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'' this too shall pass " (multifandom)

[idiotsinthesnow]

surebrec.

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greatest of all time.

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synthetic love.

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synthetic love.

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all eyes are on me, they tune in like truman !

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doodle bc i love these dumbasses

[idiotsinthesnow]

cowboy like me !!

[idiotsinthesnow]

[keiicom]

I need original Nice's real name to know who to mourn I'm so fucking serious rn. If I have to call him one more time by the name of the sickness they forged for him I'm gonna scream

He was not Nice. Nice could fly. Nice was perfect. Whoever died that day couldn't fly. Didn't want to. Rejected the very notion of it with every inch of his being. Whoever died that day chose to fall the way regular people would do, because he, too, was just a person. And he was never more himself than he was at that moment. The only real thing we see of him is the way he finger guns and smiles, and looks so very bitter, so very tired.

I need his name so I can know who was lost in the fucked up system tbhx shows us. I can't keep calling him by the very word that got him killed guys I can't

[tuftastuff]

Lin Ling might not be the og Nice but he fits the role perfectly, because he's, well, nice. He's kind. He's empathetic.

He freed Moon from her curse. He gave her her freedom back, even though he was going against his own wishes. He made sure people prayed for her freedom, so she could finally leave.

He understood Wolf Girl and why she did what she did. He *gets* her. He sympathizes. He knows, he understands emotions, he's quick to connect facts.

And, by extension, he freed FirmMan. From his shackles as a firm superhero, that never bows, that never falters. He understands the stress, the expectations, the internal struggle.

I think his previous job helped at that. He had to look at nuances, he had to know what to do to make people feel certain things. That's how ads and generally, promotional content works - they have to make you feel something. Whether they make you curious, angry, sad, happy, inspired - they invoke emotions.

Lin Ling gives a lot and does not expect anything back in return. He's Nice.

Also, it was very interesting watching his perfectionism intensify. How he corrected that cup in the begging of the episode, like he just couldn't help himself, it just *had* to be even, in the middle. It's just kinda eerie. How the public perception is starting to control him, even to the smallest details. He's not "a bit more neat freaky than usual", he's getting full on ocd, everything needs to be clean, perfect, even, it's maddening. And he's so alone. Miss J doesn't listen, Moon left him, and FirmMan, the person that could understand him, didn't even want to listen to him.

GOD I love Ling Lin. This episode was the full emotional baggage and I'm so excited for the next episode oh my, it's gonna be absolutely emotionally damaging and I'm here for that!!!!!

[idiotsinthesnow]

Is it a wonder I broke?

[mightydyke]

I love when fiction makes the audience feel guilty about their role as the audience. When something fucked up is treated as a joke but later it's recognised how fucked up it was and the audience feels guilty for finding it funny. When a character breaks the fourth wall to plead for help, and you can't do anything so you just watch. And you know that the characters pain isn't real, but they're begging for help and you're not helping because their suffering is entertainment for you

[aidonotknow]

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inprnt: I, II, III

[paiteyy]

TRIGUN MAXIMUM SPOILERS

I don’t think y’all understand.

Vash- extreme pacifist who has never killed anyone, except when having his bodily autonomy violently violated and being made to do it against his will (who still blames himself) - The - it is never right to kill no matter what - Stampede, kills a man for Wolfwood.

He kills a man because he cannot bear for Wolfwoods sacrifice to be in vain.

The only person Vash ever kills of his own free will is for Wolfwood.

This absolute refusal to kill is a key, defining, bone deep aspect of who Vash is as a person. He does not kill. He does so to honor his dead mother (Rem). Knives has been trying to get Vash to kill for centuries, Vash has not. Not under threat of pain, death, hatred, or anything else.

He breaks all of this for Wolfwood.

And once he’s done it?

All he can think of is what he’s said to Wolfwood, how Wolfwood must have felt.

(Not to mention that Wolfwood dies living by Vash’s philosophy, refusing to kill, and Vash lives thanks to Wolfwood’s) ((in a way Wolfwood saves and guides Vash even after he’s gone)

[huginsmemory]

Also... Not only does Wolfwood's death cause Vash to choose to kill, but the first time that Wolfwood kills to save Vash, this outcome of Wolfwood dying changing Vash's ethics is foreshadowed.

They were always going to change each other to the point that they would both give up their ethics for each other; it is critical to their story. And as a result, Wolfwood was always going to die in a way that would change Vash's ethics, even if it's not the way Wolfwood thinks at this point in the manga.

Also, can we talk about how the gung-ho guns were ordered to cause Vash the highest amount of pain to break Vash's ethics, and in the end, Wolfwood ended up being the one that caused Vash the most pain and was the one that broke his ethics.

[paiteyy]

PRECISELY!!! Agh this is so good!!

Like the whole point of Wolfwood as a Gung-Ho Gun (at least the way Knives planned it) was to get close to Vash and then to betray him. To show him another failure of humanity and hurt him further.

But that’s not what happens.

Sure, Wolfwood “betrays” Vash, but it doesn’t stick, he cares too much, he’s too loyal to Vash. So he saves him, he betrays Knives for Vash, despite everything he has to lose.

And that’s the thing.

Vash could have lived with Wolfwood’s betrayal, he understood and never would have blamed him for it. Especially considering the intense circumstances. In fact, he probably would have been glad Wolfwood did it, been glad Wolfwood and the kids at the orphanage were safe.

But no, Wolfwood comes back for him.

Against all odds Wolfwood stages a one man assault on the Arc to get Vash back.

And, when it comes down to it, he dies for it.

Knives accidentally planed his own downfall, because Vash could have lived with Wolfwood’s betrayal, could have let bygones be bygones, but he could never live with what happened to Wolfwood because of his loyalty

And here, this is the moment that Knives knows something has changed.

This is Vash making a statement, it ends here.

Also don’t even get me started on how Vash uses a massive amount of his life shortening power to protect Wolfwood’s body and the remnants of his old home that he fought his entire life to protect. To protect Wolfwood from Knives where he failed couldn’t before.

[idiotsinthesnow]

that was the night i nearly lost you, i really thought i'd lost you.