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for those who are struggling with having and finding purpose: maybe, for now, your purpose is waking up in the morning and taking on the day ahead. maybe your purpose is continuing to live despite it all.

Concept: Sam finds out elves can die of sadness, gets very concerned, starts doing his best to make sure Mr Legolas is happy all the time just in case

imagine Nerf gun wars between Tanith and Valkyrie.

The struggle every night

I just want to keep reading but I should sleep 😴😱😴😱

Habt ihr schon alle das cineastische Meisterwerk der Bundesregierung genossen? Inklusive dramatischer Musik! (Gibt sogar einen zweiten Teil)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=krJfMyW87vU

headcanon: dexter is left-handed

Time for random Dexter headcanons:

- He totally uses his magic instead of a microwave whenever he wants to warm up something. It´s way faster and so much cooler.

- He doesn´t like to stay in one place for too long but if he has to, then he´d always chose his apartment in Dublin. It´s home. Whenever he goes there, he leaves lots of trinkets he found during his travels. By now the apartment looks like a tourist shop. The other dead men call him a clutterer but Val thinks it´s wicked. 

- There´s a framed picture of all the Dead Men together on his nightstand but whenever the others come over, he hides it because he knows that Saracen and Erskine would make fun of him.

- He's an overthinker. Sometimes everything gets just too much and it´s just too much pain. In those moments he really needs a drink - or rather one too many. 

- While Saracen is the womanizer, Dexter is known to seek comfort in someone else´s bed when he´s drunk. 

- All the overthinking causes insomnia. When things are really bad and he lays awake the whole night, he´ll watch documentaries on YouTube. That´s why he´s an expert on the most random and most useless subjects.

- Cats just love him. Even the really grumpy ones. He´s like a magnet for them.

- He heard about what went down between Ghastly and Tanith from Erskine but didn´t realize how much it hurt Ghastly until he talked to him at the Requiem Ball. He never forgave himself for not checking up on his friend sooner. 

- Out of all the dead men he was closest to Saracen but Erskine was a close second. That´s why his betrayal hit him especially hard. 

- Most of the time he prefers to listen and doesn´t talk too much unless he has to say something important. That´s why he´s the go-to person for the other dead men if they need to talk about something. 

Kes: Val you need to sleep it’s been four days.

Valkyrie: *Drinking her fourth coffee* Sleep is for the straight.

I like the new SP title. I'm not disappointed because it's not a cool reference to a poem or whatever. It reminded me of Bon Jovi, but also Dead or Alive are a good band?

If you're chill about SP/ not being ridiculous about the whole thing and hating on every little thing Derek Landy says or does feel free to message to talk about it if you want.

Everything in Harry Potter is the same except he has a cool aunt like Marisa Tomei’s rendition of Aunt May in Spider-Man.

Tanith: I just thought he needed to listen to common sense and reasonable discourse.

Kenspeckle: Please tell me those aren’t the names of your fists.

Tanith: My feet. I’m actually more of a kicker.

Wanted SP Baddies

I had the faceless discord decide which characters to draw for the bottom row since I’m indecisive as ever, and full credit to @scrubblet for the ‘being too handsome’ charge for Billy-Ray bc I loved that idea lmao

Top: Baron Vengeous, Nefarian Serpine, Mevolent Bottom: Billy-Ray Sanguine, Tanith Low, Spring-heeled Jack

There are so many people in this fandom who just hate Valkyrie or think she´s annoying, but honestly I love her character. 

She´s so incredibly flawed. She´s arrogant and rude. She often doesn´t think about collateral damage and thinks the end justifies the means, because that´s what she learned from Skulduggery. All those things make her a round and more dimensional character. I don´t wanna read about someone perfect. perfect is boring. I wanna read about someone who fucks up, someone who has bad character traits. Valkyrie does. She fucks up, she sometimes is a shitty person, but she always gets up again and tries her best.

In spite of her many flaws, she doesn´t stop trying to be a better person. Unlike Skulduggery she is able to get over herself and to admit that her (past) behavior is often questionable. Even though fate dealt her a shitty hand with the whole being Darquesse thing, she still tries her best. Obviously, she didn´t handle the situation very well back in phase 1, but she still basically was a kid back then. A very frightened kid who was told by Skulduggery again and again not to tell anyone else because they would find a solution... 

So yeah, Skulduggery and everything in phase 1 fucked Valkyrie up, but at the end of the day she at least tries to be a good person and i respect her for that. Also, can we all just take a moment to appreciate how fucking much she loves her family and Xena?

Love me some magical Russian assassin

sometimes i just want to laugh at how absurd everything is. like, jeff bezos has enough money to literally end the war in yemen. he could literally end it. nearly any celebrity in the world has the money to fix the flint water crisis. like there is a handful of rich people who, if they just put their money where their fucking mouths were, could solve so many problems. but they dont!!! they just buy another house, or a car, or a company where they don’t pay their workers fair wages so they can get richer. it’s just!!!!!!! sometimes i want to laugh bc it’s so absurd and this is why we say eat the rich. 

SP CHARACTER STUDY 4/? - VALKYRIE CAIN

for one so young, she already carries a lifetime of regrets

I will die on this hill

Text post you’d make: I’ve decided that Seb*stian T*o eats strictly cardboard because at least cannibalism will be something interesting about his character. Yes this is a fact. No I don’t take constructive criticism.

god DAMN, there is no way in hell I could ever come up with something like that but I am nonetheless flattered

“The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we think we are is at the core of our being. Are you a decent girl with the potential to someday become an evil monster, or are you an evil monster that thinks it’s a decent girl?“ "Wouldn’t I know which one I was?” “Good God, no. The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.”

— Death Bringer

SP CHARACTER STUDY 2/? - CHINA SORROWS

She claims that she stands for order. It is a lie - she stands for a world that she remains in control of

Why the heck did I give this post a like?? This is awful and making me really sad :( 

Just thinking about how Dexter is completely alone and everyone he loves is dead and knowing Landy he's probably going to die soon and if he does it'll probably be for a pointless reason

I like to imagine two things: 

- Dexter grabbed Valkyrie and danced with her when she was so overly bored on their long walk in book #8 to cheer her up and it totally worked even though she tried half-heartedly to free herself and NOT to laugh 

- the Dead Men spending a day at the beach which would be the biggest disaster including Dexter chasing a screeching Saracen into the water and Valkyrie building a sandcastle with Ghastly i’m needy of fluff and harmony please

China Sorrows x Skulduggery Pleasant aesthetic?

there are times when she’s selfish enough to admit to herself that she is glad that this man is the one who came back from the war

not the one who kissed her sweetly, with soft touches and warm hands, fingers brushing bare skin

this man full of quiet rage, of death, unsettles most, but not her

then again, she notices the whispers and frightened looks that follow her every move

perhaps there is a bond formed between those who have walked into hell with one’s eyes open

like always, tap for better quality

It is so nice to know that none of the people I know irl know of this blog

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.

I fully agree with 2&3, but as a fanfic writer i actually find Dexter interesting to write and read about because we don't know a lot about him.

In the books he's witty and often seems to be untroubled by traumatic experiences but it's also hinted that there's a lot of depth to his character. So, it's really interesting to kinda fill in the gaps that Landy leaves.

I guess, that means that I'm more interested in the idea of him as a character than his actual character in the books because there's really not a lot about him there... (it´s the same with Saracen, Aurora and the Monsterhunters)

The few scenes where we can catch a glimpse at his character are really interesting. Take TM7 for example: He could have told Skulduggery about the god killers and let him deal with them but instead he assembled a team and took care of it himself. If you combine that with him constantly seeking out adventures all over the world, it shows that he needs to be constantly fighting for what he believes is right - even after the war is over. The other dead men (except for Skulduggery) all settled down but not him. Skulduggery fights because of his guilt and his need for revenge. So what about Dexter? There must be something in his past that drives him. Maybe war is all he´s ever known, so he doesn´t know who he is or what to do after it ended or maybe there´s something dark in his past, too. We don´t know, but that makes him interesting. 

That´s where my personal headcanon sets in: His father fought against Mevolent. While he was away, his mother raised him and his siblings, but due to the high child mortality rate he´s the only one who made it past the age of ten. His siblings all died. Anyway, while his father was fighting, his mother got killed by the mortals in their village for being a witch. Dexter had to watch helplessly. It made him so angry that he lost his way for a couple of years. He ran away, until he was taken in by a family that supported Mevolent. They raised him, so he took on their beliefs. Only several years later when he saw a whole village of mortals get slaughtered, he remembered how his biological parents raised him. He ran away again. This time in search of the resistance, but when he finally found it, he had to find out that his father had recently died in battle. That´s when the guilt and the self loathing began. He joined the suicide mission with the other dead men as a way to punish himself. Obviously, it didn´t work out. Not that time and not after. Then the war was over and he still felt like he needed to make up for his mistakes. That´s why he takes on missions by the sanctuaries all over the world, why he helps wherever he can. Sometimes that´s enough, sometimes it isn´t. It´s always been this way, but know he doesn´t have the other dead men to talk to anymore. They all drifted apart after the end of the war. So he has to find other, less healthy coping mechanisms. They don´t work, but he puts on a brave face and laughs it off. Then the war between the sanctuaries starts. He would never admit it, but fighting alongside his brothers again is the best thing that could have happened. Until they die, one after another. First Ghastly and Anton. Then Ravel. Even though he´s a traitor it still hurts. He gets possessed by a remnant. Just one more thing to feel guilty about. It doesn´t matter, he can handle it. But then Saracen dies. His best friend for centuries dies and he can´t handle it anymore. It´s all too much. He doesn´t want to fight anymore. Skulduggery is the only one who´s left but he only ever cares about Valkyrie nowadays. Tanith tries to cheer him up. She really really tries. It doesn´t work. Saracens death is what finally broke him.

unpopular sp opinions?

1- If Dexter wasn’t hot, people wouldn’t find him nearly as interesting - not his fault, but the lack of actual characterisation of any characters after book 7, with everyone becoming the same generic sorcerer, is pretty awful.

2- Tanith and Ghastly never even went on a date and y’all made out that they were soulmates -_- Like feel free to ship them but I feel like after Ghastly’s death everyone was like oh my god how is Tanith ever gonna get over the death of a man who she only spent four books with, when surely we should be focusing on the dead men who’d lost their best friend of FOUR CENTURIES

3- Militsia + Val are actually cute together and I quite like the reality check she’s giving Val

good to know, that makes me wanna travel to Scotland even more XD

corrival student: oi, cunt! listen here ya fanny

militsa gnosis, scottish and considering that to be a polite way of greeting someone: yes?

This!

When you think about how Val and Tanith first met, their relationship is really fucked up. Back then Val was twelve and had huge bruises all over her body (because of a fucking tree but still!). Instead of being concerned Tanith complimented her for it. Like, how fucked up is that??? Next thing we know, Ghastly and Tanith take Valkyrie along to Serpine´s castle, even though they thought they were gonna get caught or killed. 

To make things worse Melissa and Desmond have no idea about any of this. Sure, they think their daughter is kind of an outcast who spends to much time alone in her room but they also think she is safe and happy and stable. It´s a fucking miracle they didn´t literally kill Skulduggery when they found out what he put their daughter through...

So yeah, Tanith definitely should have protected Val from all that shit because no one else could have. Skulduggery didn´t see the problem, her parents didn´t know, China didn´t care, Ghastly was too close to Skulduggery and saw that Val was good for him and Kenspeckle didn´t have the influence. It´s really sad that Tanith sees Val as her little sister and still didn´t protect her. They could have still trained and everything but she shouldn´t have fought criminals at twelve.

y’all know i used to love tanith, but recently my feelings about her have become kind of complicated.

she was deeply traumatised as a kid when she was abandoned by her parents to become an assassin and was forced to kill someone at the ripe old age of 13.

on one hand, maybe this would make her think that valkyrie’s got it pretty good in comparison to what she went through.

but on the other hand, you would think that this might make her feel more protective of valkyrie and realise that skulduggery effectively training her to be an emotionally stunted ex-mass murderer (exactly like him) is more than a little bit fucked up.

it bothers me that she was so completely fine with a twelve year old being endangered by a man who is so clearly insane and dangerous, and has no sense of responsibility for her wellbeing.

ghastly, to his credit, tried a little bit in the beginning to stop skulduggery dragging her into this, but was very easily persuaded. ghastly had known skulduggery for hundreds of years, and knew more than most about all the heinous things he’s done, before, during and after the war. unless ghastly’s also a sociopath, there is no way he’d be okay with this then again, he knows skulduggery and yet still chooses to be friends with him, so idk.

of course china didn’t really care, but the way she’s written, especially in the beginning, makes it clear that she was never going to. frankly, i actually find it a little out of character that young valkyrie gains her respect so quickly, considering how little she had for almost everyone else. that said, valkyrie was trained from very early on that acting exactly like skulduggery was the only way to get his approval so he would keep teaching her magic, and skulduggery is one of the few people china does respect.

idk where i’m going with this but i guess it just makes me really sad that all the adults in her life completely failed her (minus kenspeckle, who tried, but wasn’t in a position where he could do anything about it and then DIED).

corrival student: oi, cunt! listen here ya fanny

militsa gnosis, scottish and considering that to be a polite way of greeting someone: yes?

new powers who dis