#tdr

Lyaeus (Λυαῖος, "deliverer", literally "loosener"): one who releases from care and anxiety.

Bernard getting mugged in an ally and a batfam member happens to spot it, they’re about to jump in when bernard just snaps a drain pipe from the wall and beats the mugger with it

Bernard gets kidnapped by some rogue and tim comes to save him, only for him to find bernard threatening them with a steel pipe

Tim: how’d you even get a steel pipe?

Bernard: dunno what to tell you, it was just there, alluringly

Tim: we’re in a mountain base? Theres no visible pipe system?!

Both are bound by their blood to be opposites. They are victims of their upbringings and they both want what the other has but cannot fathom living the other’s life, not truly.

They are opposing forces, they are an unstoppable force and an unmovable wall, they are two cardinal directions on opposite ends of a compass, they are north and south poles on the same magnet and at the end of the day they do love each other so much.

But a love like that is destined to fail because they cannot change the rules of this plane of existence so they can either coexist without interacting at all to keep the balance or risk destroying one another in the chaos of their union.

Except its all the names etched on the entrance of the chuluu korikh, jiang's being the last bc after he immured himself no one alive heald enough knowledge to do it except when rin was trapped there for an hour not even a name to mark her

Except its chaghan, the last of the cike, trying to reunite the people who were nothing but cruel to him knowing hesperians are coming sooner or later

Except its lianhua carrying the secret of shamanism but not the true gravity of it, having never had the chance to be taught properly but forced into the mould of a weapon alongside pipaji and dulin

Except its altan being the last to experience speer's warmth and rin the last to carry the weight of its people

Except its kesegi, the frayed string from tins past finally snapping "You're not my sister"