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[harley-style]

This is very not canon but imagine an au where phainon is the primordial one (yes theres fics of it but none have scratched my itch yet) and teyvat is just neo amphoreus but still in the scepter and phainon cant recover any of the chrysos heir data but can absolutely watch over this new world growing bc its what he promised to do. And then he fucks off for a while to go make the shades with cyrene or smth (i refuse to believe she isnt around somewhere) and comes back and wtf do you mean dragons are terrorizing humanity? (I vaguely think this is what happened but ofc not every dragon is that way theyre kinda just a little (a lot) egocentric)

Cue phainon "i will never bow down to this idea of fate, 33,550,336 cycle this bitch" khaslana going toe to toe with the dragons not bc he hates them but bc he just wants them to live in peace damn it, no terrorizing the soft squishy humans! Where is dan Heng he's the new earth titan right he needs to help phainon corral these assholes.

Unfortunately the dragons think he is a usurper even though he was here first?? Bitch?? Dragons are also excellent at holding grudges so unfuckingfortunately for phainon he is stuck with their anger for another good few millennia.

And THEN a few millennia in gods start fighting over territory and fucking up the humans AGAIN and phainon has to think of a way to stop them, but hes also at the end of his rope and decides, fuck it, ill install the gods who love humans so BADLY they'll do essentially what i did to come out on top of this and THATS why the archon war starts. Phainon's criteria is literally "which one of you fuckers care about humanity enough to fight for it?

Barbatos is fairly simple—that little guy fought against his nature and fought for freedom. Easy enough. God, why does everyone think its a fluke? Phainon ADORES the concept of freedom and what barbatos represents! Imagine if they had that kind of titan back on amphoreus....well okay hyacine clutched st the end BUT IF THEY HAD SOMEONE LIKE BARBATOS MAYBE HIS PARTNERS WOULDNT HAVE BEEN SHOT DOWN THE SKY. Imagine that!

Morax was slightly complicated....it was meant to go to haagentus but morax does strictly adhere to contracts so it should be fine....right? Right. Right.

Baal was a no brainer. Understanding the concept of transience was so important. Phainon thinks back to how slowly aglaea lost her humanity and thinks, yes. Understanding the transience of all life is absolutely necessary.

He thought the three god kings were neat, it was rather unfortunate two of them went so early, there went his plans of making two extra gnoses. But buer was fine

Egeria had a lot of love for humanity and justice that phainon nearly gave her the spot immediately

Xbalanque and natlan was so reminiscent of his times with mydei. Secretly phainon's favorite place was natlan.

And the tsar...phainon wonders if cyrene had a hand in it. Love, shown with ice. Hmmmmmmmm.

There's also that godless nation but phainon doesnt really care? Professor Anaxa would have been thrilled.

Of course things go to shit bc as much as phainon has duties to lvoe and care for humanity, humanity is...flawed. Rhinedottir releases her hounds, the five sinners asborb the abyss, and phainon and his shades are forced to do clean up. Man.

Phainon had to sleep after bc he was genuinely near crashing the fuck out and when he wakes up—HUH? Wdym the thrones changed? Phainon is missing SO much conrext.

Also i do want to see a scene where neuvillete handles the case as judge and disproves of phainon, but is utterly surprised when he learns about what teyvat means to phainon and the revelation that hey, maybe the dragons werent here first and the usurper wasnt a usurper but rather an actual originator of teyvat. Wouldnt that knowledge just fuck you up inside?

[blackwila-owo]

Phainon fall asleep and then chimera come to lie down around him like cat bathe in the sun

[demusu]

This is the cutest thing ive seen. I need this.

[demusu]

Someday id like to see a story about these two characters that fall in love and theyre both like average people like no superpowers or insane backstory or whatever

BUT theres this one background character thats basically the main character of a fantasy adventure type story

And all three of them go to the same school and are in the same class ok? So the–background–character–in–the–story–but–the–main–character–of–their–world watches the couple slowly fall in love while hes fighting the demon–fairy–king and totally ships them

[demusu]

I need someone to do the "Alan we are so fucked" thing with Follo and Alan (the hammer) rn man

It would be so great

[mentalmondai]

was there no testosterone left in the oven by the time they got to him or what

[partycemetery]

y is he live tweeting the trash storm arc

[shantechni]

You walk into a bar and the bartender asks if you want a "manga/BH Ed becomes so viscerally nauseous at the mere idea of digging up what he believes to be his mom's corpse that he throws up multiple times" or an "03 Ed fights his tears and apologizes over and over as he forces himself to desecrate his mom's grave and retrieve a piece of her body"

Instead you ask for the "03 Ed passes out from seeing a corpse because it reminds him so much of the mutilated body he and Al created just a few months ago" special because that drink is unironically light by comparison

Realistically, you should walk tf out and call the health inspector to have that bar shut down for offering you such a lethal amount of angst—

[demusu]

Wtf.

[doordraws]

Team Greed shenanigans bc they share one brain cell

[wusnus]

greedling doodles

[wusnus]

had to redraw this comic as greed

[dwellsinthebog]

actually i'm not done yapping about fma greed bc the way this freak's mind works is utterly baffling and hilarious and must be studied.

the circumstances of greed 2.0's birth are a little unusual as it is, what with ling willingly accepting greed. but then we go a more typical route with greed completely taking over ling's body (or so we think in the moment), ed doing the expected "nooooo i know you're still in there!!!" speech, and greed vehemently denying this. we're led to believe that there's probably going to be some sort of push&pull relationship between greed and ling vying for dominance, possibly ending with them teaming up. but obviously, that'll take a while, right? RIGHT?

well yes but actually no because. BECAUSE. the very next episode, greed shows up to deliver a message from ling to edward.

now think about the logistics of this for a second. greed presumably listened to the voice in his head (that is NOT supposed to be there btw bc human-based homunculi are supposed to eliminate and replace the human soul in the vessel, like with wrath/king bradley) begging him to write out a message in a language (xingese) he does not know and deliver it to the guy (edward elric) currently being hunted down by his boss/pseudo-father.

does he know what the message is?? nope!! it could've been literally anything under the sun---how to make lasagna! how to vaporize a homunculus!---but he has no clue what it means because it's in xingese. also, how exactly did he write it? did ling just flash pictures in his head until he could copy them down in a legible manner? is that why it looks like dogshit? and why on earth would he write it in what looks like blood?? to fuck with ed??? to fuck with lan fan???? was this written by ling before he acquired greed, and greed is just delivering it later???

whatever the case, it's utterly absurd that greed chooses to blindly (arrogantly....or perhaps naively.........) believe that no harm could possibly come from trusting the guy in his head.

who, again, IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE THERE.

and then he just fucks off. no questions for the elric brothers, no threats, no posturing. he's done doing the thing ling asked him to do so he just......leaves.

HUH???

[dwellsinthebog]

nobody is doing it like greed the avaricious. he's centuries old but he was born yesterday. he's got a venom situation with the guy in his head, except he's the guy in the head. he's evil for about the 2.579 seconds it takes him to realize that he actually doesn't give a fuck about being evil. if anything happened to his things (NOT friends) he would kill everyone in a 500 mile radius and then himself. he's going through puberty.

[muchmossymess]

sampling text posts what do yall think ive got a lot more to come

[spookester]

Okay does ANYONE else like those fuckass crossover fics where it's just Ed living in a shed until someone breaks in and basically kidnaps him then proceeds to intargate him for being weird and suspicious for fixing random shit and him making a genuine business out of it? Please I need more and I've only been able to find two PLEASE

[its-all-clouds-in-this-noggin]

LETS SEE HOW FAR WE CAN GET!

I saw someone do this and it looked so fun! So here’s me making Phoebus do it hehe.

For each tier it’s the combo of reblogs and likes that’s unlocks it!!

At 5 reblogs and 10 likes is Hyacinthus

At 10 reblogs and 20 likes is Amyclae

At 15 reblogs and 30 likes is ??? 👁️

At 20 reblogs and 40 likes is Amyclae (bone plant ver)

At finally at 25 reblogs and 50 likes, ??? 🔪 Find out I guess

LETS MAKE HIM KISS HIM!!!

[ohmyjulai]

The last day of shooting

[yikesy]

when I'm reading toa fics and someone tells apollo that he's changed: a aaaaaaaaahhh

because I know, I know it's in character

but does the writer believe it?? and in which way???

because the thing about apollo i think, is that he did change in the trials but it was not in becoming a better person (it was about trusting and letting others in and finally giving up on zeus)

because he already was a good person when we meet him

and that's the thing

when we meet him

because he's already changed before

all these things people think his arc was about, all the lessons he supposedly speedran

oh he had that arc alright, he learned those lessons

long long before we ever meet him

like do you really think a god that supposedly narcissistic and shallow (NOT that I think those were ever his vices but that's the narrative they're trying to sell us) would ever act as he did??? change so much in just a year?? change so positively???? (because contrary to popular belief extreme pain and trauma do not generally make you a better person, especially not to a person with such a supposedly negative baseline personality)

he never struggles with or even LEARNS any lessons on morality, the ideas always magically spring fully formed because he already knew them he already has his own ideologies

what he does struggle with and has to learn is SINCERITY because THAT'S WHAT HIS ARC IS SECRETLY ALL ABOUT

and of course he has to vocalize his apologies since, well he never did say them

but make no mistake the apollo of at the very least the past century would have never done the things he's currently apologizing for

[yikesy]

and like with the humans it's mostly understandable (if personally annoying to me in particular)

BUT THE GODS???!!

their reaction would NOT be: *disdainful* oh you really changed we're looking down on you

it would be more like: OH MY FUCKING GOD WE WERE FOOLED

because that is,, pretty much what happened

it's just,,

if/when they were watching him like a fucking reality show I don't think they were like "oooh he's changing so fast I'm so uncomfortable and insecure in my identity" because,, that is straight up impossible, I think the general reaction was "I really didn't know him as well as I thought I knew him" and "holy f uck I remember this guy h o w the fuck did he manage to make me forget his entire personality when did this happen what the fuck????

[ukelele-boy]

Oooo

I like this take.

[flightfoot]

YES. I've been saying this for YEARS. He didn't really learn these lessons for the first time, this ain't a Kuzco situation. It's just that he's actually allowing himself to let the lessons stick. He's not able to turn a blind eye anymore, as much as that has been the method he's used for keeping himself safe over the millennia.

On another note, as far as the gods watching his trials go, I actually am the first, and so far only, person to complete a "watching the books" type fic for TOA, so you might want to check out my take on that! The series is called Gods' Eye View.

[demusu]

WAIT THATS YOU OMG I LOVED READING THAT