The tale of a tragedy!
S.I.U.'s gonna do a spin-off series of Tower of God and I'm like. Dying for too many things to be the focus of that side-series. I wanna see more of Zahard and his stupid fashion sense and his bitch fight (that I am convinced he's in) with Fate. I wanna see more about Rachel and Bam's past. (I am. Rereading and there's stuff I FORGOT because they were small details and ToG is 15ish years old AND YOU KNOW WHAT I DON'T THINK BAM SPENT ALL HIS TIME PRE-TOWER IN THE CAVE.) I want to see Arlene's ENTIRE FACE. I wanna see Arlene and Zahard interaction. I need to see how their relationship was and how it fucking spiraled so hard into tragedy and disaster that Arlene turns so hard on the group with V that they just build an army and start attacking their friends and their friends' descendants without blinking an eye from the sound of things. I need Arlene-V-Zahard interactions (and see if anyone in the fandom is gonna go 'teehee they've got two hands' andwrites something that gets me hooked). I wanna see how the people in the Red Garbage Dump managed to survive and built themselves up until they break out to take over the Tower. I wanna see the moment Zahard smashed himself into literal shards of who he was to make a version that fit whatever mold Fate graced the King of the Tower with (granted this isn't a confirmed fact but it feels highly possible to me right now). I wanna watch Arlene losing her fucking mind after her baby was murdered and see her drifting around the tower with a magically-preserved corpse and then after V goes through with suicide, hauling around reminders of him and getting worse and worse and worse. Maybe I want to see Zahard kill Arlene's baby and how that actually went down because Arlene's journal is not liable to reliable for facts that aren't shaded to make Zahard sound like an absolutely monstrous worst-of-the-worst and make out Arlene and V as 100% victims - I MEAN THEY WENT TO WAR WITH THEIR FORMER COMPANIONS AND PEOPLE CONDUCTING WAR DON'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THOSE GETTING CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE AND THEY'D HAVE KILLED A LOT OF THEIR EX-FRIENDS' DESCENDANTS IN THE MIDDLE OF IT ALL TOO. I want to see Team Sweet & Sour stuff they've been missing for 99.99999999% of S3. Did Karaka spend any time training Wangnan and Miseng? FUCKING PLEASE. I need to see if Miseng's turned into a tiny terror of the battlefield.
Its funny it seems V woke up bc of resentment but Rachel raised Bam on kindness and fear of loneliness instead of resentment. If Bam had had as much resentment as he did the crippling fear of being alone, V would’ve woken up so much earlier.
bold fuckin question coming from Khun
fairytale week day 5: free day
it’s a little hard to figure out from this, but i did rumpelstiltskin with arlene as the woman who became queen, bam as her son, and jahad as rumpelstiltskin himself
Zahard x Arlene is SO "strangles you with the red thread tying us together" core... Zahard remaining haunted by Arlene's prophecy for the rest of his life and Arlene devoting the rest of HER life to her all consuming hatred for Zahard and setting said prophecy of his downfall into motion.
Forget about her so far pretty generic romance with V, (often further distilled down into the blandest possible core of m/f ('he was a boy, she was a girl', 'wholesome') without even acknowledging the edges canon gives them (going to war together - the whole "battle couple" thing you could make out of that alone - , what about their underlying ideals? Edahn doesn't mention Arlene as particularly taken with Tower residents and even acting as frequent intermediary between Zahard and V, so how did they mesh in that regard? Having to watching it all crumble, slipping away as literal fugitives, the breakdown of their relationship potentially even prior but definitely following their sons murder, etc.)), Zahard and Arlene is where it's at. It's literally the dynamic that created the plot of Tower of God.