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Magi 339
This chapter was one of the best in while! While hakuryuu isn't one of my top characters, I find that I enjoy his storyline the most! I feel like he’s finally in a stage in his life were he feels stable, even with all the craziness happening now.
This is mainly on hakuryuu and kougyoku!
Hakuryuu’s misfortune always came from being selfish, powerless, obstinate, and his inability to forgive. which as Kouen puts it, make him a defective king vessel.
These aspects of hakuryuu’s character had their build up for 10 years when we met him, proceeded by living in pure bliss, and this transition probably had its effect on him. He was crushed by the loss his revered brothers, the betrayal of his affectionate warm mother, his own incompetence, and the people who he had build expectations on let him down (Backstage 278).
So he begin plotting his rebellion, to get back his country, but mostly to revenge those who he sees as wrong, Yes, he eradicated Al-Thamen, but as we’ve seen that didn’t shake them much, to begin with, we never seen Al-Thamen affecting the life of the people of Kou. Kouen and co. amazingly kept them a bay, but did not let them run the country, and according to kougyoku flashback, while he wasn’t the emperor, under kouen’s reign living in Kou was bliss for both peace and economic stableness (in comparison with the Kouga tribe who were being enslaved before they joined Kou). Actually until now we only sew Al-Thamen profound activity outside of Kou ( Parthevia, Balbadd, Musta'sim, and Magnostadt).
Their biggest action in Kou to our knowledge was killing the emperor (I’m not actually sure was it confirmed it was gyokuen and not the rebels?) and the crown princes, who probably opposed them, which lead me to Ren Kouen, and his approach. He knew the crown princes better then hakuryuu and knew their strength. He decided how to handle the country, how to protect it while not butting heads with gyokuen and Al Thamen. he didn’t get rid of everything he found repulsive.
Back to hakuryuu and the rebellion, The rebellion which resulted in sacrifices of countless unwilling soldiers, The rebellion which turned Kou to a pawn of the SSA. A rebellion which nullified all of his siblings efforts tell now, dirtying their hands, sleepless nights, soldiers gratitude, all if it.
And lets not forget the most important person for hakuryuu, which if it weren't for Aladdin, hakuryuu might have had lost her forever.
Fast forward 3 years, we see hakuryuu much calmer demonstrated by him playing a ploy against gyukuen, maintenance of kouen’s prosthetic legs, and his expression when apologizing for Alibaba. first signs the he’s not the same raging young man he once was. He changed, he had been through so much, he lost gyokuen, judal, alibaba, kouen, and hakuei in this rebellion, All people who have profound effect on him on a way or another, most of them by his own hands. What was it that he was fighting for? His country? His country was better of before. In 3 years the almighty Kou is on its way to destruction, and at that critical time, he left.
circumstances happened and he did the best he could, but he left, and his sister stepped up for a role she was never ready for. She did her best, and grow up as a person, she let go of her own selfishness in order to protect her country, something hakuryuu failed to do. Kougyoku didn’t have to go through a suicidal rebellion to protect her country. What she had to do was something similar to hakuryuu, to forgive. A person she loved once, a person whose for she attempted to confront her beloved brother who she overflow with respect and admiration for, she’s never able to speak in equal foot with even when he initiated,
a girl who only wanted to be of use to her country at some point, decided she well do something not expected from her, all thanks to her feeling for that man.
Then those feelings of hers, which she struggled with for a long time, were stepped on. as a result of her naivety, Her brothers are traitors. The beautiful happy Kou is now a mess, and everything fell on her all alone.
She lived with these feelings for 3 years, 3 years of blaming that man,
Then she forgive him, from the bottom of her heart, because that"s what she had to do to move forward, She’s an emperor now and doesn’t have the privilege to follow her personal grudges, She truly, out of her own violation forgave him, to make her country strong again. Thinking of your people before yourself and personal grudges, that’s being an emperor. And this girl was unqualified, still is, but she’s moving forward, not stuck in place anymore, and with the help of her 2 brother by her side back again she will return this country to what it was and more.
And hakuryuu understands that now. Yes he didn’t want his country destruction, but that what his actions led to. He never meant to put kougyoku on a pedestal, but he left and that’s what happened. And so, he has to face the consequences, just like kouen did.
None of these two could have done anything alone, thy received help from people around them to reach their current state. there was always some good even on their worst times and they learned to take that and move forward.
It’s amazing how much these two changed in the span of the 6 years or so we’ve known them, and they’ll probably continue to, because the only thing constant in life is change, but they have people to ground them now, and they matured and learned to balance believing in themselves and other.
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scans from sensescans
backstage translated by hayarashi
GUYS.
(asl+uta) she's addicted to setting him up for failure
HISTORY OF MAN
taylor swift’s “at every table, i’ll save you a seat” vs maisie peters’ “i save you a seat then you say you wanna stand”
› ( almost ) all annie cresta moments.
CATCHING FIRE
annie is first mentioned on page 412, katniss just heard the jabberjays mimic prime but as soon as they stop, another voice starts screaming.
The piercing shriek cuts me off. It’s another voice, not prime’s, maybe a young woman’s. I don’t recognise it. But the effect on Finnick is instantaneous. The colour vanishes from his face and I can actually see his pupils dilate in fear. “Finnick, wait!” I say, reaching out to reassure him, but he’s bolted away. Gone off in pursuit of the victim, as mindlessly as I pursued prim. "Finnick!" I call, but I know he won't turn back and wait for me to give a rational explanation. So all I can do is follow him. It's no effort to track him, even though he's moving so fast, since he leaves a clear, trampled path in his wake. But the bird is at least half a kilometre away, most of it uphill, and by the time I reach him, I'm winded. He's circling around a giant tree. The trunk must be over a metre in diameter and the limbs don't even begin until six metres up. The woman's shrieks emanate from somewhere in the foliage, but the jabberjay's concealed. Finnick's screaming as well, over and over. "Annie! Annie!" He's in a state of panic and completely unreachable, so I do what I would do anyway. I scale an adjacent tree, locate the jabberjay, and take it out with an arrow. It falls straight down, landing right at Finnick's feet. He picks it up, slowly making the connection, but when I slide down to join him, he looks more despairing than ever. "It's all right, Finnick. It's just a jabberjay. They're playing a trick on us," I say. "It's not real. It's not your ... Annie." "No, it's not Annie. But the voice was hers. Jabberjays mimic what they hear. Where did they get those screams, Katniss?" he says. I can feel my own cheeks grow pale as I understand his meaning. "Oh, Finnick, you don't think they." "Yes. I do. That's exactly what I think," he says.
after the previous incident katniss thinks about what she’s learned. page 419
While Johanna collects water and my arrows, Beetee fiddles with his wire, and Finnick takes to the water. I need to clean up, too, but I stay in Pecta's arms, still too shaken to move. "Who did they use against Finnick?" he asks. "Somebody named Annie," I say. "Must be Annie Cresta," he says. "Who?" I ask. "Annie Cresta. She was the girl Mags volunteered for. She won about five years ago," says Peeta. That would have been the summer after my father died, when I first began feeding my family, when my whole being was occupied with battling starvation. "I don't remember those Games much," I say. "Was that the earthquake year?" "Yeah. Annie's the one who went mad when her district partner got beheaded. Ran off by herself and hid. But an earthquake broke a dam and most of the arena got flooded. She won because she was the best swimmer," says Peeta. "Did she get better after?" I ask. "I mean, her mind?" "I don't know. I don't remember ever seeing her at the Games again. But she didn't look too stable during the reaping this year," says Peeta.
So that’s who finnick loves, i think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the capital, but a poor mad girl back home.
Finnick and katniss talking after they leave the arena.
MOCKING JAY.
small moments before annie comes back.
annie first appearance and all while finnick is alive ( this does not include mentions )
annie after finnick dies, her thoughts on another hunger games.
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You'll see my face in every place But you can't catch me now
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@tellmewhatyouc remember when I said there was a drawing based on a scene from your Soft Focus-Fic? Well, I dug it up, and since I´ve actually started posting stuff on Tumblr again, I might as well show you!
For any fans of this rarepair out there who haven´t had the pleasure yet, I highly recommend you check it out, it´s a Modern AU-verse (with a unique take on some character´s special traits might I add), and this picture here is based on the scene where Ace and Law happen to fall asleep in the hospital´s waiting room. The only liberty I took is the still barely visible discolouration of Law´s skin, you have to look closely to spot it, I adore this headcanon and haven´t drawn him any other way up till now, but for the rest I tried to stick as close to the descriptions as I could ^^”
i wish this fight was animated it hit so hard...
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