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Little girl, don't let them sell you any armor / All your ribs are still your own

first time doing something like this!! @wiltingtu1ips ty for the idea of rib corset (i physically could not get it out of my head)

Option 1: Freak Levels of Devotion. Oh good lord there's something deliciously fucked up going on here. What do you mean you've been tending to your sleeping lord for 600 years this is aggressively fairytale coded except in a dark fucked up way. And on Scott's end probably too, though there's a hundred ways this could go.

This man is getting healthcare and dental; he's been made immortal to some degree, and he gets to stay in this giant castle. For free. Have you seen the cost of rent lately?

The pay is good, the hours are flexible, and he gets Fridays and weekends off (Scott goes out on girls' nights that totally don't involve blood and murder).

Jax is so, so interesting in this episode. Beyond interesting. He clearly is in a mental state that is deteriorating even before the mentions of escaping came to him. The abstraction in this room, hallucinating Ribbit, being at piece with what he knows is abstraction, that all happens even before he meets Abel.

And when he does meet Abel and the entire plan to get out, he.. cooperates. He gives them the keys, opens the Chinese door, goes on the date with Caine, follows them the entire time despite his previous suspicions. He is helpful in ways he never typically is when he is forced to go along with an adventure or plan.

Before, I feel like Jax would have truly been annoyed the whole entire time, if he truly thought this was a waste, or if he truly didn’t want to escape.

I think Caine played on the existing fear in Jax, the fear of leaving, returning to a world he was mentally trying to escape even before he joined the circus.

But I don’t think Jax wanted to trap everyone else too.

I think those flashbacks were to make him feel desperate, afraid. It’s not like Jax would have protested if Pomni was ready to push the button, and didn’t protest the entire time they were in Caines office, even if his nerves were shot. It was only when the arguing started, and maybe the distress of the moment mixed with Caines influence drove him to finish the adventure and choose the right option.

Then again, you could argue that Caine wanted the humans to choose him all on their own, and Jax’s panic attack about leaving the circus happened to be the right catalyst to get them to stay.

But the regret on his face, not even sure why he would press the red button at all– tells me that he doesn’t want to stay, or at the very least, didn’t mean to drag them down with him. It is like he is surprised he even made that choice.

So, the fandom is at a crossroads of what made him act. Was it Caine pushing him to make that decision based off of preexisting fear? Or is it Jax and the pure panic he experienced of leaving that drove him to make a choice he fully regrets?

Well, I don’t know, it’s kind of ok 🤷‍♂️

Somehow they were able to see each other as their human form for the first time in a dream...

Maybe sleeping together while holding hands (or each other) made this "glitch" happen

at long last... they're all complete! :D I had a blast working on these~

Pyro was a tragedy because he let other people's perceptions of him shape who he became and never made the choice for himself.

Owen was a tragedy because he chose to stay hurt and stuck in the past rather than changing, because moving on meant losing Louis.

Legs was a tragedy because he didn't think that choosing to be good right now mattered after all the monstrous choices he'd made before.

Martyn was a tragedy because no amount of choices would have changed his fate, he was doomed from the bridge.

Ren was a tragedy because his choice to change and trust the vampires was such an accidental disaster that it convinced him that change was wrong.

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Cleo was a triumph because she chose peace and chose love over revenge, she could have killed all the vampires for what vampires had done to her but she didn't and she made it out.

Pearl was a triumph because she chose to stick to her morals and give everyone else the choice to be better too.

Shelby was a triumph because even after killing Pyro, she didn't keep going down the path of revenge and instead chose to walk away.

Scott was a triumph because he chose to care and let the hard shell of eternal apathy crack and grieve and grow.

Drift was a triumph because she chose to be brave, to take charge of her destiny and stand up for herself.

Apo was a triumph because even though everything she tried to do failed, over and over again, she still chose humanity and the town.

Abolish was a triumph because he didn't have to do paperwork.

REGRET

"I have enough sins. I don't need to take credit for other people's."

More lovebitten cause I hate myself

+ a bonus even bigger eyes Owen from that one scene in ep 1 (you know the screenshot)

+no speech bubble version

And that includes Shelby and Pearl who are the people I see get the most “Actually she’s totally a good person who did nothing wrong”!!! Shelby especially is like, she’s sweet and she means well, but she’s totally in the wrong for so much of what she says and does. I could go at length about how wrong Shelby is for most of the SMP. She is completely ruled by her own personal emotions and preferences to the point where she refuses to see the truth of the situation multiple times because she just likes some people more than other people. And for Pearl, while she acts as a moral backbone during the series, she straight up has killed people. Part of her backstory is that she has killed multiple werewolves and when it’s brought up to her that werewolves are humans most of the time, she immediately brushes it off. Her moral code changes during the series from “I kill monsters who kill people” to “I kill monsters that kill people senselessly and for no good reason” but that’s still putting herself in the position where she personally gets to decide what’s an acceptable reason to kill.