There's something about Jim refusing to kill Archie, offering her a hand instead.
"It's just life."
"Not my life."
It's something about taking her hand and standing over Edward just the same and dealing the killing blow.
There's something about Izzy stepping forward, in the lonely wake of denials, of the quiet invisibility that comes when no one will look at you, and speaking Stede's name aloud for the first time. Someone is getting shot; he knows, and he decides that it will be him.
"You were going to do it anyway."
"I was."
There's something in this season setting up the crew choosing each other over their captains, about huddling together over the bloody corpse of a seagull, said to carry sailor's souls after they died; consuming Edward's soul in a hungry, pulsing knot , interrupted by Stede. And then hiding the truth from Stede in an effort to-what? Protect him? Protect each other?
Something about them putting Edward down, shutting Stede out, isolating the two of them in this all-encompassing tragic love while the crew grasp each other's arms and say, not us. Not today. Not anymore.
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a raksura core round-up post
for everyone’s incredibly niche raksura/crisis core AU needs (yes! for all ten of you!)
if you want:
humanoid dragon bee people worldbuilding, complete with scent marking and wings
all Raksura canon gender-locks stripped off
Cloud in particular being a short, feral, spikey ball of issues
the hazards of being a little shape-shifting predator guy in a world that fears shape-shifters
AGSZC (ASGZC? how do you decide on a single acronym, people?) with Cloud ignoring the fact that he’s been Wooed with grim determination
background dragon bee Aerith/Tifa, because the girls deserve better than any part of that mess
mad horny Sephiroth
Zack and Sephiroth being the source of all chaos, coincidentally, for some strange reason
Genesis and Angeal being the only source of stability, for some equally horrifyingly domestic reason
Sephiroth and Genesis being very big on sharing
long-suffering Kunsel and Cissnei, who just try to keep Zack alive despite his best efforts
gratuitous depictions of jewelry for everyone, because the Raksura go hard as hell
Aerith and Zack and their happy fun Midgar roadtrip time
“Midgar is not a place of honor. it’s just shit” - Angeal, 2k23
Cloud vs the mortifying ordeal of being known, round ∞
Genesis throwing an apple at Sephiroth on screen
Hojo 🤝 Jenova - the actual bad guys
warnings: implied/referenced past rape/non-con, primarily as a world building plot point and past threat from the Hojo & Jenova camp; see individual fics for further rating/violence warnings
series links
raksura core - the full series, from the top
wipe that ash from your mouth - Zack and Cloud Meetcute: Giant Chicken Tender Attack
body like a wreckage by the side of the road - Zack, Cloud, Kunsel, and Cissnei bonding on their roadtrip back to Edge
who could call you gentle now? - Genesis/Sephiroth banging in a hot tub. then meeting Cloud. this inevitably leads to Violence (chomping and biting and clawing and more violence, etc etc)
sing elegies to the exit wound - Sephiroth pouncing on Cloud when he tries to leave, like a malevolently horny pinball machine with claws
buried to your wrists in the dirt - a Dark Earth Below AU from the Books of the Raksura short stories; Cloud trying to find his place in Edge, while ASGZ desperately figure out how to break this man’s iron-clad self-control so they can all finally Smash
scrape the glass from your throat - the one where they’re all banging. at last. Cloud finds his home. (also, a roadtrip to Midgar, unanimously voted the worst court on the continent twenty years running)
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Conner! 🥺🥺🥺
How disconnected Sam has been really shows off how connected she is when it matters.
I'm living for all of these loving family feels 💜
Sam snapped immediately out of the timeline to help take her turn nursing. With her she brought cereal from 5-10 years from the future. The-- I know the point isn't to laugh at your own gags. But. The future cereal with the ectoplasm milk. All because Sam knows she has to feed a teen, and can't remember what else Teenagers eat. It's just such a soft funny moment to me shxhdjsjhs
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Fuck you, Stoker. I'm legitimately sobbing over a fictional nineteenth century doctor not feeling lonely for the first time in months.
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