#underrated relationship

[redsray]

Imagine Duke, freshly a ward of Bruce Wayne and recently moved into the manor, doing the normal thing all new batkids do and forgetting they’re, by all means, really rich.

So he’s constantly asking his siblings to buy things for him and then offering to pay them back on instinct—or denying when he doesn’t have ‘enough money’ to pay them back.

It happens most often with Tim, because Tim is always offering to buy no matter what. Duke’s also the closest in age to Tim, so he’s the nearest older sibling he’s got.

Duke: I’m hungry.

Tim: We can go get pizza or something?

Duke: Can’t I’m broke.

Tim: …?

Tim, shrugging: I’ll pay.

Duke: Hell yeah!

Tim, grinning: You do know you’re also rich, Duke?

Duke:

Duke: Right.

Tim: Ughhh we’re out of Cola—that’s it, I’m going to the store, you want anything, Duke?

Duke: Uhhh maybe something small, I don’t have money to pay you back.

Tim: Duke…

Duke: …Yeah?

Tim:

Tim, sighing: You don’t have to. What do you want?

Duke, calling Tim: Hey Tim I’m really sorry to ask this of you but could you please order something for me online it’s pretty expensive but—

Tim: What is it?

Duke: What?

Tim: The thingy-majig you want ordered. What is it?

Duke, embarrassed: It’s a new limited edition card that just came out and it’ll sell really quickly and I’m on patrol right now so—

Tim: ‘Kay, done.

Duke: —and I’ll owe you one—what.

Tim: Done. I bought it.

Duke: I didn’t even tell you the card name yet.

Tim: I used context clues and your recent search history.

Duke: …

Tim: You don’t owe me anything anyway, Duke. We’re the sons of a billionaire.

Duke: Thanks anyway.

Tim: No problem.

Tim, coming into the manor with a brand new phone: Hey, Duke.

Duke: Hey! Whose is that?

Tim, handing him the phone: Yours.

Duke: …?

Tim: You said your phone broke last week.

Duke: Tim, this might be more expensive than all my past phones combined.

Tim, shrugging: Just means you’ve got an upgrade.

Duke: Tim. I can’t afford this.

Tim: Good thing I already bought it, then. It’s yours, Dayshift.

Duke: Thanks, Tim.

[zukostolemyhonor]

no one talks about the relationship between john and bonnie, it makes me sad because it's probably one of the best written relationships in all rdr1 (except maybe the marston family as a whole), and bonnie is like the one true friend john has, she never tries to manipulate him to do bad things, never betrays him or leaves him in dangerous/bad situations. she truly cares for him, and I know she has a crush on john, but even before that she saves him because she's a decent person and doesn't want to leave a man to die even if he's a criminal, and i think there's genuine friendship on both parts. it's telling how undead nightmare is supposed to be a dream john has, and in the dream bonnie rushes to hug him. I don't mean it in a romantic way, but it's so nice to see someone show affection to john through physical touch. he probably never had that type of affection from a person that wasn't abigail (so never from a friend), I just wish it was a real moment between them. tbh their friendship, and bonnie's herself are so underrated, and I don't understand why. RDR fandom what are you sleeping on!!!

[georgeharrisonsmiling]

This Is Love

[mcadoo-dledoo]

i have a lot of thoughts about roy seeing himself in isaac hence the captaincy, hence the talk. but more than that he sees isaac as he probably once was - gruff exterior hiding a tender heart yes but not as jaded. not yet. so he tries his best to make sure isaac wont make the same mistakes he did, so when hes roys age and stage he might still hide his tender heart behind that gruffness...but hopefully isaac's will have less self inflicted wounds than roys.

[creelcarlbrun]

Butler, half eviscerated, looking at the gigantic bull troll and deciding to put on a SUIT OF ARMOR and square back up because the thing hurt his little sister IS the best moment in the first Artemis Fowl book. Like that is what sibling loyalty is

Also him trying to trash talk the Troll is. *chefs kiss*

[larsisfrommars]

Caleb & Fjord: Secretly One of The BEST Relationships in Campaign 2

I’m not a widofjord shipper and I will probably never be.

But-

This relationship was SO underrated and I love it so so much and I think it has more moments than most people think.

I can’t stop thinking about:

How insanely supportive Caleb is of Fjord in particular when they were dealing with Uka’toa. Even when the others were starting to grow a bit concerned. Like of course Caleb supported everyone, but Fjord’s path was the strangest, morally dubious, and riskiest of them all.

Caleb’s reaction when Fjord lost his powers. Honestly I can think of few stronger images of intense platonic love both at the table and in-game than the pantomime of Caleb/Liam putting the Glove of Blasting on Travis/Fjord’s hand. It was so intimate and brotherly and just, sopping with love. It made me feel things I wasn’t expecting (No Wonder Travis got all teary-eyed during that scene!).

How Fjord almost never pries about other people’s pasts but, in seeing a kindred spirit, pushed a little harder to figure Caleb out than he had with others.

But wait there’s more!

“Let’s make this work” “we’ll make it work.” some of their first words to each other after they became an “official” group.

Caleb catching and calling out Fjord for faking his voice, and Fjord making note of how Caleb was the first to figure it out, aside from Jester who already knew.

The green beans and destiny conversation with the Wildbrothers and Caleb.

Shedding blood onto Deschilla’s sacrificial pyre “just to see what happens”

“Our pasts are always with us.” When Fjord confides in the others about being bullied as a kid.

Fjord being super ready to throw down with Trent from the get go (especially, after finding out what happened to Caleb) and protecting Caleb from Eadwulf in that final confrontation.

How many times they’ve saved each other in super clutch “is he at one hit point?” moves. (Firewall when Fjord was almost slaughtered by brainwashed Yasha, getting Caleb the fuck out of dodge during the Avantika fight, Caleb counter spelling the dimension door when the Scion was trying to take Fjord’s body away, Fjord counterspelling Trent’s dimension door to escape, and so on)

There is SO 👏🏻 MUCH 👏🏻 STUFF! 👏🏻

I think Fjord and Caleb’s relationships to each other are as important as Fjord’s relationships with Jester and Caduceus, and Caleb’s relationships with Veth and Beau. The key things that separate their relationship from those important ones is that they understand each other in ways those relationships can’t provide for either of them. Not from any lack of love or desire to understand, it’s just that Fjord and Caleb are SO similar.

They both have pasts they’d much rather forget. They both have self loathing issues, they both struggle with selfish ambition. They both crave and lost/lacked parental love, they were both abused by powers much greater than themselves. They both inspire and lead the group with their unique leadership qualities, and they’re both the most prepared (aside from Beau) to make really tough moral decisions. Hell, they’ve both got the whole in-love-with-Jester-but-unwilling-to-tell-her Thing. I’d say Fjord beat him to the punch but Caleb wasn’t gonna try in the first place (besides, I think he’ll be happier w/ Essek but that’s a whole other topic).

I think they have the strongest and quietest bond for it, because they are acutely aware of each other’s similarities. I can’t imagine that, had they been in each other’s shoes in each other’s pasts, they would’ve done much differently. I love watching them carefully dance around their darker natures as to not feed into each other like what happened in Deschilla’s Lair. I love watching them confide in each other and heal in parallel ways. I love watching them.

People love talking about how Essek/Caleb are “recognition of the self in the other” but I think, in a more platonic and subtle way, Fjord and Caleb fit the bill too. I love their dynamic for that.

[dramagenes]

its very important to me to know whether or not yijin and his sunbae still have their cute friendship in the present. 

[costis]

how did I forget that relius canonically tells irene about all his relationship drama djzjwekfjjswkjfkdjwnfjcsjjr