There is just something so inherently romantic and erotic about dueling someone you consider a friend and THEN and fucking THEN instead of leaving them to die even though they thwarted your plans, you actively choose to pull them from the wreckage

This might just me being tired and dumb, but I kind of get how Ace having a more supportive family would lead to isolation? Like. People who have no family to rely on form their own, and that kind of bond can be beat by very little else. There's not only possibly shared trauma, but there's probably also a shared understanding that "we all we got". It gives a weird sense of hope to see someone else in your situation, someone who relates to you even a little bit, and you want more anything in the world for them to make it out and thrive, and you can trust that they want the same for you.

So with Ace, who's trauma (that we know about) mainly comes from association and the iverblot fights, it's a bit harder to make that bond. He (assumably) got all the love and support that he was supposed to get from his family. And yeah! Sure! He can still seek it out elsewhere! But it's a thing he already has, he already has somewhere to go at the end if the day for comfort.

This is actually a theme that I'm gonna play with in my 80s fic, Deuce is lower middle class, while Yuu is just a slightly glorified version if homeless. Ace is squarely middle class, if not upper middle, he never has to really want for anything. Not like Deuce and certainly not like Yuu.

Learning how to pinch for pennies and find deals are things that makes Aces life more convenient, but it's something that Deuce and Yuu need. And that's where the divide is.

He wants to take care of his friends (he's still in denial) more than anything, but he also feels like there's this weird line he can't cross, with him on one side and Yuu and Deuce on the other. It honestly doesn't help that Yuu has a separate, small friend group outside of him and Deuce that are all in the same "Shit is completely fucked right now but by God are we gonna make it out" boat. A boat that Ace will probably never be in. Ace loves his family and is grateful, and knows exactly how much he lucked out. But he still wants to have that bond. That "the world feels like it's ending but atleast we'll be going down together" type of bond. Comforting Yuu while they cry about not having heating in the winter will never be the same as having to suffer alongside them and know they were in this together. Trying to find the cheapest possible version of a food products with Deuce and discovering knock off brands that Ace would never imagine existing (who the hell made knock off cheerios?) Will never be the same as actually having to rely on those knock off and part time sales, and feeling a sense pride that they were able to save enough money this month that they could actually buy something nice. Ace probably won't ever be on that side of the invisible line.

He'll bring them to his side though. Ace wants to take care of them more than anything. He wants them in his life more than anything. And he'll have them. No matter what he has to do to make that happen.

Sorry if I missread your post and just dropped a huge angst bomb in your inbox! I just have thoughts and there are a lot of AceYuu and ADeuce moments in chapter three and one or two of them digs into this a little.

You didn't misread my post at all I swear we are sharing custody of a braincell because this is just *chef's kiss* exactly what I was thinking.

Having that solid middle class stability and parent's who genuinely love you and each other is nothing to be ashamed of, not that I think Ace has enough humility for that, but it does mean that he has a gap in his understanding for Deuce and especially Yuu's situation. I keep thinking about how he ended up eating those tarts because he skipped a meal over worrying about Yuu and their circumstances, he cares. He is crass and rude with it but he cares! I love how you say he'll bring them to his side of the line, that's exactly how I see him thinking about it.

Ace's isolation (in my view) seems to come from how much more he values his friendship with Yuu and Deuce over literally anyone else in the school. He'd benefit from talking to Jack and Epel more, they also have solid home lives and Jack at least I think has financially stable parents, but those guys aren't his people. For better or worse, for sickness or health, Yuu and Deuce are who he is sticking it out with. He'll never say it in game, but he really does love you both, in what way is of course up to the interpretation of the player.

but you know which one we both prefer frfr

totk trailer:

finally gave Ganon some fucking water

we get to fight with allies???

there is a man using a bucket as a helmet

FLYING BOATS???

we become a flying squirrel

mission impossible music

you can fuse a shield to a sword and it looks so stupid i love it

you can become a taxi

actual development of places!!!!

there is a new clothing item that includes multiple earrings for Link i am going to wear it all the time

my daughter out here dancing while fighting yes absolutely

time travel

Ganon also says no to clothing that covers his chest

Ganon has green skin???? pls no

New beings new beings new beings new beings!!!!!!!

get bubbled, idiot

ARBITERS GROUNDS

Game of the year

Not me creeping up to the wordcount of the fourth longest book ever written

wci doodles

god i wish my meds would let me think if i could think right now i'd be making such juicy mrs kaidou x mrs saiki falling in love and making out fanfiction

sometimes i wish i had an actual 9-5 but instead i have 'grad school time' which is roughly equivalent to 'you are mentally working any time you are awake even if you aren't Actually Working.' in other news im so fucking tired

I rewatched the ep while I work and I find it interesting that imogen casts detect thoughts and then has a slight pause before picking dusk. So for a second she either tried to stop herself from prying or thought about looking into laudna’s mind!

I absolutely believe that. And any other suspicions about Dusk aside, it also makes sense to me that Imogen didn't end up picking Laudna at the end, if only because- i think Imogen knows very well how Laudna feels about her. I mean that in the best possible way- I think they both know how much care is strung between them.

Imogen knows Laudna loves her, Imogen knows Laudna probably isn't viewing the interactions with Dusk in any special lens, or at least isn't quite in a space to, yet. If the push for the mindreading was going to come from what the fuck is going on there- Dusk's thoughts were probably going to lend more clarity to the specific things poking at Imogen.

(Ofc, one could also argue for the added layer of- if it was going to be something Imogen wouldn't like, for any reason- it would probably suck a lot more coming from Laudna-)

And then with all this she reads Dusk's mind and- its fucking EMPTY, there's NOTHING there, so like, hold the goddamn phone sending stone, because what the fuck?

My jaw has been hurting ALL DAY today and it has been MISERABLE.

I had a burrito for lunch and it really hurt to chew. I could barely even eat my dinner 'cause it hurt so much, and ibuprofen hasn't done a whole lot to help with the pain (my sibling told me I probably haven't taken enough but I'm too scared to take more than 2 pills at a time).

I feel kind of dumb for not getting it checked out but my jaw almost ALWAYS hurts so I thought the pain would lessen throughout the day (like it does sometimes on other days) but it didn't.

I think it maybe might be dislocated but I'm not sure?????? I didn't even do anything to hurt it though???????? I dunno and it's really freaking me out.

It's super late right now (it's after 1 am) so I can't go to a doctor to get it checked out.

I'm gonna keep an eye on things and see if things feel better in the morning. If it doesn't get better I'm gonna see if I can go in to my doctor's to get it looked at.

Wish me luck y'all.

*balled fists white knuckles fingernails leaving deep red marks* want to kiss my date

time to get high, sit with my cat, and listen to midwest emo reallyreally loud on my headphones until I dissolve into a little puddle

man this sucks i wish i was drawing instead

orange haired yoongi is giving me the WORST horny brainrot,, help

this week has been crazy busy for me and so i keep forgetting what this friday is and then suddenly it will hit me and i’m just. holy shit there’s two days until season two of vox machina!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just softblocked someone who was following me cause I’m not sure if they were serious or not but friendly reminder misandrists are not allowed here in fact we very much love men in this house ❤️

SLAMS HANDS ON DESK

THIS IS A MANGA COLORING

Noe is so freakin fuck beautiful I cry