I Know. Somehow, I’ve Always Known.

Abyssina : I treat my body like a temple~

China: Open all hours and to the general public?

Skul: Visitors leave gifts?

Serafina: People made sacrifices in you?

Val: No maximum capacity?

I feel called out by your post about Tanith because I have a big family and the first thing I do when I encounter my assortment of people in the ~12 age range is compliment their collection of injuries and battle scars. Also lowkey the best insight into Dexter is the little musings about his history and the small displays of restraint and mercy he demonstrates while possessed by the Remnant. Which is still out there somewhere. Just so you know. Darquesse let it go and it could be anywhere now.

Well, there's a difference between having a scraped knee from playing (or other stuff normal kids do) and having huge ass bruises, because you had to jump from a rooftop in order to escape from a vampire...

Yess, Dexter is one of my favorite characters. Compared to Tanith he wasn't as cruel while being possessed, but I think that had a lot to do with the Remnant. Still, he left Val to die when Samuel attacked and he kidnapped Alice. The only mercy he showed was not killing her.

You mean the remnant is still out somewhere? I'm not sure, but I think Darquesse killed it after ripping it out of Dex.

She has a lot to say

so I know that you hc Nat as being the one to pickup Tony from Siberia, do you think there's any other reason beyond keeping the avengers together as to why she came back? Just found your fics and I'm loving what you do to their characters :)

omg i love that you guys send me asks like this! literally send them anytime (and i promise i'll get to everyone's prompts!)

so, the hc that nat saves tony is really just a vehicle for nat and tony being able to speak without not knowing whether rhodey will be okay hanging over their heads. the more i think about ironwidow peri and post cacw (and i have been thinking about it since 2016 haha) it's tony's emotional state that causes him to reject natasha so thoroughly in that scene. he's scared and furious, but more than that, it's not his best moment because he's indignant. that's why nat's comment about his ego hits. he's not in a good enough place to evaluate nat's actions objectively; he only sees the betrayal. and natasha is more vulnerable and hopeful than we've ever seen her too, causing her to take him at his words instead of digging deeper. (i'm midway through my im2/cacw ironwidow parallels meta, where i think i explain this better!)

but after 'he's my friend' 'so was i'? tony has spent all of his anger. i imagine he sits there on that cold floor, not angry, but numb. how did i get here? how did we get here? what do i have left? and if nat shows up there, he goes, well, i have natasha. i'm upset, but i have natasha. the avengers are ruined, but natasha is here - whatever her intentions are, she came.

i know it might seem like i'm focusing on tony a lot given your question is about natasha, but i think it's important because natasha knows her team. she knows that steve has come away from this upset and worried about the future, but he did not thoroughly break the way that tony did. i stick by my assessment that natasha's overarching goal is to keep the team together. they're really (other than yelena) all she has, and they give her a purpose. if natasha saw tony in siberia, her endgame would require her to adjust her plans to make sure he's okay, because tony stark and steve rogers are both indispensable to the avengers. steve has backup and moral support. tony has nothing, or at least he feels that way. so she stays because tony needs her. it's as simple as that.

in delicate, i suggest there are other reasons, because of course there are. one, natasha would want to have a say in the accords. two, her skillset aka pulling the strings is better served in nyc than in wakanda, where all she can really do is make sure the others are protected. for example, i imagine she likes ensuring that the un is not wise to steve's activities, whatever they may be. three, i think there's a possibility that she's more upset with steve than tony about the events of cacw - though i doubt she lets her personal feelings enter into the equation, and though i don't like "choosing sides" in the traditional way in cacw, i think she perceived steve's motives as more selfish than tony's.

all of this, however, is secondary to my earlier point. tony needed natasha. natasha goes where she is needed, because her whole psychosis is about being needed because she doesn't see how someone could want her for herself. and when natasha realizes she starts relying on tony as much as he relies on her? that tony sees beyond what she presents the world, that she wants him to (queue the 'you let them go' scene, where she's the most vulnerable we've seen her at that point imo)? that's what creates the perfect conditions for ironwidow.

You can now find a rework of my aftermath series on AO3 :)

carol & crystal

re-reading (well– listening, technically) has made me realise how SAD the plotline with the twins and beryl + fergus is ):

when i first read it, i just saw them all as comic relief and the death didnt hit me that hard, but now?? its honestly heartbreaking,, having seen the massive character development of the twins and then seeing the effect that carol’s death had on the rest of the family even though they didn’t know what had really happened etc etc is rlly sad

I made a Skulduggery Pleasant tier list! :D

If anyone’s interested in ranking some of the characters:

https://tiermaker.com/create/skulduggery-pleasant-characters-aruairi-langermann-493663

PS: sorry if the character names are a bit small

You´re right, him possessing Val would make kinda sense... I mean she´s the Child of the Faceless Ones and he claims to be a direct descendant from them Faceless Ones, so maybe they have some kind of connection? But with that logic he could also take Alice...

On the other hand, I always thought that Auger would die and Omen would take his place as the chosen one. It seemed like a typical Dirty Laundry plot twist. That could still be possible if Auger was possessed by the Unnamed. Then Omen could finally have a real hero arc and also it would create so much drama if he had to fight his brother. 

For the ask: (SoW Spoilers) What is your theory about the Unnamed? Do you think he´s really dead? I can´t help but feel like his arc has not finished yet. I mean there was this huge build up with his resurrection and him being like the most powerful sorcerer ever and then he just died. It seemed way too easy, but on the other hand at least his ( well Caisson´s) body has to be dead, since the obsidian blade vanished it. So I´m thinking, maybe before he died he possessed Auger? What do you think?

oh shit dude. i kinda skimmed over that whole part bc a) i was so upset about saracen and b) it kinda felt a bit rushed and confusing towards the end. you definitely raise an excellent point about his buildup, and i don’t think he’s dead either. he just can’t be, right? as for theories, yours is a good one, and maybe he could possess val, which might explain the whole alice vision.

Two sides of INTJ

INTJ: *wanders around city in the night while dreaming about living the life they read in books, lays on sofa with candles all around and theater music on, stares at a painting for ages because it reminds then of something important*

Also INTJ: *has their life in an excel sheet, knows when dreams are too crazy and scale then down into achievable format, and wants to make sense all the time*

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