THANK YOU THIS WAS SUCH A FUN READ TO WAKE UP TO IN THE MORNING

nothing better than the wrong capitalization of Sie

"Come to me, come to me. I killed them all."

Phil can be so damn chilling when he gets into intense PVP mode. I love that his teammates have the celebratory shouting covered for him.

(BTW, Phil later said that the reason he was able to two-shot Bad without enchants was because he stepped into Bad's hitbox, past his shield. Phil literally got inside his guard. That's the coolest anime shit; I'm so hoping that makes it into a badass animatic)

(Edit: I ended up doing some art of the aftermath)

New Housefire entry is up. Grab your hanky

the fact that felwinter tried so fucking hard to be a good person only for it to be stripped away from him by basically his father

sometimes I remember Felwinter and his sheer want for something better, for the world, for humanity and for himself too

he fought and he died and he made friends, as hard as it might have been for him, and he tried. so much. to be good, even when he went against his friends and compatriots and the Iron Decree because he believed he was doing something for the correct reasons

he tried to be somebody, and somebody good at that, so hard

and it was all taken away because of childish jealousy, the Iron Lords reduced to near nothing and all their work left behind

I apologize for my horrible sense of humor

There is one other thing to talk about in regards to the dungeon, and that's Osiris, who is on comms for us.

First of all, he was absolutely ready to go there himself. Ikora tells us as much.

She tells us that he's wants to go, but that she's afraid of him hurting himself so that it would be best if we went instead. Because he trusts us. This is enough to make me cry all day, but it's not all.

Once in there, he leads us through. One of his comments in the middle of the dungeon:

This is huge for him. He never does anything for himself. He never says that he needs help for something that sound even remotely selfish or that would be perceived as selfish. But here? He said "I need this." Not "we," not "Ikora," not "Guardians." He. Only he.

He needs to be able to convince others to trust him again. He needs to be able to convince HIMSELF to trust himself again. And the way he says it? He says it almost like he's ashamed of admitting that this is something he needs personally.

And that makes me wail and sob and throw things. Osiris, you are allowed to ask for help and to do things for yourself!!!!

But that's not all! At the end, he makes the following comments:

I will never be a normal person again after this. He and Saint had plans, back in the day, back before the Infinite Forest, that they would go explore the universe together. But not before they made the City safe for everyone else.

They took it upon themselves to do this. To make the City safe, first and foremost, before they can detach and go do things by themselves, for themselves. Securing everyone else took precedence. A job for a thousand years, or more, of making everyone else safe; Osiris and Saint sacrificed everything to make it so.

Only after they finish the most important job, only then are they allowed to leave and do things they want. And nobody would've faulted them if they just left at any point in time. Nobody would've even known. Nobody except them. They couldn't handle thinking selfishly and leaving everyone to struggle while they frollick around the universe.

To them, the first and most important thing is to make sure that everything else is done. Their personal lives and personal wishes and fantasies and dreams come second. That is why they ended up separated. That's why Osiris was exiled, that's why Saint died, that's why Osiris had to move time and space to bring him back, that's why Osiris messed with Hive gods, that's why he became Lightless and kidnapped and in a coma.

Because the most important imperative to them both is to save the world.

And now Osiris is coming to terms with mortality for the first time and he is thinking about what could've been. But even then, he STILL wants to put himself in danger to protect us all.

And I am simply crying super hard on the floor.

Additional cute info to help us from crying, after we returned and Ana wanted to run more missions for extra data, Osiris wanted to himself. AGAIN. She stops him (dungeon helmet lore):

I LOVE the lore about how everyone in the Tower apparently has scheduled watching Colonel time.

"No!" Ana dashes passed Osiris, "It's your night to watch the Colonel. I'll outsource a posse."

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please share it everywhere i want him to see this and what is yet to come

[🚧 WIP] Oh look, the baby birb has made a friend

…and he is a little shit

A moment of serenity