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[musedbyalli]

"Happy Birthday Kakashi~Sensei!" (From,Sakura Haruno)

Link to Image: https://x.com/BrentonsArt/status/1695469563456921700

"For me?" Kakashi hadn't been expecting anyone to remember his birthday, and he certainly hadn't been expecting any presents. He accepted the present offered to him, smiling at the World's Best Sensei balloon.

He slowly began to unwrap it, somewhat awkwardly. "Thank you, Sakura."

[sineala]

Um,Excuse me in Layman's terms in seems like in a post regarding Civil War it says that Tony is willing to sacrifice lives,...they make it sound like he's willing to...Kill his friends or something!?Deep down I think that I know it isn't true, but anyway I hope that it wasn't meant to be written that way,Either way this question is meant purely beacause I Love him and I'm...seeking reassurance I guess!? 😢💔

I don't know what post you're talking about -- but I would say that that's more of a figure of speech for comics Civil War, because finding a solution that will preserve life is absolutely Tony's priority. He's willing to do a lot of bad things so that people won't end up dead. The things he is willing to do do in fact involve other people getting hurt -- but they're not dying.

(If it's my post, I don't remember writing a post like that, but I would say that "sacrifice lives" is being used as a metaphorical proxy for the other things he is willing to sacrifice (say, freedom), but the thing he is specifically not willing to sacrifice in CW is actual human life. So I hope I didn't write that, because that seems prone to misinterpretation, as you say. If it's not my post, then... that's not how I would put it and I'm not standing by that statement.)

I'd say that in other comics events we have evidence that Tony would in theory be willing to sacrifice others' lives for the greater good. I mean, in Hickmanvengers, specifically, he is participating in their incursion trolley-problem. He builds bombs to destroy the other Earths. When it comes down to it, of course, he can't pull the trigger, but I get the impression that, in theory, he'd say that he could sacrifice a small number of people to spare a larger number of people who would otherwise die by inaction. (He also can't actually do it, FWIW.) He's not an arms dealer anymore, no, but he's also not a strict pacifist; I think you could get him into a situation where he'd think that the best moral choice possible might involve someone dying. And there are definitely villains whose deaths he would condone -- I mean, that's what we get in Operation Galactic Storm. He has killed people. He's not proud of it, but he's willing to do it. (This is true of most superheroes, I would think.)

But in Civil War? The plans he makes are specifically to avoid getting other people killed. We find out his reasoning in Casualties of War and The Confession. He knew that the government had plans to run Project Wideawake -- the Sentinel program that is usually the thing the government tries to do to mutants -- with all superhumans as the target, and therefore he knew that if Registration happened, and Wideawake happened, a bunch of of people would die. So he gets in there and gets in charge of Registration and does a bunch of things that are really pretty terrible, like building prisons and imprisoning his friends who don't register. He does this because imprisonment is a better choice than death. Because if someone else runs Registration -- we know this canonically, from What If Civil War, where we see a world in which Gyrich runs Registration -- his friends are absolutely going to die. He very specifically picks the solution that doesn't involve killing them. He is willing to sacrifice their happiness and freedom and so on, and he's willing to do that because the other choice is sacrificing their lives. So I think in CW he is very specifically not willing to sacrifice lives. (Other than his own. There are a few statements he makes to Sentry in New Avengers that suggest he'd be fine with dying for the cause.)

And the thing that really messes him up is, as we find out in The Confession, that he does all of this to try to keep people safe and alive... and Steve dies anyway. The one person whose death he was most trying to prevent is the person who dies anyway. Granted, it's not his fault (even though he believes it is) and it's also not because of Registration (even though he possibly believes it is), but what really, really hurts him is Steve's death, because that was absolutely unacceptable to him. And it happened anyway.

So, yeah, no, in Civil War, I would say that life is the thing Tony is not willing to sacrifice, and that all the actions he takes are meant to preserve human life.

However, I must inform you that sometimes comics are bad and there are multiple comics where Tony does in fact straight-up kill his friends. It's just that none of those are Civil War.

Mostly it happens because Tony is under some form of mind-control, as in The Crossing, which is, incidentally, the worst comic book I have ever read and it's hard to say what he does or doesn't believe in it. But I think that we're supposed to think that all of the murders he commits are indeed at Kang's instigation.

And there is, unfortunately, Cantwell's recent Iron Man run, in which Tony, who is at the time addicted to morphine and making some very bad decisions, gets the Power Cosmic and murders Rhodey when Rhodey tries to stop him from taking over New York. This isn't a villain AU or anything. This is one of several reasons that this run is dead to me. So, uh, sometimes canon itself is OOC and can contradict things previously established in canon. This is a fun thing that can happen in comic books. I am using the word "fun" sarcastically.

[musesofchaos]

16. for a loving starter . ((Sasuke Uchiha from Sakura Haruno))

Pink. A pretty colour, it was. Soft, vibrant… a beautiful scenery in the spring as cherry blossom petals fluttered with the breeze.

Sasuke has concluded that pink is his favourite colour. Obsidian eyes watching carefully as his pale fingers runs through soft strands of hair. Looking down at the vintage like beauty that lay asleep beside him. A kind soul that to this day he still believed he didn’t deserve.

He watches quietly as her chest raises and falls, face soft and looking so peaceful. It’s selfish, he knows that he shouldn’t disturb her. But wants to see her smile, to see green eyes look up at him as they cutely blink away sleep.

The Uchiha leans down. Softly pressing a kiss to the kunoichi’s forehead. “Sakura…” His face is soft, barely above a whisper. “Are you awake?”

[thechaoticcform-archive]

"Forests and Sunflowers!" ((Titania to Oberon Smell Meme))

"I'm glad you like, my dear."

[amillixnvoicesarch]

( continued from here ) @asknoeloftheresistance​

Gwen only responded by gently kissing her forehead and running her fingers through her long~dark black locks, Morgana would talk about it if she needed to, considering the nature of her dreams. But for now she needed to rest and relax! She did her best to keep her at peace,praying the lovely illuminating, moonlit starry night would continue to grant her the same respite! It was clear that she wasn’t going home tonight,…This was her home, She was needed right here!

Gwen had always been there for her, and Morgana sometimes thought that she didn’t show her appreciation for the other woman. Gwen was her saving grace, much more than a servant really, and in moments like these she was reminded of that. Her nightmares were bad enough as it was, but the thought of having to go through them alone was even more terrifying. 

“I’m sorry...” Morgana eventually muttered, pulling back ever so slightly but reaching out to grab Gwen’s hand, as if she was afraid the other woman would vanish if she didn’t hold on. “I didn’t mean to keep you...”

[albionsdestinytm]

@asknoeloftheresistance​ asked: "Arthur,... I'm Pregnant!" Guinevere stated proudly as she wrapped her arms gently around her belly, knowing this was the most precious gift she could ever hope to give him! (Anniversary , Return, Modern, Based on Kingdom Come! I know it wasn't quite clear but no one explicitly stated that they could no longer be together despite her "not having" her official title as "queen" in the end! ) 

    Arthur had never expected to hear those words out of Gwen’s mouth, in fact, he’d mentally prepared himself a long time ago of it just being them. Not only had she lost her first child, but he knew the circumstances of his own birth and didn’t expect her to go through all of that trauma. He just hoped that now that she was pregnant, he wasn’t going to lose her. Not after everything they’d been through already in both lifetimes. He put on a smile despite his worries and said, “That’s excellent, Guinevere.” In truth, he hadn’t even known she would want to stay with him, not knowing her past with Leon, but it was their anniversary and they were making things work. Walking closer to her, Arthur pressed a tender kiss to her cheek before he asked, “How are you feeling? Are you doing okay with all of this?”

[wcterwithin]

@asknoeloftheresistance​ // GWEN sent:

“Please don't look at me like that!"

ANGST PROMPTS

“I once considered you a friend, Gwen. Did you know that?”

[arthur-rex]

ooc: hello to new followers

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