Older woman who will not tell you her past. Shows open disdain for almost everything you do and say. Shares a bed with another man - the only one who calls her by a nickname. When said man tells you her traumatic backstory on the eve of your near-certain demise she grants you a courtesy fuck.
Educated young lady who you meet 2-3 times in a crisis situation. If you agree to not let her father rot in prison she grants you a courtesy fuck before making it clear you have no future.
Servant girl who grants you a shag in a meadow, possibly to distract you from your espionage. You hold her one night to prevent her nightmares. She dies the next day.
Widow who wink winks-nudge nudges you into a shag at a feast when you regale her with a tale of your bravery.
Knight who you possibly sparred with a few times. You have an implied night of passion after a subtle exchange. Next morning you discover he's working for the enemy and you can likely never see him again.
Prostitutes.
Your lord. Your master. Your raison d'Ätre. The man who you swore to protect on pain of death. Your best friend, the "only person you have left." The one who has saved your life almost as many times as you've saved his. The one who saw you at your lowest, then saw you crawl up from the bottom of an impenetrable social hierarchy to become a fearsome knight who crosses blades and wits with the most powerful men in your land. He calls you his guardian angel, his champion, his brave and faithful companion, the Lancelot to his Galehaut. He will kill himself if you die because life will have no meaning to him. He mirrors you along every step along your hero's journey until he breaks down into confession on the eve your near-certain demise, defying class conventions, social stigma, his unwanted betrothal, and fear of damnation to hold you at least once before it's too late.
You know that while he's thinking all of that, he's also thinking, "What the fuck kind of stupid fucking question is that, Sylvie?? What do you mean, what do I want? Have I not spoken to you every night of how deeply in love with Mobius I am? Have I not spoken to you at length about how adorable his mustache is? Have I not asked you every single night if I should confess my love to him and then promptly ignored your emphatic yes each and every time because I love him so profoundly that I sometimes forget how to speak properly and I'm afraid that he won't return my feelings? Have you not threatened me to within an inch of my life to stop bothering you for hours on end about how much I love him and just to TELL him already? And then you ask me that, here, now, like this, with a face that serious??"
there are incredibly few ppl w the privilege (white men) and platforms to loudly stand up to / question the current administration in america & a lot of them have been late night hosts. colbert meyers stewart & kimmel have consistently brought attention to whatās happening (fascism) to our country in a blunt straightforward way under a very thin veil of humor, and now, after just eight months of trump, TWO have been fired
Do you think the scrapped version of Loki S2 E5 was more queer and that's why it wasn't allowed to continue? Lokius for life šššš
I'm fully convinced they made them canon in the scrapped version, cos why else would D*sney tell them to redo the whole thing when the episode was everyone's favorite and already completely finished? Also, the fact that several people saw Tom kiss Owen on the cheek on set at the jetski store. Plus, Eric Martin (headwriter) has shown on twitter that he's a Lokius fan. And in general, everyone who has worked on season 2 seems to love them together. This will haunt me forever...curse you, D*sney.
Most viscerally romantic shit I've ever seen in a game shortlist:
[kcd2 spoilers]
that moment where henry is trying to hold brabant (then a stranger, a potential threat) at sword point -- but then he unexpectedly sees hans. and we get the close up of his whole face twitching and grimacing as he is overwhelmed with relief and we see all the breath go out of him. and then we watch as henry visibly, physically vacillates between the need to restrain/threaten the presumed enemy and the extreme physical urge to go to hans. and ultimately he can't fucking stand it and drops his sword and turns his back on the enemy because he can't bear not going to hans
hans's enormous so-big-it-looks-like-it-hurts ugly grin as he shoves his face into henry's shoulder to squeeze him & how it appears again, much later, when he cannot keep kissing henry because he cannot control his smile
the mundane but gutting dismay of realizing the trosky armorer has issued dinged up shit to henry's (your) beloved lord because no one here except henry (you) really gives a damn if hans lives or dies. the horrible sinking feeling warhorse puts in your/henry's gut as he holds that shitty steel breast in his hands and thinks of it being all that protects his much loved little birdie, whom he almost lost to the noose, in the upcoming battle, and he asks "is this really all that's left?"
"you've never let me down" gets a lot of admiration, but for me the choice line from that scene is hans's genuinely pathetic plea of "don't do this to me" when henry deliriously calls out for his dead pa
the terror breaking through hans's voice as he screams out "henry henry for the love of god"
warhorse modelling and evoking henry missing hans via their deliberately timed placement of gnarly & semine's introduction - and how incredibly similar their dynamic/personalities are to hans & henry, a vision of what might be possible for them in the future, if only they could find each other again in the present
"you must be homesick" Jobst says as he offers Henry a return home - and though the ENTIRE game has been engineered to make us feel homesick, Henry declines in such an instant and honest way, it clarifies there will be no "going home" physically or emotionally if hans isn't with him
every toll of that fucking bell and what it does to henry's (your) heart
he cups his head in his hand the whole time the whole time the WHOLE time
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