#haunting him

[flamesoffear]

[ilummoss]

Slightly feral about the way Reva, beyond her personal grudge, also comes into the story as the embodied rage of all those slain younglings.

Which creates an extra layer of tragedy to how Reva couldn’t even land a hit on him in their duel. Because there was nothing she or the other children could do protect themselves or their friends during Order 66.

With Reva we get something that has to some extent been missing until now. Reva gives a voice and face to all the younglings that fell victim to Order 66. The ones that didn’t make it. We’ve seen quite a few survivors like Cal Kestis, Ahsoka, Kanan Jarrus and Grogu. Reva on the other hand connects herself to those that died, those who were betrayed and didn’t have the luck to escape or be saved.

“What Jedi gave their life so that you might live?”

“We thought he was there to help us”

Because the one who was meant to save and protect them, was instead the one cutting them down.

Those last few moments before Vader stabs her just hammers it home, with the cuts to flashback, the vulnerable look on her face, his own words. Anakin Skywalker, murderer of children he had the duty to protect. Then, and now.

[pynkhues]

OK so I've been rewatching episodes because I miss them already and I've gone through your tag but I can't find it so if you made a post about it I'm sorry and I suck. But!: it was either really ballsy of Rio to take the money from Beth for her campaign or he was truly truly trying to prove to her how much he believed in her. What/why do you think he took it? Because she clearly told Nick about it and that seems like a pretty good way to drive her away from Rio to Nick (if he was afraid of losing her/thought he had already lost her).

(Ugh sorry this ask is jumbled as hell)

I haven't made a post, anon! But I agree. I actually think that was a case where Rio, uhhhhh, re-wrote history, haha.

I think in the moment of it he wasn't thinking about pushing Beth to realise her own capacity at all; rather, I think he was on edge from Nick getting closer to her, then felt the hit to his pride when Beth made the jab about him doing what Nick says, and I think he wanted two things. He wanted to be back in control, and he wanted a reaction out of her, and taking the money gave him both.

The way he circled back at the end of the episode to me felt like he regret his own impulsivity in that scene (and the way he gave in to the demands of his ego), and my read of it was returning the money was his regret, returning the furniture in the same beat was an apology, and taking a t-shirt was about course correcting from the original exchange. Appealing to Beth's need for validation in that sense too was about shifting the tone of what had happened altogether, and trying to move it away from a petty punishment and into the quasi teaching moment that Rio tried to make it instead.

And personally, I kind of love that for his character, haha. In a lot of ways, it felt like this incredible emphasis on the way that he knew her because he knew she'd respond to all of it, but he especially knew that she'd respond to him taking the money. Flipping it then feels too like an emphasis on Rio's character, as he's someone who regularly manipulates and massages context to create something that works best for him. He flipped the moment from putting her in her place to a moment that was instead about inviting her to take up space, because he wanted to walk back what he'd done.

Or, perhaps more accurately, he tried to twist his impulsive, petty and punishing choice into one instead that was patient, supportive and empowering to fix it.

I don't really think it worked, haha, but I do think Beth read the apology in it, despite herself, especially with the return of her furniture and the cash, and I also do think it was an apology that Rio meant.

This is a slight deviation too, but I actually think there's this sort of interesting area in here too where, in Rio's eyes, he's likely seeing Beth respond to Nick in the way she responded to him back in s1. She's wide-eyed and responsive, letting herself be guided to the areas where she's most of use to Nick, and while we know she's playing him, Rio doesn't at that point. I think the thought of losing her in the process of that, like you said, absolutely was a part of Rio's s4 arc (after all, if patterns are repeating, Nick has a clean slate with her in a way Rio can never have), but I also wonder if it partially was making Rio reflect on the way he handled Beth in s1 and used her in s2. In that sense, I can really see it compounding Rio's frustrations and complicated emotions in those later season eps.

It's an interesting area to percolate on!

[durativo]

Age 8, Vergil dies

Age 18, Vergil comes back, and then he dies.

Age 19/20, Vergil comes back, as Gilver, and then he dies.

Age 28, Vergil comes back, as Nelo Angelo, and then he dies.

Age 31, Dante kills Baul and Modeus, and goes to Vie de Marli to fight Argosax.

Age 35, Fortuna incident.... some small hope that Vergil’s son is at least alive? Ah, forget it, better to leave him alone.

Age 41, Vergil is back and I have to kill him.

Age 41, Vergil’s son beats the shit out of both of us and demands we not fight. I would like to properly thank you but I’m sorry, I just really want to be with my brother because I haven’t lived with him for 33 y e a r s.

[corpheliabriar-blog]

dara aerinsithe - mosin

i want to get all fucked up and tell you how i really feel because your vibrant blackness coco augury is so unreal when i die i want you to die too not trying to stay in this or any dimension without you spit on this planet without you i envy you because you can believe in things like i never could and not dose yourself into a coma over

[giomis]

Where can I find more art of grampa Joseph and ghost caesar