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sparring-spirals · 2 years
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Delilah, whispering, "Only yourself can be trusted, when all love is taken." and then Laudna does 50 points of damage to F.C.G and for a brief, brief moment, her dead heart beats.
and she says "This isn't who you are."
and she isn't sure who she's saying it to.
good fucking GOD
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panevanbuckley · 1 year
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if i had a nickel for every time the writers have made us wait an entire week to confirm that our boys are very much still alive i'd have two nickels. which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.
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thanatoseyes · 1 year
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Arthur really just chose violence and John's just powerless to do anything.
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ace-and-ranty · 2 years
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The Unalive Book Summary post is breaking containment, and I think it’s time I officially stop looking at the notes. All I wanted to do is roast one (1) incredibly juvenile and tone-dissonant writing choice, and yet, I can already smell the discourse approaching.
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gigibad · 1 year
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Okay so in another life is clearly going to be about what if Daniel lived, they've set that up. But why no Eddie? How are they gonna fit Eddie into it? I need answers
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No one from the Lei family is normal. Pass it on.
Except for maybe Rex. Rex is a good noodle.
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tanukiwis · 4 months
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having nabari no ou (manga mostly) feelings... it hurts
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porterprophet · 1 year
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is it just me or did laudna flinch when fcg spoke to her when they’re talking about going to the castle? separate from her flinching about going to the castle, this seems specifically about fcg.
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animentality · 3 months
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What do you think were Durge’s thoughts when they saw Gortash again at the end of act 2 and all the times Karlach mentioned Gortash’s name in conversation and how she would kill him / with your help?
And what do you think were their thoughts AFTER seeing him again and then Karlach is actively like “we gonna unalive him” would durge have a weird feeling? Would they just agree cuz murder yay✨ or would they have strange thoughts about him/some sort of idk yearning? And straight up lie to Karlach “sure vengeance all the way (while crossing their fingers)” or even go as far as ~I’m the leader I decide~ “no, he might be useful” or just dodge the topic altogether?
Do you think Karlach would ever say, maybe after the coronation, being all pissed and hurt something around the lines of “I cannot believe I haven’t realized it sooner, you’re just like him” “Do you even care about any of us?” or “You would throw anyone under the bus/carriage😂 to get what you want”
Damn the Durgetash brain rot is awful 😪
Unfortunately in game, you don't remember him at all, which is a shame, but I have always maintained that you should get this feeling in your gut, like a flicker of warmth, or a tinge of discomfort.
Like you don't "know" this man, but your body seems to.
You catch a whiff of his smell, and you remember not memories exactly, but feelings.
Comfort. Quiet solace. Triumph. Camaraderie.
I know when Karlach says Gortash, the name is "familiar" to you, but I wonder how exactly.
See, it doesn't make sense that you remember Balduran things, but don't remember anything at all about your life in the city?
I know part of it's just, they wanted to recycle lines for Durges that Tavs get.
But Gortash's name should evoke something in you.
(Arousal)
As for if the Dark Urge would object to killing him...well.
They spent most of their partnership having to reign that in. I suspect when she says, we need to kill this man, you would probably say, yeah, for some reason, I feel that too.
But then he offers you an alliance, and you're like...ok, this feels familiar too.
Choosing not to kill this man...entering into an alliance with him...and working with him... maybe this'll bring back more memories...
Hehehehe.
As for Karlach, well...it's such a shame she can't drag you more for being so buddy buddy with Gortash.
She of all people should be able to yell at you. You would have to pass a DC 30 to convince her not to leave the party...
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sparring-spirals · 2 years
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im so thrilled by the bells being full of both love and flaws. of course they lie to each other with great affection. its perfect.
Laudna and Imogen stutter over their words and hesitate and there are- still so many layers to their relationships and things for both of them to work out. but the moment, the moment they get over that first hurdle, the apologies pour out, the pent up affection and fear and the "i missed you so much, i'm so sorry, this has been terrible". because they care about each other, they love each other (so damn much).
Imogen and Laudna concoct a scheme to lie to FCG to make him feel better, and its a terrible idea but so well intended. and the moment they can tell F.C.G is actually upset, is actually unsettled, it gets tossed aside, they ask after them, they compliment and affirm and ask about how he's feeling.
the Bells get a lurking sense of concern about Fearne's past, they press into it and pull back with equal concern, they poke and pry even when they should be planning. and then end it with "we love you, no matter what", because they do.
Ashton leans in close to F.C.G, says in low, threatening tones: hes the best of them. They'll kill anyone who makes them feel bad.
They're all so fucked up, and they all just really care about each other. Its an almost ridiculous mode of operation, the way they're all bumbling through it and radiating so much sincerity that it hurts your teeth a little. Its also really nice to watch, even with winces at the missteps. They're so full of love, and ghosts, and fun little lies.
(And it also makes perfect sense that this is the party for a traitor PC, these little trainwrecks with so much affection strung out between them. There isn't a more perfect setup. There isn't a more devastating one.)
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sicklyseraphnsuch · 11 months
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Deal with the Devil
When Simon woke up, he found a gaunt face looking down at him. Its head was turned upside down so the top of its skull rested against its clavicle. Ah. This must be another one of the Crown's hallucinations.
Simon idly reaches up to push the face away. Of course, he fully expects his hand to simply phase through the creature because the creature isn't real. But his palm smacks against an eerily smooth skin and a pair of slitted eyes blinks at him.
"Well, that's rude. Do you always slap people when you wake up? What does my baby girl see in a dweeb like you?"
Simon pulls away, waving his hand as if burned. The thing - creature - demon - whatever wasn't hot to the touch. Actually, it carried the chill of something unalive, something from beyond the grave.
Scrambling backwards, he knocks his head against a rough concrete wall. He's in the remains of a ruined city, right at the spot where he ambushed Marceline. And yet he doesn't have the Crown. He had been so close! The chilled gold was at his fingertips! And then! And then!
He doesn't remember much. Something hard hit him. He can feel an ache in the left side of his skill. Did she hit him? How could she? After all he did for her, this was how Gunther repays him?
A finger snap returns his attention to the creature in front of him.
"Hey, hey, hey! Did you hear a word I just said? You didn't, right? Tsk, tsk, tsk. I'm here, tryna do you a favor but you're not even paying attention?"
The head rotates into a more natural position. The creature clambers over him and rises to its feet, towering over Simon. It uses all of its height to loom and effectively too.
"Wh-Who?"
The creature squints at him. "Buddy, pal, my guy - you summoned me here!" It knocks him on the head a couple times. "Remember?"
Summoned? Simon summoned him? He could - How - Wh- Oh!
"Marcy - Marceline! You're here for Marceline! You're - You're - You're -"
"That's right!" It - He grins, wide and full of pointed teeth. "Daddy's back, baby!"
Heat happens in an instant. Simon barely has time to breathe - much less to think. His body basically moves independent of his input. He launches himself up and forward, hands grabbing fistfuls of the demon's suit.
"Where have you been, you ding dong??? Do you know how old Marceline is??? Do you know how old she was??? When I found her?!?!"
The demon has the gall to raise an eyebrow.
"She's eleven now! Turning twelve soon! And she was six when I found her! SIX!!! Where the knick knack paddy whack were you?!?!"
"The Nightosphere, duh. You opened a portal. You saw me there. I saw you here. C'mon man, how are you this-"
Simon shakes him hard. "Don't you c'mon me! You have no right! No right!"
"Hey! Hey! Easy on the threads! The very essence of chaos tailored this for me, yanno? It's couture."
"WHAT?!"
Simon gets thrown back as the demon - Hunson, that was his name - he remembers now - Hunson straightens out his suit. Before Simon could lunge again, Hunson appears inches from him, one clawed hand pinning Simon to the concrete wall.
"Listen old man, my girl told me to stop you from going crazy. But why should I? Huh? I'm her Dad but all she talks about is you? Now that ain't right. That ain't right at all. I won't have it. So, here's what I'm gonna do..."
Hunson's mouth opens wider. Within his fanged maw, Simon could see another head nestled where the tonsils should be. Huh. Well. That's something.
Simon slaps Hunson, forcing the fearsome mouth shut. "Don't even bother! I'm not sticking around anyways. I summoned you here for Marceline. Just let me go, man. I'll get outta your way."
Hunson appears stunned, remaining silent as he stares at Simon.
"I know that you're a demon and all. But she's your... she's your daughter."
Hunson's eyes narrow. "Yeah, that's right. She's my daughter. I'm her father. I know what's best for her."
"And it sure isn't me. You may be a demon but I'm... I'm no good for her. Never was in the first place. So just put me down and I'll walk away. I won't even say goodbye."
Hunson doesn't drop him. He continues to study Simon like a particularly strange insect trapped beneath a pane of glass. He even shoves his face closer until the tips of their noses brush against each other. Simon tries to move away but the concrete wall is unyielding behind him.
"Nah, you know what? Marcy doesn't get that you're a total loser. And if you're gone, she'll never know. But if you stick around - she'll see how pathetic you really are. And, more importantly, how awesome I am! Especially compared to a lame-o like you!"
"Wh-What? No! I have to leave!" Simon shakes his head furiously. "I could hurt her!"
Hunson starts nodding eagerly. "Yeah, yeah! You can be my hypeman! My hype-dad!"
Fury overheats Simon's brain, leaving only white noise. In this blank lull, a whisper crawls forward from someplace unknown to him. It has the voice of falling snow and growing frost.
"No... No... I must build my kingdom of ice and snow... I must go north - North!" Simon's body begins to jerk left and right but he's distantly aware of this. All of his senses - touch, smell, taste, sight, sound - each one is feels far away, muffled as if covered by a thick blanket. "Unhand me, you freak!"
A sly grin forms across Hunson's mouth. From a hidden pocket (pocket dimension?), he pulls out the Crown. Its gold twinkles in the dying light of the day. Simon jolts as if an entire city's power grid electrocuted him. He flails his hands, trying to snatch the Crown.
"You're probably gonna need this if you wanna go North, right?"
"That's mine! MINE!!"
With a twist of Hunson's wrist, the Crown vanishes from Simon's sight.
"Relax, I'm just borrowing your funny little hat. I'll give it back. But..." Hunson shifts his hold, pulling Simon clear off the ground. "You have to stay. You're gonna make me look good in front of Marcy, so once she's over you, she'll run straight into my arms. And then, I'll give your stuff back. Cross my heart but I can't die. So stick a needle in my eye."
Hunson proceeds to insert the whole length of his pointed nail into his eyeball. Simon flinches but doesn't look away.
"I don't got a needle but that should do, right? That's how humans swear oaths?" Hunson pulls out the nail out of his eye and it barely bleeds before the puncture seals up. Then he sticks out the finger he used - it was his pinkie finger - out to Simon. "Now we pinkie swear on it!"
Simon searches him up and down, left to right. But he can't see a sign of the Crown. Whatever this demon did, apparently only the demon can bring it back. That means... That means... Well, there's only one choice to make here then.
Simon lifts his pinkie finger and wraps it around Hunson's.
"Fine. Deal."
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ava-ships · 9 months
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Spoilers for Trigger Happy Havoc
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That feeling when reading your unalive buddy’s favorite manga!
(Reblogs are encouraged, pr0ship/c0mship DNI)
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Imagine being there for one of Kaidou's unaliving attempts
Trigger warnings: Kaidou trying to unalive himself, he doesn't succeed
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Kaidou: *drunk on the roof of skull dome* I'm gonna jump!
King: Kaidou-sama, please get down from there
you: *cups your hands over your mouth and yells* do a flip!
King: *glances over at you for having the audacity*
You: what? This is an almost weekly occurrence, plus it's not like he can actually die.
King: *rolls his eyes* Sir, please get down from there!
Kaidou: *sobs as he does a flip off the roof and lands on a small storage room caving in the roof*
King: oh god! *runs over to the storage room* Sir!
Kaidou: *groans*
You: you good, buddy?
Kaidou: *sits up and glowers* why didn't it work?
You: *shrugs*
Kaidou: did my flip look cool?
King: it was magnificent sir, now let's get you to the infirmary.
Kaidou: I'm gonna try again *tries to get to his feet*
You: uh no you're not, Onigashima can't take any more caved in rooves. You've destroyed three this week alone, our carpenters can't take it. Just go to bed.
Kaidou: I'll do that, I'll just take a nap right here *slams his head against the pile of splinters that was the roof and starts snoring.*
King: *lets out a long-suffering sigh as he pinches the bridge of his nose* I'll go get Queen and Jack to help me move him.
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Author's note: I didn't really know what to d with this
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aita-blorbos · 8 months
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aita for savin my girlfriend
not really sure why im askin this, and basically this whole thing is a steamin pile of bollocks. me (144m) and my girlfriend (about 164f) moved into this new town about a year ago, on account of her bein sickly from being attacked and stuff. we did the things necessary to get her better, at least physically. shes always been a bit off her rocker, but shes my girlfriend and obviously that doesnt matter to me. matter of fact its pretty sexy. anyway thats not the point. the point is that this new town is nice and all, theres loads of um the local food supply just out there for the taking, but theres also this one extremely annoyin chick (about 17f but i dont keep track of that shite) whos almost killed us a lot of times. weve survived obviously, but needless to say were both a bit less than pleased with her. this girls boyfriend (about 271m, also he used to be all buddy-buddy with me and my girl before he got good and all that) went a bit wonky recently and has started murderin people the girl loves. now ordinarily id be all for that because i hate this girl, but hes got this idea that he wants to not just kill the girl, but destroy the entire universe. he teamed up with my girlfriend (and yeah im jealous i can admit that like a man) to do it and although i wasnt all that keen on the idea i said nothin (also i was marginally incapacitated at the time and couldnt really stop them).
now, i rather prefer bein alive, or unalive, or what have you. this world is a nice little place in between all the terribleness, you know? so in the end when he was about to do the plan thingy and bring the destroyer of the world, i had to team up with the girl and her sodding friends to stop him. anyway a whole lot of things happened and i ended up knockin my girlfriend unconscious and carryin her out so she couldnt help the guy end the world. then he got stabbed by his girlfriend i guess she killed him or whatever. point is. the world didnt end and me and my girl were together again. except she was so pissed off at me for saving her bloody life that shes gone off and left me. im thinkin about goin back to that town again and gettin revenge on the 17yo girl for causin my breakup, or maybe hangin out with the girls mother. i never really had much of a family, you know. and she (the girls mother) seems all right. not that it matters and of course i dont bloody care. anyway aita for literally stoppin this guy from destroyin my girl (and also i guess the rest of the world which is far less important in my view)
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bellshazes · 2 years
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Here is your excuse to ramble more about clethubs, I think this sort of analysis is really cool
the similarity of etho and cleo's approach to the life series is that they both will say either out loud or thru their actions, "I'm going to make sure you get what you deserve."
for cleo, this is her sense of justice leading her to the iconic "do me a favor and die for me" moment; she's loyal until she's betrayed, and then everything is on the table. she will treat you exactly as fairly as you treat her, which is why scott and her teaming up twice in a row makes sense, since Scott's win in LL is tied to his unwillingness to betray anyone and going red because of not killing as boogeyman. it also means that bdubs, who she didn't know especially closely before 3L, gets particular indulgences from her when he asks her to pretend she found the enchanter and tells him no one will believe her because she's also red but cuts instantly after that to her doing it. in DL she starts lying for fun with the lie meter bit after chastising bdubs for lying to her when she has never lied to him. she lies to him after! come season 4 (manifesting) I don't expect her to be sentimental about him much.
etho's whole bit in frightening exploit tactics is the same wording but emphasized differently. he fakes being boogey to extort people and fails at it miserably, but he is primarily interested in engineering situations in which people become deserving of retaliation, something cleo doesn't seek out but takes advantage of when it happens. His fishing rod kill on scar is the most brutally brilliant example of this - seeing an opportunity so good that even scar says he can't quite be mad about dying to it! But he doesn't really escape scar's single-minded insistence on the contracts bc scar has never been interested in fairness and etho is always interested in technicalities.
this contrast is compelling on its own. But bdubs brings them together when cleo tries to get recompense for etho looting her corpse while she's doing a favor for her buddy who said etho was kicking him out even though etho (correctly) insists he never was, and it's bdubs who brings them together when cleo consoles etho when bdubs dies and trusts him because bdubs did.
bdubs is not interested in people getting what they deserve. Bdubs is interested in people getting what he can give them, like a crastle to keep them safe, or interesting recklessness to play off of if he can't build a fortress, or a commitment to a bit whether it's advantageous or not (homewrecking). he is selfish and selfless, he will take lives from tango in LL and lie to cleo and everybody in DL and betray impulse of the day 1 crew in 3L when it suits him because he has one priority and that's his partner surviving him and I guess like being alive long enough to torment etho Jesus christ he's sick in the head for that one.
together the three of them when they align enable each other's most interesting and complex traits. you can see it in the way etho is like the only one who believes bdubs homewrecking and trusts cleo even while she says etho is the weakest link to attack alongside bdubs, because now unallied she has no qualms about using her knowledge of them to her advantage, all while bdubs quest to homewreck driven literally because quote unquote I want etho causes her to treat him no longer Iike home as he'd described her and she'd treated etho by transitive property in LL but some other player.
anti-sentimental sentimentalists of different flavors, who are in turn fiercely loyal and just and ruthless and indifferent. they would not I think win as a team of three. but a guy who wants to go out in a blaze of glory and a person who's always down for arson and just desserts and a guy who looks for reasons to fall on swords.... man. man. it gets to me
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itlivesproject · 1 year
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HELLO FRIENDS!! time for everyone’s favourite abel simp anon to kick off the finale weekend reactions :)
ps. this is quite long and there’s lots of swearing (i was very very excited, apologies😭)
OKAY HERE WE GO I AM SO EXCITED AND ALSO VERY NERVOUS OK WOO LETS GO
NO FUCKING WAY DID MATTHIAS KILL SILVIA - JAIL FOR THE WRITERS
guys we’re not even 2 minutes in slow down please
lincoln :(((( and abel too :( i think it’s time for matthias to unalive😀
“you could’ve easily done what matthias did” STOP
MATTHIAS ACKNOWLEDGING THAT ABEL IS IN LOVE WITH HER WAS NOT ON MY BINGO CARD
matthias leaving with a swish of his scarf is so on brand, that flamboyant twat
abel and lincoln friendship moment!!!! i love them so very much
…….noah? buddy? you can summon bats now? that’s pretty cool
all of that and we hasn’t even hit the intro sequence yet? damn
now who let connor out the cage🤨🤨
WE GOT THE WHOLE GANG HERE💪💪
the way you write matthias’s manipulation of jocelyn is so so good
AH ABEL PULLED US TO THE SIDE.. IF WHAT I THINK IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN ACTUALLY HAPPENS… KISSES FOR ALL OF U
IT DID HAPPEN
I JUST RAN A VICTORY LAP AROUND MY ROOM
I AM SILENTLY SCREAMING
I LOVE ABEL AND I LOVE ALL OF YOU
i’m honestly surprised i haven’t cried yet (i’m sure you all know by now how easily i cry)
“you and me, ro, forever. we just have to make it to tomorrow” someone write that on my gravestone because i just died
GERTRUDE IS BACK
WE’RE IN THE FUCKING VOID???????
pretend-annie? not this little weasel again
listen, as much as i am a pacifist, who am i to stop connor from killing adrian? (bye bye!)
ok the speech devon gives to romanced connor finally got me to tears (this will definitely not be the last time i cry this chapter LMAO)
WE BROKE THROUGH TO CONNOR YES FINALLY
NOW PLAYING AS ABEL FLINT ??????????!!!?!?!?!?!?
LOLA!!!! she’s beautiful :(
oh god this is heartbreaking
well amalia is in a graveyard so this won’t go well
ITS HER OWN GRAVE???? (kinda giving a christmas carol - this is charles dickens’ legacy)
oh god is jocelyn gonna see cody’s body?
SHE’S HAUNTED BY HER YOUNGER SELF? you just love to put this poor girl through the ringer
lincoln’s turn, if you show me silvia i swear-
god dammit
back to rowan, nice!
loha is so pretty
SHE MADE US?
i am so excited for tomorrow WOW
i am so proud of this whole project and i really do love you all💓
-abel simp anon
This reaction post is EVERYTHING I swear. My highlight reel: Matthias’s swish of his scarf, you running a victory lap, and “if you show me Silvia I swear- god dammit”
Glad you’re enjoying yourself, hope next chapter doesn’t disappoint teehee 🤭
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