“She has to trust someone. She loves her true friends but she doesn’t trust them now. She has to trust someone. She has to trust someone, and it has to be Steel.”

HELLO?????

Lucy Gray and Coriolanus make me think of that one quote about tragedies...we know the ending going in, we know they won't make it, that whatever they feel for each other isn't enough against power and society and the rest of the world, but the love is there, and that matters despite it all.

that drives the rest of the Hunger Games series later on, of course, but even if the book was a stand-alone...the two characters don't have to end up together for this to be a love story, love is not just a means to a happy ending, it is a force in itself.

their love was wrong and twisted and borne from terrible circumstances and it didn't last, but the fate of the world hinged on the fact it was ever there. even if it had no consequences further on in history, it was important that it was there. it's just so human.

the more things change, the more they stay the same

Why is Nador this way?

im going insane over this tweet because absolutely no one in the comments knew about ea-nasir?? no one had even heard about this or seen this photo before?? like??? i fully forgot that the story of ea-nasir and his mid copper is not an important historical event outside of tumblr dot com. i feel like i’ve been transported into a different and worse reality and i would like to go back

FUCKKKKKKK

gerard way, 2006 + jean seberg as st. joan of arc, 1957. getting their makeup done

HELLO????

Okay royal aus of dabihawks have just been on my mind for the past month but I cannot seem to choose between these four they all just make me go feral so I’m gonna present them starting with scenario 1 because all of them are pretty long:

Scenario 1: Prince Touya who was born with a weaker body so king enji practically buys a harpy Keigo for his son as his personal aide throughout life. The two end up growing up together with Keigo being at his side at all times and knowing exactly what to do anytime Touya’s body gives out on him. As time passes on and they become teens, the two begin to realize their love for one another. However, Touya must choose another royal to marry before he turns 18. He is told this when he is 17 giving him only one year to choose someone that isn’t Keigo while also never having the courage to confess to Keigo. Keigo being a harpy only meant to serve Touya has lost hope since he knows that Touya would never choose a servant harpy over another royal in a year. The two grow apart during this year, trying their best to loose feelings but always failing. Touya’s birthday was in January and it is now December, he has to choose now or else his father will choose for him. Keigo is also turning 17 that December and Touya decides to screw everything and just go for it. On Keigo’s 17th birthday, Touya kisses him and confesses his love for him. Keigo, of course, reciprocates but questions how on earth this would ever work. Touya decides that the both of them running away would be the best option here as once Touya was married off, the palace would have no use for Keigo and likely get rid of him. Touya wants them to runaway to the Harpy kingdom so that Keigo could learn who he was before he was sold off as a child. The only problem they face is someone trying to track them down and bring them back to enji but they don’t have time for that. They have less than a month to gather supplies and figure out routes to travel while also trying to build upon this new found love for one another.

Sorry I will type the other three people once I have time but for now here’s this!!

(Adding onto vexes being hated btw)

Maybe Scar just- genuinely thinks that they know he's a vex. He's got the vex wings, sharp teeth, magic, everything.

But the hermits legitimately don't know that he's a vex. Maybe Scar trained himself to always keep a glamour on for protection on his old server(s), to the point where he's always unconsciously keeping the glamour up. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy- the hermits don't know Scar's a vex and so they openly talk about how much they dislike them, which leads Scar (who believes they know he's a vex) to make a conscious effort to hide his vex features and stay away from people. Which in turn means that the hermits aren't going to learn that they're actively hurting their friend.

Big sadss all around :(

Nooooo :(((

Literally making a post to be booped

Thankyou for your services

i wasn't gonna b a freak about this on main but i literally can't stop thinking about it. SO. under a cut because i love yelling.

im like 99% sure this is the point when obito places yagura under his genjutsu and takes yagura as, essentially, his puppet for the next x number of years.

"You are going to be very useful to me."

and yagura looks so fucking scared. he can't be older than 13, recently made a jinchuuriki and even MORE recently a perfect one; depending on how long bee has had gyuuki, it's extremely likely that yagura is the first known perfect jinchuuriki. and he's probably just out patrolling or on a mission or something. comes across these three strangers, and all of a sudden, he's got no control over his own body anymore. no control over his mind anymore.

(side note, but i think a lot of people forget that those with a sharingan have the capability of controlling tailed beasts, which i think is why he didn't disrupt the jutsu his host was under, like we see gyuuki do for bee. anyway)

i've been operating under the assumption that he was essentially out cold for those ~9 years but now that im thinking about it, i think it was more of an off/on thing, where obito would activate the jutsu when he needed yagura to act for him. i don't think it was a constant controlling yagura thing.

we haven't seen a LOT of yagura in canon but what we HAVE seen i think says a lot about him. the first time we really see him is during kisame's backstory ep in 251; and he's, essentially, just obito's puppet.

(mangacap because im lazy. i've also never noticed how YOUNG he looks here and it breaks my heart)

obito is, ultimately, speaking through yagura here. he's extremely subdued, monotone, emotionless. and then obito comes out, yagura just. stands there. obito gives his whole "i'm madara, join me kisame" spiel, and yagura stands there. emotionless. still. silent.

and then kisame says, "so the person i believed to be the fourth mizukage was actually you all along?", implying that, no, yagura wasn't the one making the decisions. i think that's easy enough to assume given their whole, relationship? i guess? but either way.

we don't see yagura again until e329 when naruto is brought to the jinchuuriki mind plane with yagura, roshi, utakata, yugito, and fuu, as well as their respective bijuu. and we see yagura here acting friendly, diplomatic, and less formal than we saw in his initial introduction under obito.

yes this is the scene i clipped the other day i think about it a lot

ANYWAY, he's much more expressive than he was when we saw him. talkative, excitable, exuberant, diplomatic. mocking, even, when he asks in the anime what it was like to kiss sasuke ("sasuke? kisses? what was that like?" is the exact dub line btw). defensive over his reign, which is supremely interesting considering it's the bloodiest, darkest time in kiri history.

WHICH leads me to believe that he may not have been fully conscious over himself or his actions of the time. because how is this little "I WAS REALLY DISTINGUISHED! AND I'M AN ADULT!!!!" the same guy who brought us, "You know that the world is a sham." almost like they're two different people.

"but des," you ask, "this shows him dead. wouldn't he be a little more i actually don't know where i was going with this i just needed a transition to my next point ANYWAY.

i couldn't find this in the manga after a brief search but i'm talking about e456 during one of itachi's backstory episodes when he's brand new to the akatsuki. we meet juzo biwa, itachi's first partner, and a former kirinin sent back to kiri for this mission. a fight ensues, juzo dies, yagura is able to take the executioner's blade back to kiri.

we see yagura very clearly upset, angry, ready to fight.

the genjutsu being only controlling of him sometimes would explain, too, why he at the very least held more emotion here than he did during that initial scene.

he was, ultimately, still under obito's genjutsu, even if he wasn't being expressly puppeted at the time. he's still more subdued, and definitely more cruel than we see him in his other scenes; could be the genjutsu and obito's forced complacency, or yagura's own lack of tolerance for deserters. this is unclear.

it would, however, have to be while yagura was under obito's genjutsu, because it's after yagura becomes mizukage (it's unclear when exactly yagura became mizukage, however i tend to believe it was around a year or so after he became isobu's host, which was around six months after rin's death. yagura would have been 13 at the beginning of his reign.)

in any case, isobu is conscious enough to provide yagura his stage two cloak and continue the fight, take juzo's life, and make it out.

which leads me to believe that, no, the genjutsu wasn't necessarily on all the time, but there may have been some kind of seal in yagura's brain or something there to keep him complacent, keep him from sniffing anything out on his own or doing anything about the genjutsu.

anyway, we know that this happens before the scene where yagura and obito meet kisame in kirigakure, because kisame was itachi's partner second. juzo was already dead by the time that kisame joined the akatsuki, as far as we know.

the next time we see yagura is during the above clip, before obito has him in his genjutsu at all.

i generally headcanon that yagura is the one to have taken the third mizukage's life while under obito's genjutsu, ending his reign and beginning yagura's own. whether this is the case or not, it's extremely likely that yagura isn't even mizukage yet here. he's all of 12, 13 years old; comes across this patrol of strangers, and is trapped in a genjutsu for next 10 or so years. scared and alone. can't tell anyone about what's going on, because even while he physically can't, he doesn't even really know what's going on either.

he's terrified, and even his bijuu - the one other being who knows his mind as well as yagura himself does - can't even help him out of it.

i don't really have a point to this i just have a lot of feelings about yagura and his five minutes of screen time

gerard’s first words on stage tonight

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i’m so incredibly deep in denial about this and i will STAY there