#but understandable

[gem-knight-lady-opal]

Marc:

Also, Marc earlier in the episode

[daemon-in-my-head]

Still of the belief that Gortash is so Gortash because he simply can't accept that his life and childhood have been shit for no particular reason. Like he can't accept a bad day is just a bad day. For him everything has to have a reason and justification and if there's none he will create one if he has to. After all he has justifications for everything else he does and the terror he unleashes as well.

And that's also why he himself is so fucked up and stuck. There was no reason for what happened. He knows this, subconsciously, he is smart and quite rational after all, but he simply can't accept it. It has to have a reason, there needs to be purpose otherwise all the pain and misery will have been just that and that's something he simply can not deal with.

So he destroys himself and others and talks about a grand purpose and how it's for the greater good when in reality it's just a man refusing to accept that his agony had no reason. That he, much like everyone else, is a plaything for the gods or the fates and that's a truth that he refuses to live with. That's why he calls a titan his equal. That's why he's obsessed with what parents do for their children. That's why he needs to find out how much agony one can endure before dying.

It's simply to justify what happened. The downfall of the Chosen who prides himself on rationality was that he refused to accept his emotions. That he wasn't destined to be the hero or the shining knight, that he was just like everyone else. That he's just human, with everything that entails.

[stepticel]

Guess who ordered lil keychains of this guyyyy :3333c

[lilsillyguyb]

yes um. hi hello expired milk

[honourablejester]

I was reading something about that trope where one character is trying to talk another character down from bloodily avenging someone they loved (and thereby losing their morality) by appealing to the memory of the lost loved one: “You’re [spouse/parent/child/friend] wouldn’t have wanted this!”

And then I remembered the Mariner’s Revenge Song by The Decemberists, in which the narrator could reply to this tactic with an entirely honest: “Oh, no. My mother gave me explicit and graphic instructions on how to avenge her. But thanks anyway. Excuse me, I gotta go find a man, bind him, tie him to a pole and break his fingers to splinters, then drag him to a hole until he wakes up naked clawing at the ceiling of his grave.”

Gotta love a backstory dead parent, dead mother, at that, where she was fully, no, no, I need you to go hunt this man down and graphically torture him to avenge me. None of this morality shit.

(To, like, a five year old, mind you).

Now, there turned out to be logistical issues to this mission (to the tune of a giant whale and the difficulty of burying someone naked and broken in a grave while you’re both inside said whale), but hey. He gave it his best shot!

[rwby-confess]

Confession #324

[childrenofcain-if]

My crackpot theory is that C should kiss me on my hot mouth

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