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"Surprise! It's your sister!"
I'm truly obsessed with Azune's "I'm not a thing I'm not a thing I'm not a thing I'm a person I'm a person"
I talked about this in the tags of a different post the other day but the order got all fucked up somehow (i was using quotation marks but i thought they fixed that? whatever. tumblr.) and I need to get my thoughts out properly because that line is haunting me. the desperation with which he says it!!! the way luis physically grabbed at taliesin's arm!!!
like. "hey bolaire remember when i asked you if you were a thing or a person and you said you were a thing? and then i asked if you could be both and you said no? well later i went home and thought about that and realized i had maybe been made into a thing and wasn't really a person anymore and i was starting to come to terms with that or i thought i was but i was WRONG!!!! oh god i was so wrong!!!! I am a person!!! I'm a person and it's scary!!! I'm a person and I don't know what to do about it but I know it's important!!! I'm a person and I have been all this time and I didn't realize!!! I'm a person and I miiight go kill that guy oh god oh god oh god. I'm a person and I need you to know this right now because maybe you can help me, maybe you can stop me from doing something stupid, but also because maybe you can understand me, because I thought I was like you but I'm not (but maybe you're like me????)"
"anyway i hope you got all that because I'm having a mid-battle panic attack and also i only have 6 seconds so I'm certainly not gonna articulate it"
Mayali come baaaaaack :(
This took a hot second to make, but I really enjoyed this combat and the whole Schemer's Arc in general! Very glad the hounds are safe :,D ALSO! I don't like asking for this sort of thing, but I'm trying to get onto VGen to start doing commissions, so any like or comment is greatly appreciated! <3
Yanessa Halovar probably has insane organisational skills, and that makes her one of the scariest and most dangerous people in Araman.
Sure, the Tachonis have the spooky goth vibes, but the Halovars? They have competence and a way to run most of their schemes more or less in plain sight. They’re holy people, they can pretty much do whatever and if you move against them, hmm, maybe you’re just biased becasue they’re religious and this is a world in which the gods have been killed. And now that Yanessa has had her very public miracle… yeah the Creed is winning, even though King Gus had survived.
Killing Gus might not even have been the top priority, just a bonus and a way to explain the whole setup for the Photarch’s big Messiah moment: the Argosians were present, the assasins had clearly come specifically for the Timmony delegation, they had a plan to incapacitate the Hounds in play, so Gus must be the target. Her Radiance was but an innocent victim whose Light is so bright and shiny and radiant that it transcends death (bonus points if while she was ‘dead’ she’d had a revelation and now whatever she does simply cannot be scheming and plotting because it’s divine providence, you blasphemers, how dare you suspect a holy woman, she just came back from the dead!!!). In their ideal scenario, without the Schemers’ intervening, Filoneus was probably going to enter the room dramatically at some point, dispose of the assasins, maybe let some of the more useful ones ‘get away’, and maybe even save King Gus so that he’d effectively be indebted to the Creed, so that any action Timmony takes against their presence and influence would be a bad look, because why would King Gus be hostile to the good people who had saved him? Must be a no-good really bad tyrant.
Had Gus died, it would have effectively given the Creed free reign over Timmony, plus they could have also played it off as the Light protecting those who embrace it (with a strong implication that King Augustus was a very bad not good tyrant person who had strayed too far away from its saving power and that’s why he’s dead and the Photarch is not. The Light actualy saves, you guys, please join our Creed, you don’t wanna end up like King Gus, now do you). But his death isn’t necessary, because the point is an effective show of the Light’s power and awesomeness. They can and will do whatever they are doing in Timmony. Sure, would be nice to have the king’s support, and if he converted, well, now that’d just be great, but either way. King Gus’s hands are kind of tied on this one: if he decides to oppose the Creed (and Halovar interests) openly at any point, he’d be playing into their hands and giving more weight to the accusations of tyranny, which gives the Halovars an opening and an excuse to stage a coup and get rid of him while framing the whole thing as the will of the people.
The way this plan had been set up, the Halovars and the Creed win no matter what. They set a goal, and they achieved it, nice and simple.
It feels appropriate that last night's episode ended, not with Brennan saying 'is it thursday yet', but with Taliesin saying 'I hate everything.'
casting See Invisibility by invoking a memory of his father figure admonishing him to open his eyes? That moment is going to be SO COOL when this campaign eventually gets animated!
Oh god, oh god, oh god.
As soon as Brennan said “sunset eyes” I was like “HOW FUCKING DARE YOU SIR”
HOW DARE YOU TORTURE MY SWEET BABY AZUNE LIKE THAT
Holy effing eff.
Murray Mag‘Nesson really did all of that in that venezian carnevallian kentucky derby ball gown of hers