YOU'RE SO TRUE FOR THIS
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im not sorry this is how the fandom should be
I’m guessing I’m gonna get hate for the meme but whatever It’s worth it
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Remus: Did you have to stab him?
Sirius: You weren't there. You didn't hear what he said to me.
Remus: What did he say?
Sirius: "What are you going to do, stab me?"
Remus:
Lily:
The rest of the Gryffindors:
James: (nodding) That's fair.
you are cassandra. in the middle of being possessed by the spirit of your vengeful, undead domain and feeling the world split apart with the festering carcass of your ex-lover being restored to grandeur only so she can be devoured completely, someone familiar approaches from the deck of a flying ship in active battle. your vision is warped, you're barely conscious, you don't know how it's possible that you're still alive, the figure blurs further and splits in two. one calls out to you, the same voice that has been reaching out for you all along, the same voice that called out your name the very first time and brought you to life. you ignore her. the other - clothes a little tighter, some subtle makeup, a pair of bicycle shorts patterned with a flag not known to this world. she opens her mouth - her teeth are horrible. 'blimey', she says, and you feel again. you feel something that crushes against your bones and shocks still your rotten heart. something cuts itself loose from your chest and escapes with a virulent tear of pain through your throat. lightning, bright and sharp, gushes from your screaming maw to its true purpose, and then she's gone. it's over. 'blimey', it whispers into the ethos, a memory as much as a promise to the tragedy of a dying star that may die forever. but you feel something else, you remember something or perhaps you are only now recognising it that nothing can be done. something else that lived in that void of space, you think. nothing more than a collection of cells yet, and still the weight pushes you to your knees. two lines on a stick, you reason, perhaps not even a choice to be made at all. surely not a life to be lived, you tell yourself as the memory of possibility dissolves and the void envelops the very space that baby might have occupied.
'blimey', the whispers consume what's left of your aching heart. 'blimey', you echo.
all of them fall into the best friends to lovers trope too. Mashima is that a pattern??? dammit!
Class training also dissipates over the years like regular skills though so even though they can cast ninth-level spells that can alter reality, they'd have to go back through their 2000-year-old dusty spellbook and reread the whole thing. Their handwriting's completely different and there are a bunch of shorthand notes like 'u know how to do this lol imma skip this part' and 'just ask Thelementhressiel to do this one for u lmao, not worth the hassle' when Thelementhressiel perished in battle three hundred moons ago.
They get distracted going back through all their old doodles and giggling at the nostalgia and inside jokes from the time until they get reminded of that one song they loved so much that they later learned to play on the lute and suddenly all of their problems can actually be solved by them playing not that song but the one that they can actually remember the basic melody of through muscle memory. They keep playing the first two lines over and over because when they tried to play the whole song it took them like twenty seconds between chords to remember what to play, but they keep insisting to their current party that they were an excellent bard in their day-
honestly elves SHOULD be over represented in adventurer groups. like, what, you're gonna live 700 hundred years and NOT do an adventure? not even once? not even on accident?
i know this is likely an unpopular opinion since a lot of this fandom has religious trauma, but i would kill for some redemption for helio or some positive helioic representation. it'd be just good, complex worldbuilding if it were solely fiction, but since it's so referential to christianity that ally literally says jesus instead of helio on several occasions i think they either have to really differentiate it or maybe add some complexity to the current 'all 'helioics' are bigots, your faith is evil' angle. because in fiction you can do that, but real religions aren't that simple. im not religious myself, but there have been times where i've been in really bad situations and the most welcoming, caring people are pastors. there is a good side to christianity, and in freshman year kristen wasn't a bad person. she believed in all the good things those pastors did, she helped victims of human trafficking, she fought against her family's racism even before she met her friends. her family was horrible and she was indoctrinated into a cult with the harvestmen, but her faith wasn't bad. religious trauma is not inherent to religion, it's abuse that people use religion to justify.
since s1 i have desperately wanted a good character to be introduced who worships helio like kristen did in freshman year with love and acceptance because that's who they believe helio is, and i don't want them to be proven wrong. tracker didn't give up on galicaea after kristen told her what she was like in the astral plane and worked to change her worship, and i think it would be really interesting to see someone like buddy go tracker's direction with helio instead of just rehashing kristen's character arc.
Remember when you used to be a rascal
clinging till i'm getting sentimental
I think all the supernatural elements of Yellowjackets can actually be explained as the spirits of the dead interfering either to help or punish.
The bear is Laura Lee taking care of her friends. The snow on Jackie's body is her allowing herself to be consumed if it means her friends survive. Javi survived on his own for so long because his dad was looking out for him.
The things that aren't directly linked to characters we know could equally be other spirits that died in the wilderness - the others that died in the plane crash, the man in the cabin, the owners of the survival equipment Ben found.