes, you fall prey to yourself. As you drift to sleep, a world of fire and blood prosecutes you. The judge is your conscience and you are condemned to an eternal misery. It doesn’t, however, generate hate. Instead, it leads you to suffering.
In the back of your mind, there is the image of your mother, your father… A family you left behind. What had happened? How did you become Dooku’s apprentice? How did you drown yourself in dark magic?
How did the good girl go bad?
I was never good, you hiss at your conscience as you turn from one side to another. Until the memory where you used your saber to sacrifice the one you loved the most comes.
When you gave the last drop of goodness. When you fell.
You wake up tormented, breathless. You don’t realize you are sobbing until you find Anakin watching you, surprised to find you in a deplorable state.
You are devastated, desolated. Anakin cannot help but pity you. If you were entirely bad, would you feel this way? A question he has yet to uncover the answer.
“What’s this?”
He knows his question comes out ruder than he thought, but Anakin doesn’t know how else to put. What draws him to you is the good feeling that is starting to bloom, which gets his interest.
You look at him, startled. You come to realize you are exposed to him, nude in soul, sentiments crudely exhibited right in your eyes. It is too late to mask them, to hide away in your old self. What’s this tempest that has brought you from the naughtiness?
Something about you inspires Anakin in untying the ropes that had chained you to the litter you’ve been since you were captured.
“It’s dark torture for you.” You answer him dryly. “Like the poison boiling the blood, twisting what’s healthy into disease.”
“You are not healthy, Y/N. To submit yourself to Dooku? That cannot be stated as such.” Anakin watches you.
Your long hair, dark as coal, is a complete mess; some locks are partly omitting your features and he hesitantly brushes them away. It’s when your eyes meet. His blue ones stare into your yellow irises, however, Anakin notices that in your right eye the intensity of the color is beginning to dissipate: the conflict in you starts to show and he has a glimpse of the real color of your irises.
***
“I sense there is good in her.” Anakin surprises himself by advocating in your favor.
Obi-Wan turns at him as if Anakin went mad.
“Good in Y/N? Anakin, are you out of your mind? She did…”
“There is no need to list me her deeds, Master.” Anakin interrupts him, impatiently so. “But you don’t know what I saw. That she was left to die by the man she was devoted to produced in her some shock that I swear I saw the original color that once painted her irises.”
Obi-Wan looks thoughtful.
“Interesting. Well, keep an eye in Y/N, Anakin. She’ll still be judged for her crimes, though.”
Anakin has a plan.
“I don’t know why I’m doing this. It’s your fault that you instigate me the hero syndrome.” He smirks at his Master, who smiles against his will.
“Very funny, Anakin.”
So the two part. All the while this happens, you are taken to a provisory custody. You have the opportunity to clean yourself and dress new clothes. After that you are surprised to see the Jedi with you in the cell.
“What brings you here?”
“I think there are more informations you have than you are willing to share.”
You sigh impatiently.
“I told you, Jedi. I told you everything I know.” You snort at him. “All I want is…”
“…revenge. You Sith never change.” Anakin rolls his eyes. “Try surprising me.”
You detest that cocky guy. Your thought seems to entertain him because he smirks at you.
“I am not here to do so, Skywalker.” You snap back.
The two of you stare at each other. You are annoying and he’s obnoxious, but how come neither seem to turn the back to other?
Silence yet remains when Anakin says:
“You know, if you cooperate I could help your cause. Are you okay with going to the prison without a fight? Honestly, Y/N, I’m beginning to think I underestimated you.”
You walk up to him and would have slapped his face for his imprudence had he not held your wrist.
“Careful, Y/N. I’m here to bargain for you and you’re not helping yourself.”
“I don’t need your help.” But you hesitate because you come to realize this is not the wisest thing to say. His smirk shows you so, much to your annoyance. “Why aren’t you leaving me to die, Skywalker? Isn’t it easier for you?”
“It is, but I don’t think you are worthy to be sent to death.” What he is about to say will overpower any darkness that might still hold a grip onto your heart. “A fighter like you doesn’t concede to a few battles lost. There is good in you, Y/N, and I am not going to give up on you, no matter what you say.”
***
As you and Anakin search for Count Dooku, his whereabouts remain difficult to find. The Jedi comes to notice that little by little some traces of darkness are slowly fading away from you.
However unaware you are to details as these, you come to realize you’ve grown tired of the guilt, of always choosing the wrong paths. There is a moment that revenge seems useless to you.
“It is exhausting.” You tell him as you land to planet Y/C to get supplies. It’s raining and Anakin senses a storm is coming so he decides to rent a room in a nearby hotel. “The hatred, the angst, the dark. In the beginning, to hold such power was alluring. But at what cost?”
Anakin turns at you as he leads you to the hotel.
“It’s all gone now. The past cannot be changed, Y/N, but it can be cured.”
You don’t say anything. Your eyes are puddled with tears. As you go inside the hotel, rain starts getting heavier outside, but the sound comforts you. Anakin sees how it has the effect to calm you.
“And here’s your room.” You two are told before the key is given to Anakin.
To your dismay there is only one bed. Anakin sighs.
“…for fuck’s sake. Well I’ll take the couch.” He doesn’t wait for your reaction, he needs a shower and will get one.
Although embarrassed you might be with this situation, you are found conflicted with your feelings. As you tie your hair in a ponytail, you begin to separate your clothes before being drawn to the window.
Pulling away the curtains, you sigh almost in relief when seeing the storm outside. It feels like home to you, providing you an strange peace; as if you were famine after a long time emerged in chaos and now you are finally fed with comfort.
You close your eyes. You concentrate in the rain, the sound of it makes you chill. The nothingness calms you, helps you see reason where before you could not. Still… Past is always there to play tricks at your mind, using memories to distorce facts.
When you open them, you feel your cheeks are wet. How long have you been crying? You are quick to rub your eyes, but when you turn around, you see Anakin leaving bathroom. The Jedi is shirtless, his hair is wet and his curls…make him adorable.
As if Anakin captures your thoughts, his eyes go straight to you. You are quick to get your clothes and run to the bathroom, your face completely a bright shade of pink, much to his delight.
Once you are clean, you wear a white blouse and a pair of black pants. You are suddenly shy when noticing the blouse does show your nipples. This never bothered you before, though, why being so obtuse about it now?
Nevertheless, you fold your arms and leave bathroom faking an arrogance that, in fact, has long left you. But Anakin knows it better when seeing you. The fragility is temporary, like an eggshell about to break and leave something stronger and better to come soon.
He takes a seat next to you, not without coming to notice the change in your aura and the beauty that rises from it. Your face, completely clean of the dark make up you used to wear, shows Anakin delicate features and full lips that are so inviting. Though your left eye is yellow, he pleasant notices the right one is y/c. A good sign.
Your hair, black as coal, is loose on your back—acquiring a shine that nearly makes it look like dark blue. Your y/c skin is soft and… and it’s when his eyes linger at your chest and at your stiffed nipples. Anakin’s throat is dried.
He quickly looks away as you seem to notice his presence.
“You may stay if you like.” You fold your arms again.
“I appreciate it.” Anakin doesn’t move away. “May I tell you a secret, Y/N?”
You are surprised to notice he actually trusts in you. Even more than that, you in fact return that trust.
“Yes. What’s it… Anakin?”
It’s a different sensation to pronounce his name. And to know the effect it has on him makes your heart pound. His smile is so warm and affectionate. You blush.
“Anakin, don’t look at me like that.”
“Like what?” He clearly forgets what he is about to say, distracted by you; the tenderness that flows with you. Anakin feels the change operating in the Force.
“Like I am worthy of your fondness.” You mumble.
Anakin makes sure to step closer to where you stand. His hands work to unfold your arms, locking his fingers with you; though he eventually releases the other to lift your chin. So your eyes meet and your souls speak.
“I’ve once followed the path of vengeance. I tried saving my mother but I couldn’t. But the suffering that came along with it was not deserving the time wasted in dwelling on it. I’ve learned the lesson in the most difficult way.” He gently caresses your cheek before letting his fingertips brush your jawline, moving from your neck right to your hair. “Let me love you, Y/N. And there will be no regrets to recollect.”
You forget how to breathe when your hands cup his cheeks and your lips pursuit his, pairing your tongue with his in an endless dance where fire dictates the rhythm. You experience bliss when his arms are all around you, where the kiss deepens, elevating you to somewhere divine.
However, as passionate it is, the burn turns to an ache—one of the kind you left with the ghost of your beloved so many years ago. Now you are alive, not a woman dusted into wind, a memory of your old identity, mounded to placate the designs of the Sith.
He knows it. Anakin’s smile brightens the most when parting the kiss to mewl under the love you irradiate.
“Never let me go, Ani.” You whisper, helping him get rid of his shirt.
Your place your hands over his muscles; your fingertips slowly caress his arms, neck and shoulders before resting over his abs. You nuzzle your nose against his neck as he rocks you against him; you stay like this for a while, breathing his sweet scent drives you crazy.
And you come to realize that loving him moderately is not an option. You hesitate when such thought occurs you. You panic when you become aware that he’s more than the man who saved you.
Once the enemy, now the lover.
“Let me hush your fears.” Anakin hears your heart beating against your chest. He leans forward to peck your lips once more before lifting your shirt and tossing aside. The way he looks at you makes you feel wanted, desired. “You are gorgeous, my love.”
You like how he devours your chest with his eyes, seeing the lust in his blue tempestful irises only reinforcing yours. His hands are careful with you, and you arch your back, already wet when he helps you get rid of your pants.
He is down of his knees, caressing your thighs as he removes your panties. Anakin smirks when seeing you rub a leg against the other to help ease the friction. You breathe in anticipation, so hungry for his touch.
“Ani… don’t make me beg.” You whisper.
“I want this to be perfect”, Anakin tells you before rising his right hand all the whilst resting his left one on your waist.
His eyes are glued on yours, transfixed by your beauty. The fallen angel seems to rise to heavenly mercy as he inserts a finger so indecently into your core that you gasp loudly.
“You are dripping”, Anakin observes maliciously as he inserts another finger. “Oh my maker! You test me, love.”
It doesn’t help you that his left hand moved up to your chest. He uses his fingers to stroke each breast, caressing it slowly—yes, Anakin is taking things slow to you because he wants to enjoy every second with you. You moan loudly, barely minding the sounds that come from you.
“Yes, babe. Is it good?” He asks you.
Something about his eyes makes you sigh in content. You move your hips right against his fingers, enjoying the waves of pleasure that make your mind completely blank.
“Yes, Ani. It’s so good!”
Both of his hands are now around your hips and you are about to pout when he replaces his fingers with his tongue. You need to find support on the wall because otherwise your knees would go week.
“Anakin!”
Your hands play with his hair all the while you ride his face. It makes you mewl under his power. You are now absolutely devastated by these new feelings he inspires you. Before you know you are coming undone and the moans that leave your mouth turn into now screams that echo in this room.
You are barely able to walk after this round, and it’s only the beginning. You help Anakin to stand but you push right him to bed.
“Oh my darling, let me reward you…” you brush your lips against his right before your hands move from his neck to his abs until these are finally settled in his stiffness under his pants. All the while you are kissing his jawline down to his neck, you begin to unlace his pants and tend his manhood gently.
“Y/N…” his breath is heavy and your name comes like a song from his lips. “Angel, what are you… Oh, Maker!”
To say Anakin never desired you like this would incur in lies. Though he doesn’t know when from enemy you’ve become something more, how many were the times his eyes scanned your body? Or that he touched himself thinking about you?
As he watches you begin to go down on your knees, Anakin breathes in anticipation. His hands caress your face, stroking your skin ever so soft before running to your hair. He gently pulls your hair before you are about to engulf him.
“Hmm. So thirsty are you?” He smirks, enjoying the power he has over you. Anakin does feel your ache right in between your legs, his eyes staring at your hard nipples, but how you are so undone before he even begins with you does ignite him a new sensation.
“Yes, my love.” You stroke him, eyes glued on his, a mischief in your lips. “Let me redeem myself from all the pain I’ve caused you.”
Anakin smirks down at you and even when you take his length at long last, he is surprised you do so. He shuts his eyes, enjoying to pump it right against your lips even if he does so in the gentlest possible way.
It arouses him further to feel your moans vibrating against his manhood. But he has other plans for his seed—he is not wasting them at your mouth. So when Anakin feels he is about to come, he raises you kindly and lies you down in bed.
His lips are pursuing yours hungrily as he finally thrusts in you. You gasp pleasantly, wrapping your legs around his waist. As you lay your head back to the pillow, Anakin breaks the kiss to move to your chest, his tongue settling right around your nipples.
“Oh Maker!” You cry out loud much to his pleasure.
As he adjusts his hips to move with yours, your bodies are now synchronized. All the while he thrusts in you, Anakin intercalates it with his fingers right deep inside you, making you squirm.
“Anakin!” You whimper, earning him a malicious smirk.
“Sing to me, angel.” He whispers in your ear. “I’m ruining you, my love.”
You roll your eyes as your legs begin to feel heavy, as you seem to get distant from your body, as if you are levitating. You arch your back, the mess you make in bed perceptible as sweat soaks the sheets.
Anakin smirks down at you as he watches you come undone, his right hand moving to your face to remove some hair that is glued in your skin. And right there, your body shakes and he feels right into his manhood all the juices you release.
Not long after, he comes right into you too. And you’ve never felt so amazed as you are now with his seeds right inside you.
***
The moment he sees you sleeping in his arms is when he realizes—as if there was ever the need of confirming it—that he loves you. Anakin, when surrounding your thoughts and sentiments, is more than happy to find the same in you, the mirror to what he feels for you in the exact same proportion.
As he strokes your long hair, seeing peace in your features for the first time, Anakin knows he’s already deeply attached to you. He’s not losing you to the dark side again, it’s a vow the Jedi makes to himself.
Anakin smiles as you cuddle onto him; even into your sleep, you unconsciously bury your head against his chest, clinging onto him like a child. There’s something beautiful in this simple gesture, in being loved like you love him. As he begins to drift himself to sleep, Anakin does so the happiest of the man that night.
***
But the greatest test is yet to come. In your opinion, redemption will be only a plausible reality to your heart and conscience the moment you defeat Dooku. It’s not about killing him, no—this would be revenge and part of you thinks that the old “eye for an eye” is not worth it anymore.
However, once you and Anakin finally discover the man’s whereabouts, is when the disagreement between you two rises.
“I need to fight him, my love.”
“No, you don’t. Don’t be stubborn, Y/N. That is not a mere man, Dooku is a Sith Lord.” Anakin tells you.
You reach out for him, hands cupping his face, gently putting his curls behind his ear.
“I know. But because I’ve been familiar with his techniques, maybe I have a chance. I cannot let this man go unpunished. I need to try.”
“The Jedis can do that.”
You smile when remembering the countless times you’ve made things difficult to Obi-Wan.
“Just let me try.”
“I will not risk your life, Y/N. I am not going to lose you.”
“You won’t.” It’s when you have an idea. “Call Obi-Wan. Perhaps it is time for all of us work together at last.”
***
“You don’t have to prove yourself to anyone.” Anakin is reluctant to let you go in this mission.
“I have to agree with Anakin, Y/N.” Obi-Wan is present in this as well, having met you two somewhere in between the planet where Dooku is located and where the Master Jedi has been. “There is little need to fight him alone to ensure your redemption. Although it is the first time I see a Sith going back from darkness, it doesn’t mean we are willing to risk you. There are other ways to clear your path. Besides, revenge is not the Jedi way.”
“I’m not fighting him to kill the man, Master Kenobi. I don’t want Dooku dead, despite a part of me wishing him so, otherwise he’d not continuously to pose a threat to the Galaxy. He’s the hand behind the Separatists in this endless war, but if I may overpower him…” you leave your point in the air.
Obi-Wan strokes his chin, looking thoughtful. Anakin says:
“Humiliating such a devil creature will not redeem him either. Unlike you, he’s lost to the dark for good.”
You smile at him.
“Believe me, my love, I know what I’m doing.”
Against his will, and because you are too stubborn to let this opportunity being carried out by the hands of others, Anakin lands the ship and watches you jump from it without looking back. His eyes follow your moves, the dark cape omitting your frame as rain falls over you. His heart aches.
“Not everything is lost, Anakin.” Obi-Wan breaks the silence by filling it with hope. “I, in fact, have a good feeling about this.”
“I pray you are right in this, Master.”
***
The grand salon is poorly illuminated, but you don’t need it to see right through it. Dooku smirks as soon as you step inside.
“So you are alive, Y/N. I should have made sure myself that you would not come back from the dead.”
“I don’t think you strike me as a man who does the dirty work, Dooku.” Your pick your saber and prepares to fight. “A coward is what you are.”
He frowns at you, sensing there is no more darkness in you—or very little to come to surface anyway. His two red lightsabers are now in each hand.
“We will see if you are as courageous as you claim, Y/N.”
The fight begins. You are patient, not moved by angst. But the sentiment of vengeance has not been entirely defeated.
“I see you are about to defect again, will you not?” Dooku smirks at you.
You narrow your eyes, not allowing him to break into your weaknesses and turn them against you. To oppose Dooku is an art few would master. Your skills, as fallible as they might be, resist his blows. He does not like that.
Hate is his driving force as patience becomes yours. The fight is balanced, to each attack a better defense. You begin to transpire.
Will you be able to overpower your former Master?
***
“I worry for Y/N.” Anakin says once he and Obi-Wan reunite after his Master contacts Windu and his men. “As strong as she may be, Dooku is stronger.”
Obi-Wan knows his fellow Jedi and former Padawan is moved more by his attachment than reason when he says so. He shakes his head. Typical of Anakin, to fall for those he is supposed to help. I should have seen that coming.
“You underestimate Y/N. The fight is surprisingly equal. You should start being reasonable at least once in your life, Anakin. Otherwise your often good judgements will be clouded by your impulsiveness.”
Anakin raises an eyebrow at him.
“Your capacity to make a compliment never ceases to bewilder me.”
Obi-Wan rolls his eyes.
“Lovely as always, Anakin.”
***
Zoom.
Zoom.
Zooooom.
Ah, had you been a Jedi!
Such is Obi-Wan’s thought as he watches your skillful maneuvers counterattacking Dooku’s blows. Anakin told his master your story: how the Sith Lord had sensed Force in you and basically catapulted you into becoming an agent of the dark forces.
But he too is impressed by your trainings, readapted to better use. Nonetheless, these lack the resistance that is part of the Jedi training. So eventually you are bent to a muscle cramp and it nearly costs your life.
“Wait”, says Obi-Wan, preventing Anakin’s imprudence again. “This is not the time.”
“I am not losing her!”
“Shush.” He hisses lowly. “Otherwise every effort of Y/N will be for nothing. We must not give our positions away before time.”
In the meantime, you are getting yourself tired. You don’t seem able to resist him further.
“Give up!” Dooku yells at you.
He pushes you again and again, trying to subjugate you, to placate you. To have you dead again. To fix the mistake of never making sure you breathed no more.
However, your concentration skills elevate your shields. You resist him. But for how much longer? The cramps are unbearable and for about a second your knee weakens and you slip, almost getting yourself killed. His saber manages to make a scratch in your shoulder—and how it burns you!
It’s enough to provide the enemy more advantage. It’s when you start levitating. He is about to twist your neck and break it, but it would be so easy to destroy you! Because you’ve been the only one so far that got close to defeat him, he intends to torture you.
And you know that, so you smirk down at him.
“You may kill me now, Dooku, but the fact I got close to overpower you will be eternally engraved in the back of your mind. You are not as invincible as you like to think.”
You begin to suffocate. You are ready to brace death if necessary. You know you successfully planted the seed of self discord. The hate in his eyes shows you did overpower him, his concept of darkness, his ego. To you, the humiliation that he won’t be able to forget—a reminder of his weakness—will always remain as part of him however the count tries to erase it of his mind.
Comical this might’ve been had it not been so tragic. But one cannot not live whilst the other breathes.
Hence why he comes to die. And you survive him.
***
“Where is Y/N? Is she well? Is she all right?” Anakin inquires after you. He had come to discover the main head behind the rise of the Sith and was instructed by Obi-Wan to chase the Chancellor and arrest him. In short: there are Siths no more and the Republic prevails intact. The clonic wars finally come to an end.
“She is, Skywalker.” Windu tells him. “She’s being well cared by the medical droids.”
“Her tactics did work in the end.” Obi-Wan says pleased.
“Because of her efforts in eradicating the Sith, she’s clean of the charges against her.” Windu declares.
“Much to teach us she has.” Interferes Yoda. “To the shadows those who have been tempted, leave to them we do. Vain our paths have become.”
But Anakin, pleased he may be with your rehabilitation, to the redemption he helped you earn, needs to see for himself you are well. And he doesn’t take long to find you resting. Your semblance is in peace and there is only a scar in your shoulder to remind you of the battle.
He watches you dream a peaceful dream, serenity stamped in your face. Anakin takes a seat by your side and mumbles:
“Your heart is not lost to dark. You are going home with me. A better horizon awaits.”
He takes your hand and there presses a kiss. Never before had Anakin been in such a blissful peace.
Epilogue
To wake in his arms is more than you deserve. To watch him sleep, his chest going up and down…The light of your life, your redeemer, your savior. You lean to caress his back, the scenes of the night before still giving you chills.
You admire his well built muscles and a blush comes uninvited to your cheeks because you never cease to admire his physique. He is so devilish handsome that it takes your breath away.
Your fingers move from his arm, up to his shoulder before resting on the back of his neck, wrapping around his curls. Little by little he moves, waking up.
And you are there to greet him with love, to welcome him with the warmest of the kisses. He smiles at you, already listening to your heart beat. That he is the cause of why it races loud makes him so proud of himself.
“Good morning, princess.” He pulls you right against his chest and you are gladly engulfed in his arms. “Did you sleep well?”
“Yes, my darling. Did you?” You plant soft kisses in his neck.
“How could I not when you’re with me?” Anakin smiles down at you.
“Must you go to work today, though?” You ask him, not minding how selfish you sound as you hug him close.
“You are coming with me, remember? It’s the feast day to commemorate the fall of the Sith, their defeat for good.” Anakin laughs heartily. He then rolls over you. “I will parade you proudly. My wife, the heroine of the Republic.”
You blush a deep shade of red that makes Anakin beam.
“Anakin!” You giggle. “Don’t be silly!”
He nuzzles against your neck.
“Why, it’s true.”
“No. That is not. But you know what is?”
You gently make him look at you, melting inside upon seeing the warm smile that spreads fully in his lips.
“Yeah?”
“That you brought me back to life, that you saved me. And I will always love you for that, my husband. You are the hero I needed.”
And so he leans to kiss you, your hearts beating as one.
#star wars#imagine Star Wars#star wars imagine#anakin skywalker x y/n#anakin skywalker x reader#anakin skywalker x you#anakin skywalker#Anakin Skywalker smut
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Characters are not people (and the importance of planning and fairness of character arcs).
A character I liked recently had a very tragic end. He had suffered a lot as an outcast and it wasn't totally unexpected in a way. Still, not only me but the whole fandom got that sense of bitterness, no matter how logical seemed at first. Was pretty much a consensus. I tried to understand why.
Then I saw: It's for nothing. He died continuing to suffer, being hated, for no reason and without any justice or narrative sense. The terrible thing hit: he needn't have died. It could have been resolved in another way. Was like saying: "strange, different and outcast people, no matter how hard they try to overcome and find love and understanding, they will die in hate and pain".
Of course, wasn't the author's intention, but it comes out quite like this. Because other characters in these respects survived the so-called worst ordeals.
Reflecting on this, I came to an interesting conclusion and that inspired me to write what I thought would make good writing advice both for myself and to help should anyone want it:
Characters aren't people.
What do I mean?
Think about us.
Sometimes things don't go as planned and we end up with totally different results even though we did everything right. Or we achieve something when everything was falling apart and there was no way out. Just chance sometimes.
Our characters aren't people. The chance card doesn't work with them because there are authors. And authors dictate all the rules.
Hence, enter what I mean:
As writers, we have to give meaning, motivation, and in the best way we can, irreversibility to a character arc AND how it might sound. Because in the end, if we don't give them a satisfying and justified ending, it's not going to be well written.
Of course, in real life, there are circumstances beyond our control and unexpected events. Both just and unjust. However, in history, you decide the facts. That traumatic conga given to some character or cradle privileges will not be life's work, but yours.
No matter how much attachment, grief and suffering a certain character leaves upon dying or good feelings upon winning and getting what they wanted, it needs to make narrative sense. It has to be explained and not just played out.
Even what may seem like chance in the stories and for the characters will be you, needing to be planned and executed in a satisfactory manner.
Prim from The Hunger Games dying. Tadashi dying in Big Hero 6. The fairy godmother showing up in Cinderella when she needed it most. Midorya becoming the heir to the One for All from All Might. Even if in the narrative they are shown as coincidences of life, good or bad, they are crucial events and translate messages. It's all about payoff.
For example, killing a character suffering from depression trying to have a happy life and move beyond suffering leaves a bitter taste in the mouth. It is frustrating.
This happens in real life, often even, sad as it is. But the authors, not real life, are the ones who drive the story. And if you saw the above, you would hardly blame the event that killed them but the author who just made a mistake and ruined what would be a beautiful and inspiring message.
Sure, characters like that can die, terribly at the hands of the villain if you want. It's your story. But not without impact on the plot, not for nothing in the plot. Not without seeming like that was the fate that made the most sense for the character. Not without having a good point or sensibility while executing that idea.
And if you, for example, kill only depressed people because they might have, statistically, more chances of that in real life as the only justification it will sound… bad. Very bad. Yikes. Stop, rethink, and do it again. After all, we are not perfect and we can improve. Mistakes are normal.
We just have to remember that the fates of our Ocs are not simple works of chance or randomness.
Suffering and tragedies, or joy and rewards cannot be given for shock value.
Because in the end, characters aren't people.
They are a medium.
#writing#writing tips#writing advice#writing help#writeblr#Take it with a grain of salt#It's just one facet of things and it may not work for you and that's okay. I'm just another blog in the great sea of tumblr#after all
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Zoey's Villain Arc
I want to get this theory out and on paper before reading/finishing Zoey Is Too Drunk for this Dystopia. This will reference plot points from the first two books in the series and contain nothing from the third.
I believe the ultimate arc of the Zoey Ashe series is her slide into villainy. And that this will happen without her internally feeling like a more callous or bad person. It will be an example of the political idea that there is no ethical way to be a billionaire, and that privilege inherently corrupts in a way that can't be fixed by putting a "good person" into power.
In the first book, Zoey doesn't want Athur's money, power or privilege. She's forced into situations at the threat of her life, and spends 99% of the book just trying to survive. At the end, it's only vaguely hinted she might stick around instead of just going back home. But there's scenes and hints of her changing things- like the pizza scene in squatterville. It's something of a left-leaning/liberal power fantasy. If a poor (or at least "average") person got access to billions of dollars, they'd fix the system, they'd be more humane, they'd use that power for good.
Then there's book two. And arguably, Zoey is fixing things. She's a lot less directly violent in her business than Arthur ever was. She's arranging public transit for folks who need it. She's divesting from unethical practices.
Except.
The entire point of the book is how much bigger the machine is than her. There's a running joke (/not a joke) that Zoey owns several businesses without knowing what they are or what they do. That her innocuous actions (like asking about a noise in the AC) have drastic ripple effects. She's doing better than Arthur, but hey, Arthur's dad was even worse...
I see the opening scene (and the conversation with Shae afterwards) as super critical to this. The young woman is as terrified of being in the Livingston house as Zoey was in book 2 (this is explicitly stated). And Zoey tries to reassure her with all the things the reader knows/is likely to think at this point: Will isn't that bad, they're trying to improve things compared to Arthur. But critically, Shae doesn't buy into it. As she points out, Will is still terrifying to the average person (and not seeing that says something about Zoey). And in terms of cleaning up the business, Zoey has kept the suits around, AKA the people that did all of the worst things for Arthur. After all, as Zoey points out, they're the ones that know how to run things...
So yeah, that's what I mean by villain arc. Not becoming the cannibal caricature that Zoey's harassers assume her to be, the cartoon villain. But I don't think the philosophy of these books can really allow Zoey to become a "good billionaire" and fix the system from the inside.
#zoey ashe series#jason pargin#zoey ashe#futuristic violence and fancy suits#zoey punches the future in the dick#fvafs#zptfitd
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ISKA-2's MASTERDOC
so i decided to collect all info i have on iska in one post, prepare yourselves.
iska-2 is an exo titan from tangled shore, currently living in sav's throne world. she's neurodivergent and a minor and has some cool survival skills, mostly travels alone. she's cheerful and somewhat naive, but honest, brave and really good at guessing anyone's intentions. not in a good relationships with the vanguad.
20 QUESTIONS
did this on twitter, will copy here
1. her ghost's name is saltpetre, and she's a thousand times more badass than iska herself
2. iska was rezzed on the tangled shore where her body was laying for a long time. saltpetre raised her almost from nothing. she lived there, in underground tunnels, for a long time after resurrection.
3. she was revived right after the red war, lived alone for ages, and then was kidnapped by a guardian and brought to the tower around season of the splicer. left again after season of the lost
4. iska uses arc only, because it's the most natural subclass for her and no one taught her anything else. but she learned some void tricks from lightbearer knights
5. she was very confused after the resurrection because saltpetre has begun to explain things and rules right away, not caring about her state of mind at all, and only thing iska wanted back then is eat sand
6. iska didn't struggle learning light at all, it was easier for her than use traditional weapons. light flows through her like a stream, and she has trouble holding it inside. you can receive electric shock if you touch her when she's sleeping
7. she doesn't remember anything but her name from her past, but saltpetre knows that she was a botanist from golden age colonial ship. she had a neural modulator to correct her mental state, but now it isn't working and no one cares about her that much to implant it again
8. she's too hyperactive and easily distracted to handle, so she's usually alone. iska feels more comfortable around aliens than other guardians and prefers their company, even if she has to establish connections for a long time
9. neither, because iska is afraid of drifter. she also is afraid of zavala, lord shaxx, mara sov, lord saladin, and eris morn (but respects her deeply)
10. she's totally ok with the darkness as power, but the witness and its disciples give her very bad feelings. she doesn't communicate with them nor interact with the pyramid ships
11. she's ok with the traveler and the light too, but she thinks a lot of guardians don't appreciate their gift enough. when she was resurrected, saltpetre gave her the rules that will control their relationships - no stupid things, no gross things, and no dangerous situations for the ghost. iska takes this seriously, she knows that saltpetre will continue her life alone if any rule is broken
12. despite everything, iska and saltpetre are in best relationships possible. saltpetre threatens to kill everyone who wants to harm iska, and iska respects saltpetre's gift. saltpetre tells that she rezzed her as a joke, but in fact she noticed iska's clear mind and honesty.
saltpetre has threatened to make a nice ghost-shaped hole in spider's head and called immaru "guardianless" she's a vile creature
13. iska was forced to be a guardian and she doesn't really want it. after the appearance of hive lightbearers she was really disappointed in the vanguard and left to live in the throne world
14. this is the most interesting thing, her nightmare is shaped like savathun. it is silent most of the time, just laughing at her struggles. that's why she is being questioned by the vanguard right now
15. iska's favourite guardian event is to land on a planet and survive for a month with nothing on hand. she may appear childish, but she is actually a very experienced ranger, she can use anything at her advantage
16. iska has no duty, she does whatever she wants. all the time. she enjoys making cave paintings, usually featuring her and important events in her life, or something she wants to happen. she communicates with aliens, success depends on the situation, but she's happy anyways
17. she doesn't interact with human civilians because she visits the tower rarely, but she has some connections with eliksni and hive lightbearers. she helps eliksni a lot, doing some tasks for them, and hive... it's difficult.
there is a hive technician, melakheth, who doesn't try to kill iska on sight. their relationships are far from friendly and they're still figuring each other out, but both are patient and working together building trust
18. iska could have all glimmer in the world, but she doesn't need any. cool rocks are more important
19. ISKA'S POCKETS
- a spotted rock
- some herbs
- a lighter
- dust from unknown places
- eliksni symbol of protection
20. iska's secret just before the exorcism iska visited savathun, and she whispered something to her. iska is silent and doesn't reveal her words to anyone, even her ghost. no one knows what savathun said to her back then.
fact!!! iska speaks eliksni better than human
REFS
painted this myself, sooo most accurate
without helmet
with helmet, front & back
FUN STUFF
you'rev
resurrection
tangled shore
throne world
iska and melakheth
more melakheth (last one is final design i think)
little things
that's all! you can write questions and comments about iska-2 in my ask box or how do you call it, i would be very happy to answer and illustrate
#wow you made it#congrats#destiny 2#destiny game#destiny art#hive destiny#destiny exo#destiny oc#iska-2#the hive#destiny ocs
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Editor’s note: The following interview was conducted before the SAG-AFTRA strike began on July 14, 2023.]
Rebecca Ferguson is ready for a break. She’s finished her A.D.R. (additional dialogue) on “Dune: Part Two,” the promotion chores on “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One” (her third in the series), and is on her way home to hang with her 16-year-old son and still-friendly first husband in Sweden.
She was prepared to go back to England’s Hoddesdon Studios to shoot the second season of “Silo,” the most popular series on AppleTV+, returning her to the lead role of Sheriff. Not necessary, as the day after we spoke, July 13, SAG-AFTRA announced they were going on strike. “The percentage of people fortunate enough to have a good life as actors have to fight for the other percentage,” she said on the phone.
The 39-year-old actress, who grew up in Stockholm, attended a bilingual English school, and trained as a dancer, has steadily built herself into a major star. Who else goes toe-to-toe with Tom Cruise and returns to do it again, twice, without simply being a romantic appendage? It makes perfect sense that her best friend on the set of “Dune” was Charlotte Rampling. “She’s absolutely exquisite,” she said. “I look up to and admire her ridiculously.”
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The actress rejects the notion of ever “going up against” Tom Cruise, who wanted her for Ilsa after seeing her in the “War of the Roses” mini-series “The White Queen.” “It’s not a battle,” she said. “You go in with the mission of trying to survive. It is written by the incredible Christopher McQuarrie, and Tom is part of that journey. They want phenomenal characters. It merged beautifully, the character [Ilsa] with me: the time, the place, the relationship with Tom all worked with well. The trajectory of this character is so complex and interesting to work with. I asked for a continuation. The story writes itself.”
The actress does not even try to keep up with Cruise. For one thing, she doesn’t perform all her own stunts. If she has to fall out of a speeding car, she leaves that to her beloved stunt double Lucy Cork.
Ferguson did, however, handle the climactic “Dead Reckoning” fight on the bridge herself, she said. “I tend to be running far behind, but I try. Tom is the movie. He represents ‘Mission,’ everything that’s good, and thankfully nothing bad has come from it. You are offered a palette of knowledge: you learn it and do it and embrace it. You also can choose to say ‘no.’ They will find a solution around it, you’re never forced to do it.”
She gamely tried to master riding a motorcycle, and had to earn a license. “You have to learn quickly,” she said. “I had to be ready to shoot soon. It was a 760 Triumph, a big motorbike. I am very strong, but being on one of these on a road in England going fast — the trainer said I was going too slow. ‘I need to get off; it’s not safe. I don’t trust myself.’ No worries! They had other options: Jennie [Tinmouth], the best motorcycle bike rider in the world.”
This “Mission: Impossible” installment boasts more women than usual including Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, Pom Klementieff, and Hayley Atwell. “‘Mission’ is probably the one franchise that knows how to write storylines for women,” said Ferguson, who takes the scripts as they come. “They break things down; there’s not a lot of going into detail about what happened. You do not talk about it. There’s always reasons why arcs go a certain way,” she said. I control my own destiny [as Ilsa], there are reasons why things happen.” (A very compelling notation, given what happens to Ilsa in the latest film.)
“Silo” has turned out to be the happiest experience of Ferguson’s career, partly because she is an executive producer, but mostly, she said, because showrunner-creator Graham Yost (“Speed”) runs a non-hierarchical set. “I don’t like it when people are more important than others,” she said. “A happy set becomes creative and a safe set becomes a safe space.”
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What’s most important with each character for Ferguson, besides building up the right physique, is to “create a silhouette,” she said. “Then you’ve nailed a memorable figure, say, Cruella de Vil, through movement.” Working with movement coach Alexandra Reynolds (“The Theory of Everything”) she expressed the trauma Juliette stores in her body. “She carries a lot of internal grief and internally, and is socially uncomfortable, and is walking away when people touch her. She’s tactile with her own tools and her own world,” Ferguson said. “I often take on powerful characters and portray regal princesses and countesses and concubines, so my agenda was to completely break down and find in myself the capacity to do something else with Juliette.”
At first when the mechanic is named sheriff, she wants to solve the mystery of her lover’s death. “I find Juliette selfish in the beginning, she’s a broken heroine who gradually realizes there are things bigger than herself,” she said. “I love where we are going to in Season 2. She definitely learns new tricks and things get very wet.”
Next up: “Dune: Part Two” (November 3, Warner Bros.) is in the hands of the editors and composer Hans Zimmer. Assuming the strikes are resolved by October, Ferguson will be back on the promo trail.
Returning to Lady Jessica offered a character in transition. “She starts as a powerful, knowledgeable, magical mother and protector on a quest and a journey to make Paul into the leader,” she said. “She’s on a path to see the creation she has made and how is this new Jessica in relation to what her son has become? He’s more forceful, what does she do? She’s a significantly important person to the Fremen.”
#rebecca ferguson#interview#mi5 interview#mi7 interview#silo interview#dune interview#dune part two interview
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002 Alina
how I feel about this character: I adore her! and also grieve for her. she had so much taken from her, and she is stripped of so much agency throughout the books, and all she experiences is tragedy after tragedy and the endless shaming from her peers as well as the narrative for a part of herself she should be growing to learn and love. I grieve the potential arc for her that was lost, and I think often of the tragedy in her character. I find her humor fun, and her full personality engaging and interesting. I like that she's so flawed and I like that she's so selfish and vindictive, in the same way that I like how loving and protective she can be, and how strong she is inside. my favorite part about her character is how conflicted she is about everything. the ways she struggles with knowing herself, and struggles with the leftover emotions from her time at the little palace and other traumas. she deserves the world.
all the people I ship romantically with this character: everyone! genya, mal, aleksander, zoya. even nikolai. I even like the crossover ships for her with the crows, although I'm not as fond of them. plus of course any poly combination of any of these.
my non-romantic OTP for this character: alina & genya is the ultimate brotp. I mean I ship them but their friendship is so good. I love it.
my unpopular opinion about this character: I have as many unpopular opinions about her as I do any other character for sab lol. I think that she's not some stalwart moral paladin and I don't get why people say she is. people also make her out to be more helpless or more vulnerable than she is, not to mention that they often mischaracterize her relationship with survival, trauma, and privilege. her ending was also tragic, and her arc was regressive, and imo fandom likes to use her to hate the characters around her more than they actually like or understand her as a character.
one thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: that she got the ending she deserved in the books - that the loss of her powers was either given a better narrative message, or that she didn't lose her powers at all. that she actually got to have any depth at all in the show, instead of all of her complexity and conflict and "bad" traits getting sanded down into nothing but performative bullshit.
my OTP: malarklina!! 💕
my cross over ship: alina/buffy sounds fun I'm ngl
a headcanon fact: alina is always burning hot to the touch. she knows the time of day based on the light around her. she can sustain small balls of light for long periods of time while not being around them. she's nonbinary with she/they pronouns and she's extremely bisexual. that she spends her time with mal after the books recovering from what should be acknowledged as a sudden and painful disability. that she sees the ghost of the darkling even after he's dead. that she's schizophrenic and has chronic fatigue. that she operates at some level on inhuman instincts tied to the nature of light & shadow. that she's not very good with kids because she struggles to convey empathy, but her protective instincts make her the safest person they trust to go to whenever they're afraid.
give me a character (x)
#alina starkov#shadow and bone#sab#grishaverse#asks and answers#ty for the ask ahhh!#myramblings#anon#ask games
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Burn Notice - S3 take two and some AU musings
Season three is when I became strongly Team!Fiona and I’d been fully on board with Sam since season two. Season three is also when Michael starts to became more obsessive and make more dangerous choices, and those things clashed badly on the first watch as I went into full Fiona and Sam protection mode XD
So, rewatching, and forearmed with knowledge of what’s coming, I could be more objective about Michael this time. He’s definitely doing some dickish things, and I still don’t like them, but I wasn’t as actively enraged by them the second time. And honestly, I suspect some of it’s also that I became a lot more sympathetic towards Michael in the later seasons. With everything that this show put the poor bastard through, it was impossible not to, especially in the first half of season seven.
Michael spends a fair bit of time dodging Fiona at the start of season three. She wants to talk about their relationship, what it means, and whether there’s a future here, and Michael’s all, ‘No time! Got to go! Later!’ which is pretty shitty of him. But he does eventually sit down and tell her what she doesn’t want to hear – that for him, the job comes first and it always will. Which sucks for Fiona, but it's Michael's choice, and at that point, it’s up to her to make her own. She can either accept that this is the guy she fell in love with, that he’s not going to change and live with it, or she can move on and find someone who’ll make her the priority.
The thing with Sam and the flight plans still bugs me. That’s a friendship with very little in the way of limitations, which is a damn good reason Michael should respect the few boundaries that there are, not push harder at them and expect they'll go away too. But Sam caves pretty easily on the first point, which is his call, and on the second point he (rightly) refuses to, and in the end Michael does accept a compromise. Not great behaviour, but Michael eventually recognises that. And the worst of Michael in that ep is partly explained by the fact that he’s simultaneously trying to deal with Larry, which is definitely a strain.
Michael’s deal with Strickler is what really raises all my hackles. Michael knows Strickler’s a snake, Fiona and Sam both loudly second him being a snake that Michael should have nothing to do with, and Michael goes for it anyway. Unlike in his dealings with Gilroy, there’s no argument here that Michael’s doing it for the greater good, to try and stop something nasty from happening. It’s entirely about what Michael wants, and it's a decision that nearly gets Fiona killed and does get Diego killed.
But it’s also a decision that sets into motion all the long, slow sequence of disaster that arcs through the rest of the show. Strickler leads directly to Gilroy, which leads to Simon and a deal with Management, and then Vaughn, and eventually to Anson. It’s a perspective that can only come up the second time through, and I’ve been trying to figure out how much, if any, of the decline might have been avoided if Michael had made a different choice here.
If not for Strickler, Gilroy probably wouldn’t have latched onto Michael. He would presumably still have been paid to free Simon, though, just found someone else to help him do it. So assuming all of that happened anyway, Simon would have been coming after Michael, with Michael knowing nothing about it in advance. But Simon would still have had to find Michael, and Michael would have been better situated to deal with it because he wouldn’t have already been in high stress mode with the police and the FBI after him.
Vaughn was able to get his hooks into Michael because he yanked him out from under arrest. If Michael had survived Simon without being arrested, would it have changed anything? Vaughn could presumably have approached Michael at some point, spun him the same tale of, ‘There are bad people and you can help us stop them.’ Michael wouldn’t have stayed to hear him out, though, if he had a choice. He would have told Vaughn to go screw himself, and Management didn’t try coming to Michael again until after he reached out to them, because they knew that.
So I’m left wondering what else might have made Michael desperate enough to go to Management. He might have if one of the team screwed up and got some major jail time, and Michael thought Management could get them out.
Unfortunately, I also have to conclude that Anson would have got bored of waiting for Michael to hang himself at some point, and done the same kind of set up-and-blackmail thing that he did with Larry and Fiona anyway. So there’s probably no getting away from that part, and on some level Michael was inherently screwed. But even then, all he had to do was NOT shoot his boss in the head in a public setting to avoid all the joys of season seven. Michael's usually so careful and logical and thorough with his pre-planning, which is great, because when he does things that are reactionary and impulsive, they're often not very good things...
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new question: favorite aspect of each dinaurian character? or just stuff you like or dislike about each in general
>:D
Duna: Unlike Raptin and Dynal, Duna really just regards the humans at first with indifference instead of like... active malice, which I find interesting. She was just doing her job. In the trio of Hunter, Rosie, and Duna, Duna has the braincell. Actually, even between the dinaurians she has the braincell. Kinda funny since shes like 14. The fact that she chooses to defy her entire species to help humanity after Hunter saves her, knowing the consequences, is really brave of her. She's quite compassionate, even if she's not as outwardly emotional, and her being more calm and logical is a nice contrast to rosie's energy and short-temperedness.
Raptin: Ah the angry raptor man. Like Duna, he was just doing his job, and tried to see it through to the end. His undying loyalty to his kind cannot be overlooked, even if he was a total bitch to humanity. That's probably why he's an Elite in the first place. He loves his people more than anything and will do anything to ensure their survival. Like yeah he fucks up majorly and I think Rosie should get to maim him (she should get to maim many people honestly), but I still like him lol. Nothing will justify that ugly ass green he has though, like the devs could have chosen any other shade of green?
Dynal: I've already mentioned him trying his best for his people (he and Raptin are similar in that regard) after the whole Guhnash ate their planet thing. Another thing I like is just his presence throughout the story. Everytime he shows up you get this feeling of "oh shit, that's a guy you don't wanna mess with". He exudes power and elegance, and this comes across pretty well in his battle form too. He even outsmarts the protags, disguising himself as Richmond to trick them into assembling and handing him the missing sub-idolcomp, raising the stakes and really showing off how much of a threat he is. Dynal means business, and he has no problems letting everyone know it. But even then, he has a high sense of honor and believes in a fair fight. I still find it kind of funny that one fight earned his respect (it didn't earn Raptin's) and losing the fight would not have stopped him from pressing the button, but he was just like "oh humans are cool now, guess I don't wanna make them extinct after all". Also I just really like his design and theme.
ALSO his stupid little evil laugh he does when he plots to get the sub-idolcomp back. Literally boo ah hahaha levels of cartoonish evil lmao
BONUS MINI RANT ABOUT THEIR APPEARANCES IN CHAMPIONS BECAUSE BRUH
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT?? Duna seems like herself, so I won't really talk about her.
One thing to note is how they all refer to humans as mammals in a more demeaning manner, and how every human runs from them. I refuse to believe EVERY human, especially in the world of fossil fighters, that they came across ran from them.
Raptin... bro... I get that you're a bitch but you had your arc last game. LIKE... he seems frustrated because people keep running away from him (he brings up the fact that humans look too greasy for him to EAT?? HELLO??), but Dino/Dina approaches him, and he's just mean to them. Probably why they run, Raptin. He does tell the protag that if they're lucky, Dynal won't eat them. Bro. Maybe don't spread rumors about your king EATING HUMANS? YOU KNOW, THE BEINGS YOU AND HIM SHARE A PLANET WITH NOW? Common Raptin L
DYNAL HOWEVER GOT THE WORST OF IT. HE IS SOOOO MEAN TO THIS HUMAN KID HE JUST MET. AFTER HIS CHARACTER ARC LAST GAME HE SHOULDN'T BE ACTING SO RUDE??? He should have been eager to test your strength but still courteous to you imo. Dynal's a good guy! Being mean to every human he meets would be fucking bad when you're trying to coexist with them, and he knows this!! GOD IT ANNOYS ME HOW THEY JUST MADE HIM THINK HE'S ABOVE HUMANS AGAIN.
Anyways none of the dlc stuff may even be canon so I'm probably just getting worked up over nothing.
#ask#zesty's ramblings#sorry if this ends up being like total word vomit#zesty is overthinking the funny rainbow dino game again
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ykw, pick 10 of your choice for mha
Worst part of canon
Star and Stripe. I like her character concept but she really has no reason to exist at all given how little she contributed plot.
which ship fans are the most annoying?
Toga/Ochako, but this is just because I really don't like the ship. I'm not really a huge shipper so I don't go looking in ship tags so, I don't actually think the shippers themselves are annoying (I wouldn't know), I just find the ship it's self annoying.
what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?
Probably Shigaraki, though Dabi's close second (There's more canon issues with him that would have soured me on him anyway which is why he loses). I'm just a little put off by how many of his fans tout him as the best written character--miles above the others in his complexity, and Hori's favorite. He's defiantly one of the deeper characters of the story, up there with Enji, and All Might, but sometimes it feels like people think the story was written specifically for his character which is taking it a bit far.
common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about
The idea Enji only changed because he got what he wanted, and that Touya's death should have been his wake up call.
Yes, Enji got the #1 spot, but that's not actually what he wanted--he wanted to be the strongest, to beat All Might. He never got to beat All Might the way he wanted and won on a technicality in his mind.
Meanwhile Touya's death only pushed Enji further into training Shoto, afraid that if Shoto didn't become #1 it would make Touya's death meaningless along with everything he did to his family. After Touya's death he was essentially fighting tooth and nail to avoid the outcome he eventually got--which was all the pain and hurt he caused his family being for nothing.
worst blorboficiation
I was going to say Touya, but then remembered Twice. I love Twice but I think people have sort of just overlooked or excused his bad actions since his death. I mean, I'm more than sick of hearing that he did everything for his friends, as of that is an inherently good thing.
Like, Twice has really gotten the tragic uwu angel treatment post death, and that's a bit annoying.
that one thing you see in fics all the time
Going back to what I said in a prior post, Tensei always having gone to UA--it's in a lot of fics with Aizawa and Present Mic. Also, Tensei being friends or knowing Manual.
there should be more of this type of fic/art
As a fan of both Stain and Tensei I sort of wish there were more fics with Tensei getting the news that Stain's free. Tenya too for that matter. I think it was actually a huge waste that Hori didn't have Tenya react or even see him find out that Stain was out there. I mean I get that Stain isn't really tied to Tenya's arc anymore (given they didn't even interact during the war) but it'd have been nice to at least have Tenya say something about it, even if it was him not being interested to really solidify his character growth.
part of canon you found tedious or boring
Izuku's emo arc (have no idea what it's official name is). Not a lot happened that was interesting and what few things that were, didn't get as much focus as I think they needed. I think it also suffered because we got such a small cool down after the first war. I just felt poorly paced, with not much time spent with anyone but Izuku which made it kind of hard to get through, especially when so many characters lacked a follow up after the war to show they survived/were okay.
topic that brings up the most rancid discourse
Anything Enji or Todofam related really. They always bring the drama. Hawks is a very close second.
common fandom complaint that you're sick of hearing
"x hero/civilain isn't being understanding of y lov villain!"
I get that Hori seems to be going for a 'forgive the villain' theme, but at the same time most of that characters yelling at the LoV are making more than reasonable statements, like Shoto telling Touya to stop hurting innocent people and focus his rage at the family instead, or Ochako saying she'd stop Toga if she's going to continue to kill/maim people. Like, I'm sorry but telling someone to stop murdering people isn't being rude.
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