➻ @convulsus whispered :
“ i always trust that you’ve got my back ” / lavi @ mi !!
she's already rolling her eyes , both of them are beaten & scarred from the most recent attack on a village . neither was exactly prepared for the sudden jump , however neither hesitated to jump right into action . now, here they were , both of them hunch over one another & slowly making their way back to the order . regardless of his wounds , there was no short of energy and or vigor from him , prattling on about whatever he pleased . akin to seeing a friend that one hadn't seen in quite a while , mi kyong can only laugh in response to this . seemingly retaining his usual behavior despite what they'd witnessed . however , a part of her knew ( that facade of his , was nothing more than what it was . a mask . ). it was barely the time to critique him , for mi kyong didn't necessarily have the energy or will to do so .
❛ nothing can really get you down , can it ? ❜ his reply followed with laughter & a proposition of date , how very much like him . like a flash , a sensation of immense pain courses through Mi Kyong . looking down and seeing blood pour from her side , goodness , it'd seemed things took a turn for the worst . before anything could be done , both of them fall to the ground . Lavi's wounds as well were taking a turn for the worse , what a laughable situation . laying on the ground , their eyes cannot help but gaze at one another . pondering , wondering . did this mean death ? mi kyong could tell right away , fear . there was fearing dancing within Lavi's eyes , reaching out and grabbing his hand .
❛ don't be afraid , I won't let go . I promise , I'll keep holding on till the end . ❜ flashing him a smile , it'd seem Mi Kyong had fully accepted imminent death . lifting herself up , despite how much it hurt to breathe in & out . a hand finds it's placed on top of red locks , moving her hand back & forth . like a mother whispering her child to sleep . && with that , their eyes closed . hand in hand .
the sound of monitors beeping is finally what awakes Mi Kyong , slowly opening her eyes to see the walls of the medical ward located within the Black Order . her mind far too foggy and clouded to figure out what had happened , and how on earth they both managed to arrive here . seeing the familar staff put things at ease , next thing she knew it a flash of red zoomed towards her . a carefully bandaged Lavi , there he was . alive & well . it'd seemed Mi Kyong's condition was far worse off , and took even longer to recover . ❛ lavi , what are you crying for ? I told you , I wouldn't let go for even a second . ❜ gentle hands cradle his face , wiping away his tears from overflowing . by the luck of the GODS , there they were . alive & well .
“ HUH ? C’MON DAICHI I THOUGHT YOU’D HAVE BETTER DEFENSE THAN THIS ! YOU’RE SUCKING , DUDE . if your chara dies again gimmie back the switch i’ll beat this monster’s ass no PROBLEM - ”
‘ you’re so quiet you’re almost tomorrow. ‘ / gladio @ mister ignis uwu
some survivals are not without cruelty.
devotion and its decisive pain . . . it had cost him his sight. an ultimatum, he supposes, for acknowledging his own recklessness and still opting to put on the ring anyway. even now, he feels the burning. his left hand closes, gladio speaks. he speaks like he has pin - pointed what he’s thinking of, and ignis wouldn’t put it past him that he does. credit where it’s due.
as much as he would rather not speak tonight, his voice is quiet and heavy on the air. ‘‘ i suppose it will take me a while to . . . adjust. ’’ not on purpose, he pushes the tinted glasses up his nose. an act of hiding. ‘‘ . . . gladio. ’’ he remembers the words so well, he might as well be hearing them right now again: 𝐚 𝐬𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞. ignis can only feel the bonfire grow weaker, and in his sigh hides the silent thanks for the fact prompto and noctis had called it a night earlier than usual. maybe due the tension. ‘‘ there is no telling my sight will ever recover, or if this is the only price i will pay. ’’ the thought of secondary effects haunts him like the words all the same.
‘‘ 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚’𝙨 𝙢𝙪𝙘𝙝 𝙞 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙖𝙨𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪, should anything happen to me. ’’
the whims of the ring are, at best, unknown. ignis was only the vessel of their worst.
for that question meme ( cuz i couldn't get it to load on mobile earlier ri p ) i wanna know ur take on percy's thoughts abt luke !!
q’s about the babs series || accepting
warning. spoilers below.only read if you don’t want the major spoilers rip
to start off, I think Luke deserved a whole lot more then he got. he has a pretty messed up backstory and I get that this doesn’t excuse any behavior ( which ??? canons a mess I’ll get into that ) but he? does redeem himself in the end and had tried multiple times to get out of the hole he dug. I think a large portion of why he did what he did and why he got stuck doing it is his own fallbacks. he asks someone for help but doesn’t fully reach out for it. he believes himself to be undeserving I guess? of people and makes himself out to be something he’s not, a projection, to keep people away.
in his defense he did face a lot of problems and people are shit and Percy did learn all this through canon so he is by no means unaware of Luke’s history. more under the cut.
Luke did not grow up in the ideal household. for starters, his mother. way back in a galaxy far far away following the storyline of Nico and Bianca, Hades cursed the oracle. but !!! May Castellan believed she could finally fix this whole thing even after Hermes warned her that it’s not going to work. lo and behold it doesn’t and May goes mad instead. so Luke had to grow up alone in a house with a mother who had gone mad when the oracles curse backfired. any kid would have been terrified and Luke is not some exception. I mean? his mom would go into random fits and start saying stuff about the future what was he to think? so he runs away. Percy learns all this through Iris message in bits and pieces he himself has to put together.
following that line, Luke is now on the run and eventually finds Thalia ( daughter of Zeus ) and later Annabeth ( daughter of Athena ) and the three live on the run fighting monsters for years. this is not some joke Luke had to grow up very quick as the eldest and learn to survive. Percy learns all this through, again, Iris message but also through visiting May Castellan’s house with Nico to retrace Luke’s steps before the whole curse of Achilles thing. Percy experiences first hand what Luke faced for years of his life. While Percy felt sad for May, he also readily acknowledges the strain this put on Luke. it really does effect how he sees him.
so onto Percy’s own experiences with Luke. first and utterly foremost, Luke was the first one to readily accept Percy at camp. it’s important here to realize that like ??? Percy didn’t have any people to look up to growing up outside his mom. the teachers at his schools only saw his transcripts ( which all point to him being a delinquent who doesn’t try when thats not who he is ) and at home he was canonically abused by Gabe. Percy didn’t have anyone. he didn’t have friends. again, his mom is important to him but? she’s literally all he had. then here comes this popular guy who takes time out of his day and treats Percy like an actual human being. Percy is not used to people treating him like this, its confusing but it makes him light up. like Luke? Percy honestly thought he believed in him. god I could talk about this for days because it’s so so important but I’ll stop here. this is why Luke’s betrayal really hurt him. it was more then some guy trying to kill him, this was his new role model and someone he looked so up to now out for his blood. could you ??? really blame him for being broke up about it.
following this Percy doesn’t know what to think anymore because Luke’s all of a sudden turned into this monster trying to kill him and destroy camp and Percy doesn’t get it, he doesn’t understand and it’s horrible. then all the stuff with the fleece happens and Thalia comes back and Percy thinks like, what if this was all some ploy? he’s just some replacement again, someone to be used. Luke, Thalia, and Annabeth had been a group — Gover had been theirs first — and it is very clear the plan was to trick CHB into bringing Thalia back. Annabeth and co. are now all happy to see each other again and they all keep worrying about Luke. It becomes very, very clear that Luke isn’t his, Luke isn’t someone he should worry about. Luke is their’s and Percy’s left aside. he’s bitter. so so bitter because Luke’s gone and Thalia’s back and Percy’s now lost even Annabeth because of it.
so shit happens, Luke holds the sky and gives it to Annabeth who gives it to Artemis who gives it to Percy. the fight and Percy thinks he killed Luke. like? Annabeth kept asking over and over and trying to save him and Percy had to be the one to tell her no. that hurts. he has to be the one to say “you can’t do that, it’s not an option” and by hurting Annabeth it makes the whole thing worse. he feels like shit all around. then come the labyrinth? and the stuff after? learning that Luke had asked Annabeth for help and learning that he wasn’t dead and the five thousand other things? brings it all back up. what is he to do? and now Kronos is walking around wearing Luke’s smile and Percy’s terrified.
well, with the help of Nico, what he does is follow in Luke’s footsteps. he learns about Luke’s past and learns about the hell Luke walked through and does it himself. Percy gets his mom’s blessing just as Luke did and he dives into the Styx the same as Luke did. they are two sides of the same coin and Percy is forever chasing behind. there are so many times throughout canon where Luke tells Percy to join him and honestly? I think Percy had all the incentive to. the only real thing holding him back was the fact Luke broke his trust and betrayed his friends. remember, Percy’s fatal flaw is personal loyalty. the fact that Luke did what he did? Percy can’t really comprehend it. so now both bear the curse of Achilles and Percy has to face the idea he’s probably going to die and in doing so he has to kill Luke to.
only, he doesn’t. and Luke saves the world and it’s Percy who gives him the chance and its Annabeth blade that does so. Percy’s reeling because look at all of this. Luke’s dead and Percy is the one hailed the Savior of Olympus. sure, he did his part, but in the end Luke was the hero who destroyed Kronos and Percy thinks of the tears on Annabeth’s face and the pain in his own heart as he makes it incredibly clear that Luke is a hero. Luke is not a villain. he straight up tells Hermes that thing’s could have been different, it didn’t matter what Hermes thought he was doing.
and I guess, in the end, Percy does forgive him. Percy does wish him the best in any future lives and he sincerely hopes Luke gets the chance this life didn’t grant him.
On his haunches the youth sits, hands folded just under his chin while bruised elbows rest upon tired knees. The training had been rough, Kakashi had been relentless in his lessons and yet this only fed the fire that burned within the Uchiha to succeed here and gain power over this jutsu. One more, surely he could do it one more time. Without shattering the rock this time.
“I’ll get it this time, just watch.” Defiant as always Sasuke rises to his feet and paces toward the aforementioned rock formation, hands rising to begin forming the proper signs to call upon lightning in all of it’s destructive glory.
“ i actually envy the size of your heart ” / renzou at mi :)
looking back at the boy who stood in front of her , how many times must his hopes be dashed ? any semblance of hope for living a normal life to be taken away , just for the sake of a selfish mission . renzou's eyes no longer filled with the same light that was associated with he , instead , an underlying dread only remained . oh , how mi kyong yearned for those days once more . but , her eyes reflect a similar story . how lives many lives must be taken , how much longer must Mi Kyong pull the trigger of the neverending events , will there finally be a light to all of this bloodshed .
a somber smile , an all too familar expression that even has Mi Kyong herself fooled that she's deserving of feeling any inkling of happiness after everything . no , such a luxury shouldn't be given with such little regard . ❛ my heart ? it's far too tainted with ink & death , to be praised . ❜ how long has it been since you've felt anything , but emptiness . regardless , you muster all the courage you can & keep moving forward ( why , isn't it all meaningless ? ). the very fact you can even remain standing is foolish beyond all comprehension , why not simply lay down your weapons & perish ? the answer was simple .
small arms wrap themselves around the boy's visibly shaking frame , placing her hand on his back right where his heart would be . ❛ this is proof , that despite everything you're still alive . no one can take such a prize from you , always wear it with pride & earnest . ❜ in full acceptance , that living a so - called normal life isn't possible any longer . but , that didn't mean renzou couldn't have such a chance , mi kyong would gladly give up her life to see such a wish come true .
