#this got... long

(white is why I think the fight would be set up, and green is why I think that person would win)

(also keep in mind I wrote this before Scott tweeted that thing about not all of the fights being 1v1, but I still think the overall storylines are the same, and just think of this as how I'd personally do it)

More detailed thoughts under the cut:

And then we see her interacting with the “normal” world of high school, and it’s unexpected and familiar at the same time (at least for me). She’s wildly insecure about being weird and has no friends and doesn’t really know how to deal with the guy who has a crush on her, and it’s... really relatable, at least to how my high school experience was as someone with ADHD.

I know it’s a fairly common archetype to have the “character is highly skilled in one area but inept in other, more normal areas,” but there’s something about April’s execution that really speaks to me. It’s this idea of having this secret, hidden world that you can navigate with ease, which is so beautiful and vibrant to you, but nobody else knows it exists and if they did, they’d probably see it as more weird and freakish than vibrant and beautiful. And you know that nobody in the “normal” world sees you in the right way, and they can only see you as incompetent and weird, because they just don’t see that world you’re a part of.

And I love that April kind of struggles with this as well, in the show--she seems to love the weirdness, quite genuinely, but at the same time she has this occasional wish to be normal, and she sees the mutant/yokai world through the eyes of a “normal” person. She sees it as weird or freakish, and she doesn’t want to be a part of it anymore, and she tries not to, but she can’t escape it. It feels like a really realistic struggle to me (and sidenote: shout out to Leo and Donnie for not being super offended by her treatment of them in that episode, because I definitely would be if I were them). 

@pxppinmolly​ said: “ you can stay with me tonight. ” uwu

Because Hellsa does so well with vulnerability

To say Hellsa didn’t sleep much was an understatement.

The irony wasn’t lost on her, either. She considered herself a walking nightmare and yet the prospect of a sleep that was not dreamless left a pit in her stomach. Not without good reason, of course, the hour or so she got when she did exhaust herself enough to succumb to sleep was more than enough to put her off the whole ordeal. What could she say, there were things she tried to avoid and her ‘nightmarish’ nature was high on that list.

But that was... a lot to deal with. It had been a fun night and that’s all she needed, Hellsa wasn’t about to ask Molly for any more favors. Besides, she wasn’t the type to share her problems anyways. So instead she plays it off, gives a laugh as she shrugs on her jacket.

“Nah, I got work to do. You know me--” (A lie, she hoped). “--I like to keep busy. Besides, I’m a total badass, a little danger in the form of a late night walk is nothing. You don’t have to worry about me, babe.”

She’s already got her hand on the door at this point, fully intending to leave before Molly could even protest (Would she? Did Hellsa want her to? It was always so much harder to tell when neither of them had an agenda). But she hesitates. Because, as unusual as it was, she doesn’t want to seem ungrateful. So she hovers in the doorway and shoots the other a smile that probably holds more sentiment than it should.

Reading your tags and- You would like the Master to be he Morally Grey, Evil Leaning one just as the Doctor is the Morally Grey, Good leaning one?

Nah,  i mean more that good people do bad things and evil people do good things and the presence of outliers in behaviour aren’t necessarily either a final nail in the coffin of their goodness or a get out of jail free card from a character’s much more prevalent terrible actions, because it’s unrealistic that good people in general don’t have bad days, or that bad people are 100% terrible All the time?

I mean like, moral greyness is actually the idea of doing something to achieve a good outcome in such a way that is Bad. It is grey because they have good intentions but their methodology is arguably more evil than good. It’s the utilization of bad tactics to achieve a positive outcome. It’s not a catch all for people who do both good and bad things, more a judgement on methodology. 

Like, i don’t Actually necessarily think the doctor and master are like this but it’s an ideal. 

Because over time the master has done some actual good deeds, but with the exception of Missy, they weren’t a good person because their ideals weren’t good either. They weren’t even morally grey, they just might have done that One good thing that one time arguably just because it benefited them, and just happened to help the good guys as well (Hi Simm). 

Would not shooting 10 and stopping Rasillon be categorized as a good deed, yeah. But like, there weren’t any straight up good intentions there and that is not moral grayness. The good deed was beneficial to him so he did it, he asked first to be part of the evil universe wrecking plot and was mad (fairly, lbr, it was fair) when he got told he was just cast off junk. So he did something good, but it didn’t stop him being evil even tho he like... Saved people. 

Missy, who put the time in to think about the methodology and philosophy of morality, Was morally grey to good in the end imo, her reasons for standing with the doctor were thought out and intended to be a good action and were in no way self serving, it’s the uh, stabbing, to get the opportunity to commit to the self sacrificial goodness that’s the morally grey bit. 

I think in general the doctor is morally grey, i’d say 13 isolated as a singular entity is actually on balance one of the doctors closer to simple Good just because it’s a character trait that she tries Really hard to be so, but in general over the story the doctor tries to achieve good outcomes but their methodology can be an utter nightmare, which is the moral greyness. And sometimes they’re just like. Terrifying. But again, that’s outlying behaviour from some kind of immature hissy fit, usually. 

Whereas the master is, currently, trying to convince himself he’s Super Evil and in no way capable of the goodness that he now knows for a fact he is capable of, and is trying to embrace the straight up evil banner again by some casual genocide, manipulation, murder and trickery and that can’t be called anything other than bad because he’s actively trying to take a wrecking ball to the universe to soothe his own issues. But again, the point of that is he Is capable of good and doesn’t like it so is purposefully being anything but. 

the master is one of my favourite Villains of all time, but it falls flat if they’re just like, boring and not capable of doing something good randomly and saving the day once in a while, but they’re not my favourite villain if they’re morally grey cuz then they’re not a villain??? I Love the missy story because everybody is capable of goodness for the most part, and the master will Always have done that and it cannot be changed and they cannot take it back, but the show was never gonna change that dynamic between the doctor and the master for good? 

It’s why i personally like the idea of just straight up good vs bad 13/ dhawan!master, because this master acts so badly on purpose because of trauma from when he actually was good, and this doctor acts so nicely on purpose because she is actively trying Really Hard to be good because it’s not as natural as she’d like. They are good vs bad because they’re actively Trying to be that. But they’re only trying to be that, imo, because both of them know how easy it is for them to be the opposite and neither of them like it. 

like, if 13 is a doctor who has to work her ass off to be that good, it’s only logical that her mirror character is working Their ass off to be bad. It makes them the same and opposite simultaneously. Their issue, here, really, is that 13 does not know he’s capable of good, and with her refusing the flip the switch he’s convinced she’s all goody-two-shoes because he was trying Really Hard to break her this season and failed. They’re both wrong. They’re both like this from some Serious effort. 

I kind of half have what i want in that they’re at odds good vs evil but both are unaware the other is capable of acting like the other. 

And don’t get me wrong, i would Love to see a story where the doctor actually has to deal with a straight up moral grey master on a long term basis b/c Boy would that be a kick in the pants to them for so many reasons, but i personally want the master to be bad but capable of good things but like... They don’t Really want to do good things?  Meanwhile 13 is capable of bad things but like.. she doesn’t Want to do them.

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﹡ . ° roderich is a back-stabbing bitch // accepting .

winter   sets   its   claws   into   madrid   outside   of   the   windows .   roderich   looks   out   onto   the   grounds ,   &   sighs .   back   home   in   vienna ,   the   snows   would   be   settling   in   in   the   villages ,   covering   the   gardens   in   a   layer  of   white .   they   would   all   move   to   the   winter   residences ;   clad   in   furs ,   their   hunting   dogs   accompanying   them   in   the   trails .   roderich ,   mountain - born ,   never   liked   the   winter   much .   he   grows   cold   easily ,   sluggish ,   but   right   now   he   misses   nothing   more .   being   away   from   his   people   rips   him   apart .   &   it   is   all   this   blasted   conflict ----   WINTER   IS   HIS .   winter   is   when   he   mustn ' t   endure   the   foreign   language   that   grates   his   ear ,   the   presence   of   spain ,    who   always ,   always   returns   during   winter .    venus ,   they   call   roderich ---   but   here   &   now   he   is   nothing   but   a   poor   parody   of   proserpina . 

❛        it   is   not   HOW   MUCH   YOU   MEAN   TO   ME .   it   is   never   about   that .     ❜      his   voice   is   cold   when   he   speaks .   he   stands ,   hand   briefly   flexing   against   the   wood  of   the   table .    ❛      you   know   war ,   catharina ,   &   you   know   it   well .   but   i   have   sacrificed   my   life   for   politics ,   for   alliances ,   to   keep   us   from   falling   apart .       ❜     he   thinks   about   the   ottomans   at   the   gates   of   vienna ,   about   sobieski   descending   down   the   hill ,   about   having   to   cede   his   rightful   spoils   to   a   human .      ❛       do   you   think   i   wanted   to   come   here ?   ❜      he   waves   his   hand   around   his   rooms .  his   mouth   settles   into   a   thin   line .

❛        tell   me ,   catharina ,   have   you   ever   lied   with   a  man   you   loathed ?     ❜     HARSH   WORDS ;   not   entirely   true ,  but   true   enough ,  at   least   in   this   moment ,   at   least   now .   he   comes   closer   to   her ,   his   words   sharp .     ❛        &   then   the   thing   that   made   it   bearable ,  his   power ----   HE   GROWS   COMPLACENT .   he   is   an   embarrassment   at   rocroi ,   &   you   are   left   to   salvage   the   pieces ,   send   in   YOUR   COMMANDERS   because   his   are   incompetent .     ❜

Send ‘safe’ for a time your muse made mine feel safe || @tachiisms

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It is the week she has never felt more unsafe in her life.

Mandalore has just been taken, and she only narrowly escaped Maul’s saber. She has several new scars across her body to accompany the one from Draboon. And perhaps a few in her mind as well.

Obi-Wan set up a meeting between them, something about secret identities and Siri being the best at undercover work. Something about needing to hide. She can’t quite recall it all. She distantly can however remember a similar feeling during the civil war after it was announced her family had been killed. Like she wasn’t even fully here.

Obi-Wan seems to notice this, because he does not set up their meeting in a cantina as she suspects he might have if she were a little more herself, no he sets it up in a rather well- shady apartment in the low levels of Coruscant.

They arrive and Siri is already there. “I’ve swept the place already, no signs of bugs, we should be free to speak here.” She tells them as they walk in the door.

Obi mentions something about needing to go back to the council to smooth things over, and tell the republic what has happened. Satine simply sits down on a dingy couch and nods. She’s still too numb to do much else.

Siri sits across from her, not entirely sure how to approach this conversation. She has never seen Satine like this, and force Obi-Wan would be better at this than she is why couldn’t he have stuck around a bit longer?

This seems to help Satine return a bit more to herself. Having to focus on something else, someone else is always quite helpful. “What is our first step?” Satine asks, trying to slip into the tone she once used on her advisers. Obi-Wan had once called it her ‘regal voice’ but it seems to fall just a bit flat this time.

“Well first, we need to change your look a bit. You’re the face of the council of neutral systems, someone is bound to recognize you if we don’t. Then with the help of a friend of mine on Bellassa we’ll set you up with a new identity.”

Perhaps if things were different, Satine might argue. Perhaps if she hadn’t been confronted with how monstrous and unreasonable people can truly be, she might try to join Obi-Wan, try to find a way to talk to Maul. Even extremists can be reasoned with. She once believed that, now she isn’t so sure.

“Alright. When do we-” She is cut off by the loud sound of a crash outside, though it was certainly not quiet before, there is an overwhelming sound of sirens and yelling and suddenly Satine finds it hard to breathe.

Siri places her hands on either side of Satine, lightly so as not to distress her further. “Hey, hey Satine, listen to me your safe here. Maul and Vizla are not here, you are safe.”

It takes a few moments but eventually Satine’s breathing evens out. Safety feels like such a faraway prospect, but perhaps this is the first step toward it. “How can you be so sure?” 

“Because,” Siri begins, not sure at first how that sentence is actually going to end. “I know what I’m doing.” She settles on. “And my contacts on Bellassa do too. I’d trust them with my life.”

Satine looks at the woman across from her and nods, allowing her confidence to bolster her own. There are few in her life whom she feels truly safe around, even fewer now, but she knows Siri is one of them.

     things  don’t  slip  his  sight  very  often,   not  on  monastery  grounds,   at  the  very  least.   he’s  kept  a  closer  eye  on  the  students  this  year,   mostly  because  of  the  UNFORTUNATE  events  that  seemed  to  have  followed.  to  say  he  wasn’t  expecting  anything  of  THIS  sort  to  surface  would  be  an  understatement.   never  in  his  19  years  of  being  here  has  anything  been  this  drastic.

     truthfully,   he  wishes  it  hadn’t  come  to  this,   but  drastic  times  do  call  for  drastic  measures.   he’d  sat  on  it  for  a  few  weeks  now,   troubled  as  he  was  to  learn  of  it.   edelgard’s  movements  have  been  suspicious  at  best.   and  all  that  talk  of  an  unjust  society  and  the  crests  and .  .  .

     there’s  nothing  he  can  do  to  sway  rhea  anymore,   she’d  gone  unchecked  for  far  too  long,   he  was  too  late  to  do  anything  that  might  change  her  sights.   and  with  the  concerning  origins  of  their  latest  addition  to  their  faculty  it’s  too  hard  to  ignore  how  far  gone  she  is.   it’s  just  one  thing  after  another.