time to have evil sex with my villain wife
Do y'all think this scene meant anything? Or maybe it was just to describe what kind of guy V was like back then? It might be nothing, but I wonder if this meant anything. I probably don't see it if it did mean something though 🤣
Leviathan after getting absorbed by Bam: Where the fuck am I?!
All the souls, the thorns, Black March, Viole, and the Blue and Red Thryssa:
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.
LOOK AT WHAT V IS DOING TO POOR BAM ALREADY
GO AWAY V HE LOOKS SO AFRAID/DISGUSTED
the fun thing about Arlene is that I think she truly loved her child, that child just isn’t Baam, at the very least not to her.
i know they had their reasons but it really was fucked up of team shibisu to greet bam for the first time in years with “hey so you know that organization and identity that heavily traumatized you and treated you like an object that we freed you from? could you go back to doing that for us? pretty pretty please?”
Today I have this strong khunbam feels after reading a great fic.