Ectober Week, Day 4: Darkness/Poison 

i’m so glad earth only has one moon, if there were more i’d have to pick a favorite and that sounds too emotionally taxing to even fathom

I honestly and truly believe all good AUs should be a little “”””ooc”””” in the sense that good characterisation involves understanding that changes a characters backstory and circumstances will have an effect on how they respond to the world around them

Good characterisation isn’t about creating a perfect 1:1 canon replica it’s about understanding why a character is different in your work and about grounding the changes you do deliberately choose to make in canon character traits

first day as a second century warlord i have my men tie branches to their horses’ tails to stir up dust and make it look like there’s a lot of us but i forget it just rained so there isn’t any dust and the enemy can clearly see there’s like twenty of us all spread out in a line

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Headcanon: Marc has claustrophobia.

It makes sense, given how Randall died, so Marc would definitely have PTSD from that which was definitely a contributor to his DID in the first place.

Naturally, ‘When danger is near, Steven Grant has no fear’ Steven isn’t claustrophobic and so he doesn’t at first realize that his ‘fearless’ host is in fact scared of small, dark spaces. Especially underground. Mainly caves. With water.

I also recon that this is a big reason why Marc didn’t insist on fronting in episode 4 until he absolutely had to, he was quite happy to let Steven do all the dark, underground tomb-raiding, something he probably carefully got out of doing when he had been out doing archeological stuff with Layla in the past.

(This is, if she doesn’t already know about his claustrophobia or know about Randall, which is definitely the kind of thing that would be on The List of Marc’s Secrets From Layla.)

But I feel like there could be a time when for whatever reason, Marc and Layla have to go into a cave, there could be a river in there too, it could keep getting louder as they go deeper in and the tunnels get narrower, and Marc is pushing down panic but it’s getting harder. Steven, from the reflection in the water, would figure it out pretty quickly and gently try to convince Marc to let him take the body, but Marc keeps insisting that he’s fine. He’s not, and Layla notices, she and Steven trying their hardest to talk Marc out of a panic attack.

Then Marc goes very still, eyes flickering, then lets out a deep breath and Steven turns to a confused and concerned Layla just to say ‘let’s keep going,’ then he walks off.

Later, Layla would find time to ask one of them about what happened back in the cave, and that could be how Layla finds out about Randall, Wendy, and how Marc created Steven in the first place.

Just an idea.

SPOILERS FROM CRITICAL ROLE EPISODE 141 THE FINALE

I know Anakin's desilusions of grandiosity are the talk of the town, but something something Padmé dehumanization of herself as a result of so much survivor trauma and so many close death calls. She's the senator with the highest murder attempts on her, she gets assesination attempts weekly and brushes them off, and she keeps chasing for justice to the point of collition, she sees people dying around her all the time but she keeps on living and living, at some point she's flirting with death as much as Anakin does in the battlefield. And something something, Anakin, ironically, in his extreme trauma and fear of death taking the people he loves, being the only one to say "You're a person, and your name is Padmé, not queen nor senator, and you're as fragile as any other live being" Something something the irony that person that most adored her being also the one who saw her as a person Something something Anakin commiting atrocities not for a goddess, no for a politician no for royalty, for a person. Something something how contrarian it is, that Anakin sees himself as a weapon, and Padmé's extreme guilt becoming what seems like superiority.

And particularly here in this comic something something how easily Anakin can walk through that storm Padme has created, how easily he can enter into her headspace and she doesn't flinch, doesn't blink, she isn't even surprised because she expects him and he's the only one that knows and can reach her like this, they're just having a conversation, something something.

Something.

I swear this was the end of me, so idc if i'm rambling, this comic kept me up awake for more than one day, because the power would go out every single time i sat to work on it, damnit

i need to sleep asap, and eat, eating first probably

Unbelievable. How dare he.

Here u go shwub

im so fucking pissed rn oh my god

at my work we have a little cafe that the staff sit in sometimes and i had a tasty little can of monster in there, near the door, for me to sip at when i had the chance to

then a man walks up

and oh how foolish i was

occasionally old men will come up to the cafe and grab any empty cans and bottles out of the bin outside or the bench near the door

god how stupid of me to leave it in such a vulnerable spot

this stupid man walks up

checks the stupid bins

and his stupid fucking eyes spot my stupid little can of monster

and he takes it

and he crushes it in his pathetic little hands

so i basically go "hey i wasnt done can i please have my last two sips of caffiene :)"

and this fucking fossilized evidence of true cruelty POURS OUT MY DRINK AND TAKES THE MOTHERFUCKING CAN

and he smiles at me like this: 😁😁

oh how i wanted to strangle him

i wanted to take his wretched bag of 10 cents and shove it down his stupid throat

i want to curse him like the internet guy did to the onion chip salsa lady

i will find a book

and i will curse this man with the words of hell

i will find a way to inflict the wrath of the gods upon him, and i will make him regret his actions for the rest of his days

this

this is the start of my motherfucking villain arc

WOAH

hey tumblr people! remember when i made that AvA animatic a year ago? i made another one. instead of taking 6 hours, this one took 5 DAYS. i'd love for you to leave some appreciation here or on youtube!!

(IT DOES HAVE SPOILERS FOR AVA 11.)

It's been 6 years, huh?