Ummmm, What's Going On Here???

Oh yeah one of my favourite parts, Hans tacking backshots and Henry having to carry this dramatic princess while he nags him the entire time (also when Hans complains how Henry left him all black and blue)

Night Raid ↳ Saving Hans' ass, literally

THEY CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS IN FRONT OF PEOPLE!!!!!

I'm glad to hear it.

I swear this face he makes...

i'm so sorry i had to

They invented the knight and damsel in distress trope

Leyendecker's Honeymoon: Hansry edition.

This group of losers i swear to christ...

No, no, no. I'm telling you, Dry Devil is a hell of a marksman! I'd bet my right arm that drunk as he is, he could still hit anything you can point at!

Season 1 act 1: Viktor stops Jayce from killing himself

Season 1 act 2: Jayce stops Viktor from killing himself

Season 2 act 1: Jayce brings Viktor back from the dead and breaks his promise to destroy the hexcore

Season 2 act 2: Jayce kills Viktor and keeps his promise after all

Mandatory mutt reblog

Good Boy!

"𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑑𝑢𝑡𝑦. 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤? 𝑀𝑎𝑦𝑏𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤."

like, okay, i'm sure this scene has been talked about and dissected to pieces already in this fandom but. BUT. i need to put my two cents in or i will explode.

so, your lord and best friend has just admitted to you that if you die, he will be so beside himself with grief that he might just die too.

the game then gives you THIS option in response.

and you, the player, know how video games work. you know this is the press x for romance button. you expect henry to admit his feelings—a culmination of all the hints he's dropped from the heart options we've chosen before—and kiss him as soon as the button's been pressed.

except henry doesn't kiss hans.

instead, henry places his hand on hans' hand. it's the first moment of physical contact between them in the whole scene...but it's not a kiss. it's gentle. it's intimate. it's tiptoeing the line between comforting a friend and something more...

...but henry leaves it at that. and he gets up and goes to leave.

and in that moment of panic. in that split second of 'this might be the last time i'll ever see you again, please don't go' — it's hans that kisses henry.

and it's henry who pushes hans away.

this is—for all intents and purposes—the opposite of what we, the player, chose.

and to add insult to injury, henry looks conflicted.

he looks SO conflicted that hans believes he's fucked up royally.

that he has completely tarnished their final moments together by acting on impulse—by giving into temptation and desperation and feelings he can't even put into his own words—and henry must be disgusted by him.

and hans believes this because he watches henry turn his back to him. refusing to look at him. and head for the door.

but henry stops before he opens it. and i keep thinking back to the heart option we chose.

the player is not making the choice for henry to kiss hans. we are not forcing his hand.

the player is reminding henry what he's been telling himself throughout the entire game.

don't run away, henry.

kiss him. kiss him back.

so henry does.