Posting this here too because it actually kills me but everytime arakawa draws alphonse doing this my heart breaks 5 million times over. it's just a really nice detail showing his age through body language and I really love it. It's also interesting in my opinion because he can't feel the cloth but he does it anyways because I'm assuming it was a nervous tic of his. Which makes me think more about how his whole situation works in terms of like proprioception and things that carried over from his human body like this nervous tic of his.
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Azriel and Cassian have fought at Rhysandās side for centuries. If Rhysand was āslaughtering on the battlefieldā before Lucien was even born, so were Cass and Az.
To say that Lucien is at the same level as two fae that have centuries on him and that have basically been soldiers since they were children is laughable.
Yes Lucien is trained, and strong, and can fightā but Cassian and Azriel are on a completely different level.
Stop saying that Lucien dominated Cassian, or that he could ādominateā Azriel āthe same wayā.
Guys maybe we are all wrong. The square hole is the REAL villian. It just get total control of our streamers' mind so the only thing they can do is expanding it endlesslyā¦
Post pondering about Masked Shadow's origin reveal, mental state, and self perception.
*Spoilers for Mask Ending*
Thoughts under read more...
Do you think the Masked Shadow has forgotten it used to be a Sam?
As the narration progresses, Shadow seems to refer to and treat past Sam as a whole different person/entity. Which makes sense, since the Masked Shadow is distorted due to space/time, and it no longer resembles its own original form.
It cannot recognize Sam's face as something that used to be its own, Sam's face sprite is blanked out.
Shadow gets a headache when thinking about past encounters with its own self. The narration describes it as feeling overwhelmed, finite, and lost.
It can see the past, present and future, but does it even consider Sam's memories its own anymore? Can it even parse what it is seeing future-wise? It has no context for events that have yet to happen, can it somehow discern what it is witnessing is the past or future?
The poor thing.
I personally still view the Masked Shadow has become its own thing entirely, even with 2.0's update. And I headcanon that by the time Shadow settles on giving Sam the rose, that's when I think it has forgotten who it originally used to be.
All it knows it that it NEEDS Sam, and Sam NEEDS it. An un-cursed/stable Sam keeps the Masked Shadow grounded in a current time more easily. An anchor.
I have so many other thoughts about the Masked Shadow, but I want to hear other people's ideas on whether or not the Masked Shadow KNOWS it used to be Sam or not.
Has the Masked Shadow forgotten? Does it fully know it used to be Sam? Or maybe a mix of the two, flipping between the states of mind.
Here to say Paladin Danse from Fallout 4 is my character now
Bethesda murdered his character after Blind Betrayal and they lost custody of him
Romance with him is just so fan service to me, but my partner made the argument a lot of the romance is. He just loses a lot of depth to his character after the final affinity conversation. I think there should be a follow-up quest to him that goes more in-depth to him. I was really disappointed when I found out there was nothing because there's like still so much going on with him. Like he's still going to be suffering after being banished but there's like no additional dialogue after. I know it's been talked to death, but yeah the no change in general dialogue and acting like he's still in the Brotherhood is just poor writing. I get why he's still has prejudice afterwards (someone did a comic that explains it really well but I can't remember the user, I'll link it if I do), but he should definitely stop acting like he's still in them. It's just so shallow and I wish there was more. I haven't romanced any of the companions but him and Preston so I don't know if it's the same for all of them but it's so weird how he just stops having character development after his final affinity conversation. I also think that there should be a lot more to romance him because I know damn well with everything they gave us he would not instantly agree to be in a relationship with your character. He is the slowest of slow burns. But from a gameplay stand, I get people would be pissed as hell if you had to slow burn. In my little mind palace with my gay ass pirate I ship with him, he gets more fucking character development and it's the slowest of slow burns
I also know Bethesda can do more because they Skyrim and apparently you can marry and have kids with your partner. Why can't I get Danse pregnant :(
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the 18 y.o dean we see in season 4 is so different from the 16 y.o dean we see in season 9 that it makes you wonder what couldāve possibly happened in those 2 years to change him so fundamentally. maybe he realised he couldnāt give up the family business when there were so many to be saved, maybe he realised being by samās side was more important than anything else he couldāve had. more important than the cute girl he liked, the school dances he could attend, the stable place he grew to know as a home. maybe it was his 17th birthday, and that hunt he was sent on by john.
we always see dean as this cocky, over confident guy both as an adult and as a teen. but thereās something much more genuine, and child-like in him at 16. when he was in that high school as an 18 year old he already had that ābad boyā womanizer persona established, but just two years prior he was kissing a girl for the first time in that home for boys. we saw him being a genuine kid outside of that cocky exterior for the first time. and he decided to leave that life not because his dad had a job for him, but because he saw sam waiting for him in the impala and he couldnāt bring himself to leave sam. thereās such a contrast between this moment and him in that high school, acting like his whole life revolved only around hunting.
throughout the whole episode in s9, we see dean call the job āboringā and say he doesnāt want to follow in his dadās footsteps. itās so weird to hear that because if you look at every single episode prior to this, you would 100% say dean loves the job and wants to be just like his dad. that was the whole point of his character especially in the early seasons. he tried so hard to fill in his dadās shoes, idolized him to the point of worship, and now youāre telling me that he never wanted this? normally i would chalk it up to inconsistency and bad writing on the writersā part, but i feel like this couldnāt have been unintentional.
maybe iām overanalyzing this since iām writing as i go, and iām still at the start of s9; either way i canāt stop thinking about how dean chose sam over the life he couldāve had. again.
Had a convo with a friend on discord and. Man.
Despite being a CORE avenger, it's so strange that there's *basically* no fan content for Thor. I mean, yeah, he shows up in a ton of fanfics, yeah, but it's always as a background character, Avengers Funnyman/Butt of the Joke, or as the annoying/rescuer/overbearing/etc, older brother of Loki. But he's never explored as his own character. Which again is SO fucking strange as he is a core fucking avenger.
Like. Look up the differences between Thor-centric and POV Thor tags on Ao3, and then those same tags but for Loki, Steve, and Tony. It's actually astounding. (don't get me started on the lack of no fucking comics thor fics but that's a different convo and more so a by effect of the mcu being so prominent)
The Amount of Thor-Centric & POV Thor Fics
And then the numbers for Loki, Tony, and Steve.
I get twinks becoming tumblr-darlings and sexymen has a role in this, but like... Thor is attractive. There's plenty of smut and porn fics with him, why is there nothing exploring his inner world, his themes, what he's about as a character? He has tons of overlap with Steve & Tony, but then add on the fact that he is a fantasy character in a modern-scifi world.
Anyways there's my rant, might make this a thread and add on more later :///
