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I believe in the separation of church (fandom) and state (media creators)
Adapted from this text post by @the-delta-42
i have suddenly become obsessed with a theme that HoO established but never proceeded to extrapolate on, which is:
You are Percy Jackson, and you have been swapped with a boy who was allegedly everyone's favorite person, but they have decided to replace him with you. They just met you. You stand next to his best friend and the people he's known his entire life. In his home. In his cloak. In his place. They stopped looking for him.
You are Jason Grace, and you have just found out you have a long lost sister who completely replaced you in her life with this girl you just met. Your lives and personalities are mirrors. She is you, living the life you were robbed of.
You are Annabeth Chase, and you have just become starkly aware that you have been inhabiting the void left behind by your best friend's long lost brother. You and Luke were just replacements for him. Now you have to look him in the eyes when he has nothing and know you took that life from him.
You are Piper McLean, and you have just found out your relationship is fake and built entirely on the memories of Annabeth Chase. You have been given a boyfriend when hers has been taken away. You have no idea how much of it is real or not but regardless you feel like if your relationship isn't exactly in their image that you have failed.
You are Leo Valdez, and you have just learned that you are the echo of your great-grandfather. You are not your own person. You just exist to be a mirror of him. A doppelganger. An actor and stunt double facing all the danger he never had to but wearing his face. To be there for his best friend decades later simply because he couldn't. You are playing a role. A seventh wheel and a pawn for a goddess who carefully sculpted your entire life for her own purposes.
You are Hazel Levesque, and the only reason you are alive is because your brother couldn't save your his sister. You are a consolation prize. An apology. Your existence here is misplaced in every way but you inhabit it anyways.
You are Frank Zhang, and you are a shapeshifter. Inhabiting your own body feels strange and clumsy when you could be literally anything at any time. You are anything and everything and live your life with the simple certainty of knowing exactly how you will die.
I don't get why headcannons wars exist, I hold at least 3 different, mutually contradicting headcannons about each plot element of everything like they're in a superposition at all times
*sweeps all of my AU ideas under the rug* why must I be called out this way?
@nights-of-fire @athy-n-lucas
… *awkward shuffling*
Six of Crows au where the crows stay in Ketterdam after the heist (and Matthias is alive obvs) and Colm (Jesper’s father) visits Ketterdam all the time because those kids really need a parent figure like Nina what do you mean you haven’t seen your parents since you were a kid? Excuse me Wylan your father did WHAT NOW?? Matthias what about your family? Dead? Oh. Inej? ‘Somewhere in Ravka’ isn’t that specific. Kaz what do you mean your mother is Ketterdam go get some therapy please. And so Jesper’s dad adopts his son’s whole friend group
I love how Colm Fahey's like "why are you children doing all of these crimes, where are the adults who are supposed to be taking care of you," and Jesper's like "omg dad, stop trying to adopt my friends."
(I mean, they refuse to be adopted, but he tries, because clearly the adults of Ketterdam can't be trusted to handle this)
thinking abt how after the war dissolving the team stuff for voltron feels so weird and how the after is always going to be somewhat of a problem for stories where a group of people are brought together by an experience so intense and life consuming.
it's like how some heroes and vigilantes could never retire. the only way out for them is death or severe permanent injury. the idea they'd just.. stop one day feels absurd. especially because the fight is endless.
you could technically consider the conflict resolved by defeating Zarkon. the big bad is defeated, Earth is protected from invasion, etc etc. BUT there's still the lasting effects of the empire. the environmental destruction, the military occupation of planets, the millions of people who still need to be liberated and rebuild their society; just because the leader dies it doesn't mean there aren't still factions that remain.
then there's the fact that voltron was a team. like yeah yeah sure they don't need the giant robot anymore, but how do you go back to living without these people who share an incredibly unique experience with you?? how do you become a civilian again after such a great conflict that you were integral to? it would take time to get used to living among people who weren't there. who you didn't fight with and you don't know them in the specific context of watching your back.
I know the paladins were so young and never really wanted to fight a war but idk I feel like even if it wasn't the guilt that kept them from fighting when they knew the good they could do, I think it would be incredibly difficult to escape the "fighting for my life and the sake of the universe" mindset. it carried a strong sense of duty.
they'll return home but they'll never be the people they were before.. as much as I'd love to imagine them going on to a peaceful life on Earth it will always be strange because they'll always be a paladin a part of them is always going to live in the universe beyond.
On one hand, Young Justice is kind of neglected by the actual superheroes that should be looking out for them in a lot of crucial ways and very much failed by the adults around them
But on the other hand Red Tornado straight up hosts a parent-teacher conference where their respective legal guardians all show up, barring Batman who’s in traffic so Nightwing fills in instead because Robin’s dad does not know he’s a vigilante which is objectively hilarious
I just want one thing, let the newer/younger/was dead when YJ was doing their thing (Jason)/was negectful when YJ was doing their thing (literally Everyone) and figures out the Stuff YJ got up to?? Like Darkside(Dave), the baseball game, Santa Claus, or there are So Many things. Red Tornado would like their mentors to Read Tim's reports (they're very thorough) because he would like therapy (no one knows if he means for himself or the kids)
having a freeze response to stress is so funny in the context of normal adult stressors. millions of years of evolution are trying to tell me that the email will not find me if i stay very still and do nothing
If I pretend this engineering essay isn't real it can't hurt me! I'm on Tumblr not google docs!
(It does hurt, it does. It hurts so much.)
you see geralt found this little girl whose mind had been destroyed and her childhood robbed from her and her body experimented on and thought what she needed was empathy because empathy had helped him too. and went to get jaskier. do you understand
anyway jaskier is like. basically the human equivalent of those wild animals someone feeds who've lost all fear of people and now just break into houses to eat out of the trash and chill in the pool
he's been travelling with a witcher since he was 18. he has zero fear of any of them. he associates witchers with Having Things Done For Him and Being Provided For and Give Love. he has no reservations whatsoever about going up to any random witcher he happens to pass when geralt isn't around and asking them to help him with something or do something for him or just. trailing after them for a while because he knows if he whines perfectly on pitch they'll hunt his dinner and store his shit in their horse's saddlebags and keep him safe on the road, even if they're grumpy about it. at kaer morhen he is like the stray cat geralt fed one time and now everyone is just like "well he lives here now i guess". it just Does Not Occur to him that he might ever be in danger with a witcher around. this is a man who finds things lying around in the kaer morhen lab and just fucking. eats them
anyway. those "please do not feed the animals it teaches them to approach people" signs but. for jaskier and the oxenfurt students who start trying to imitate him and adopt a witcher
I just realized the main characters of KOTLC have to be, like, teen celebrities of a sort at Foxfire.
I’m rereading stellarlune rn and got to that one part where Jensi is like “hi, can I sit here? Is that okay? I feel like I just interrupted a ‘how to save the world this time’ conversation” and then Dex is like “yeah that’s exactly what we were talking about actually but you can sit here anyway!” So then Jensi just sits with them and they proceed to talk about troll treaties and caches and Marella’s pyrokinesis training like everything they’re saying is totally normal and he’s just sort of there.
And that gave me this weird sense that while it doesn’t get acknowledged a lot in the series because Sophie isn’t hyper-aware of the other teens (she has so much of her own drama to worry about ON TOP of having to be the hero every book) her friend group is, like, so weird and important.
Like, they’re just sitting at lunch at school, talking about Elvin politics and classified secrets that councilors erased from their brains and how Marella bribed an ancient pyrokinetic with an evil history into revealing one such secret. And meanwhile all the other kids are at lunch like “haha, so what’s up with you and him huh? Yeah lol. Oh yeah and that table over there, that’s where they talk about saving the world and a bunch of information that isn’t revealed to the public bc they only know it bc they’re going to use it to save us all and stop a war lol. They’re so weird haha. Anyway what was I saying?”
Just casually a whole lunchroom of lots of friend groups talking and everyone just casually accepts that there’s that one table in the corner where the famous kids talk about Elvin secrets and illegal or classified stuff and saving the universe. Like yeah ok that’s normal now.
This type of thing is exactly why I feel social media should be a thing with elves
Gosh just IMAGINE the memes. The references. The other schools reacting to some foxfire kid's ElfTok that went like "when she's a 10 but she sits in that one table in the cafeteria"
Foxfire Kid On Elf Twitter: "biggest ick is when a guy goes to Elwin for a small cut or headache. Elwin is there for life or death injuries only, get a grip"
Normal Elf In Comment Section: "Yo WTF?"
I guarantee you that never ever in his entire life had Radovid been so happy to be a prince as in the moment in which he spotted Jaskier, world famous bard, his celebrity crush, and he got to pull out that *hand held delicately out* Radovid, Prince, nonsense. 😂😭
Internally you know he was like, fucking finally, this shit is paying dividends for me.
Tiresias: That's my daughter, Manto.
Cadmus: You've never told me you're married. Who's your wife?
Tiresias: ...
Tiresias: About that...
*a few minutes later*
"Came back wrong" trope but actually the character came back right. A character who, when they were living, hid and changed so many parts of themself around others to appease them and, when they died and came back, they stopped doing so and started living as who they always have been. But everyone thinks they came back wrong because of how different they are
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