BirdOfPride

It’s just been a loop of “no, no, no, no” FOR 20 MINUTES

I’m starting to think the author deleted it… I do have a lot of deleted fics in my history

i really want to finish the new chapter but the timeline presents itself as an issue

I’m sorry if this offends anyone but at what point of his life did Louis transition? It’s been bugging me for a week because to write him, I need to describe him as he appeared in the scene, but I don’t know.

Its’s really confusing for me cause I only started seeing more than what I was told growing up and I’ve only been in this community for but a very long time.

I’m really sorry if this is offensive but it is a genuine question I’ve had.

IT'S NOT OFFENSIVE!!! it's not offensive because you're not being malicious, you're asking out of good faith and that's good! ask the questions!

i get not having motivation, it sucks, sending you hugs <3

i'm guessing it was after his mother died, honestly. having her control over him suddenly be gone would be both terrifying and freeing. and because vampirism ages him so slowly, he'd be stuck in adolescence for. a while. long enough to figure out that he's trans, for certain.

it is not wrong to write a trans character pre-transition, in fact it's awesome. there's an amazing vsmp fic called "pure as a lamb" that includes pre-transition louis. (he knows he's trans but no one else around him does, so he is misgendered. gosh it's such a good fic, i love it.) it would be so cool to write him coming out to cerulea- and if it's from her perspective, it would be completely okay for her pov to refer to him with the wrong pronouns until he comes out. that's really realistic! i know you'd write it well, your writing is amazing!

i'm going to be writing pre-transition rau!louis in the prequel- a lot of his characterisation will be based off my own experiences. writing a trans character in this way is really important, as long as it is done respectfully. and i know you will <3

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The Rodeo Rule: you only have to do it for the first time once.

The Rohan Rule: if you are at a social function full of new people and you want to be liked, find someone doing important work like setup or food prep and offer to help.

The Tutorial Mode Rule: to navigate an unfamiliar situation where you fear you will mess up an interaction, preface the interaction by mentioning that you've never done this before, and let them know if you have a specific concern or question.

The Rocket Science Rule: most new things you want to try seem very complicated but are simple when taken step by step.

The [X] Will Remember That Rule: if you need to make small talk with the same person on a regular basis, try to save one fact or current event in their life from a given conversation and bring it up next time you talk.

you only have to do it

for the first time once.

Shelby: I haven't forgiven you yet! Owen: I don't doubt you will. Shelby leaves. Owen: Eventually, they all do.

There's a lot I could go into here, and frankly I don't know that canon even bears Owen's view out. A lot of vampires end up wanting to stay vampires, but there's tension in a lot of the sire-fledgling relationships. But let's pretend Owen's right, and fledglings do eventually forgive their sires for turns, no matter how violent.

Because this is a really nice explanation for why Abolish doesn't want to get turned, and why he would (as stated by word of god) immediately prioritize killing any vampire who turned him against his will.

If he knows that vampirism will warp you like this, will shift your loyalties no matter how hard you try to keep that from happening?

Even if it's just (just!) forgiving the person who violently attacked you to the point of death, that's a division of loyalty that could get the people he works with killed: if he gets turned nonconsensually and doesn't kill them immediately, he'll decide the person who turned him is Literally Nice and let them go even though they have a proven record of eating people.

And then they will go on eating people, after he said they were Literally Nice, and then his coworkers will be dead or turned because he got turned. Not a polite thing to let happen to your coworkers. I imagine it would make water cooler conversations difficult, if they were not also getting mind-warped into being fine with it.

And it's not like he can say that out loud! He can't go 'I'm not getting turned, that makes you critically emotionally compromised over the person who turned you and my Organization will lose people if that happens to me.' to a growing group of people who are all subject to that effect! They're not going to take that well! That's going to destabilize a situation that's already a house of cards!

(AND this is assuming he wouldn't simply be considered a liability to the Organization and taken care of)

This could also be why he's reasonably okay with the turn and cure plan. It's not about leaving Oakhurst human, not really. Human is a nice to have. It's about leaving Oakhurst without a living sire. And that's why he pushes Doc's execution along once Martyn and Ren are dead. Yeah, Doc turned him consensually, but it was with the condition of Doc's death, and Doc's death was an important condition. And the longer they all wait, the more the emotional tie, the forgiveness, has a chance to work its way into him and make him decide to keep Doc alive.

And Doc...is not exactly stable.

Consider:

Abolish agrees to be turned by Doc, knowing that if the cure doesn't work, this plan will end with months or years of mourning for a man he's known only a few months.

It would be...fine. Workable, if it was someone else. He can compartmentalize. But it should be easier if it was someone he'd mourn naturally. He'll keep more of himself, that way.

What will that forgiveness look like, when it's from a recovered monster who has been broken into a shell of a man, and it's to someone who kept talking about killing everyone?

No. No, it's better for Doc to die now. Doc deserves to die the man he wants so keenly to be. Abolish's forgiveness and his mourning should go to that man, the one who is willing to lay down his life for Abolish.

doc:

Your honor! Please direct your attention towards the manga.

As you can see there are small pieces of paper sticking out of every volume.

But no such paper is sticking out of the Batman comic.

Once again making hasty assumptions, Wright?

First of all, I’d like to direct the court’s attention to this particular spot, in the top right-hand corner.

Notice how the words are blocking the top of the Batman book.

Say whaaaat?

Well uhm

Look at the size of the paper pieces, they’re all sticking pretty far out.

If there was paper in the batman comic, it would be big enough to stick up over the text.

Still grasping for straws, Wright?

Hypothetically, if there were a paper there, this picture would not be able to prove its presence. I’ve taken the liberty of drawing a diagram to illustrate my point. We are faced with three possibilities. It is possible that (1) the paper was simply tucked in deeper than the others.

Paper is a soft material, Wright. It’s not unreasonable for it to do a (2) 90 degree turn. 

Or perhaps, (3) a paper does not exist there at all. 

Either way, you cannot prove your client innocent without sufficient evidence.  

I’m sorry Edgeworth.

I concede that I can’t disprove theory 1

But the image you submited for theory 2 is contradictory.

Look at the tilt of the other papers. They clearly prove how much the paper would tilt.

And theory 3 is my point! Why would the library’s book not have this piece of paper when the other library books do?

While you still have thory 1, there is another contradiction.

Ack.

(Perhaps I should’ve left the artistry to the forensic artist…)

Now hold it right there! It doesn’t matter which direction the paper is going because it’s impossible to prove it even exists!

Those theories are all the same! We do not have enough information to prove them. There could be an infinite amount of papers in there for all we know. I simply presented them only so that the court could better understand your baseless conjecture!

… I suppose the order of the books do seem out of the ordinary. However, therein lies not just one possibility. Clearly, those are Japanese graphic novels, also known as “manga”. And the Batman comic book is a graphic novel, too, no?

Seeing as it currently has only graphic novels in the shelf, it is possible that any other novels have simply not yet been restocked. Asserting whether or not this effect was deliberate is useless– there is no way of knowing if the photographer and the captioner are the same person, let alone their involvement in this picture.

(flash warning of course)