All them peeps in high school wondering how I could find Freddy Krueger so attractive growing up....welcome to the new normal.

I'd like to know what happened to fandoms, where it all went wrong that now if you don't ship/like the canon couple or like the most popular ship. You're ostracized. You're found for every reason why it's wrong.

The whole point of shipping is to smoosh two people together for FUN.

There's no subtext, there's no ulterior motives.

ITS JUST FUCKING FUN.

Yall really out here hating some random people on the internet for liking a ship. Look at yourself? Ranting and raving about how these people must be terrible cuz they like so and so together. Get offline, please, I beg you. You are the terrible person for doin an sayin the stuff you do.

Thinking about how nothing will ever beat the feeling of seeing the Phantom of the Opera live for the first time

Reblog if you’re over 20 and still read/write fan fiction.

I’m curious!

I will probably read fanfiction until the day I die

It's 2022 and I have once again cycled back to the Evil Within as a hyperfixation, what is up my fellow Ruben Victoriano simps? How are we feeling in this very empty fandom?

Here I am, still waiting for the evil within 3 to come out and finally find out what happened to Ruben.

Me: I’m gonna watch some slasher movies tonight . You know for the plot

The “plot” being the stabby men who I’m in love with

Our slasherfuckers’ brains are just rewired. That scary movie moment where the killer appears? To us that’s like the hallway locker scene where the cute guy appears in a high school romance movie.

so true 😭😭

my reaction to this scene:

Yep, that was me

you know what I do when I don’t like a character?

you know what I don’t do when I don’t like a character?

it’s….it’s a remarkably simple concept

it makes life a whole lot nicer

“why do you like this character you do know that if they existed they’d just try to kill you right” actually no they’d fall madly in love with me

Silco thought he could do literally anything to achieve power, and use that power to make Zaun a sovereign nation. But, the moment Jinx tackled him in a hug and basically asked him to care for her, he lost.

We see him look shocked, and then look up at Vander. Likely, he was empathizing with Powder saying "she is not my sister" and applying it to Vander's betrayal and his own feelings about him after. He chose to accept this child who was like him and decided to give her what he had needed when he was in her shoes. "We will show them all" being his promise; that they both will abandon fear and become strong enough to achieve their dreams.

We see it in Jinx's eye when she looks up from his arm, determination to prove that she is better than Milo said, that she can be strong, she wants to be useful and "ready" so no one will leave her behind like Vi did.

Yet, she also has the weight of her entire murdered family. She internalized from Vi's words and abandonment that she truly is a jinx, and therefore she must be bad. Which I think is why she allies with Silco and his gang, because she basically already worked for him by killing Milo and Claggor, and preventing Vander's successful escape. They all would have left and been fine had she not interfered and she knows that. Just like she never forgot what Silco had done. But, they were the same and she chose him as a father figure.

We don't see Silco be physically affectionate or let his guard down with anyone but Jinx later on, which makes me believe more that him allowing Powder to hug him and holding her isn't normal for him. He could have killed her instead like he planned.

Instead, he fully brings her into his confidence and makes her his family, a daughter to replace the brother he lost perhaps. Every human being needs companionship and Silco is not different just because he does horrible shit. He's human and has human psychology. Them showing Silco has Jinx help *stab him in the eye* regularly shows that she is uniquely close, no one did that before, and he has a hard time without her help.

When Jinx is triggered by her experiment with the hex gemstone, where does she go? To Silco's office. He tells her he can't trust anyone else with building the weapon that will win the war and make their future better. She is his #1, Sevika his #2 as the brothel madam says to Vi. But, she is special.

When Sevika fails, she gets a professional reprimand, and when Jinx hits Piltover he confronts her like an enraged parent. He doesn't hit her like you would expect from someone so regularly violent. And she doesn't seem bothered at all. I think she doesn't regularly get consequences, citing Sevika, Finn, and Rennie's criticism of Silco and how he can't control Jinx, and how that has made him weak and unfit to lead.

Sevika says she is bad for their cause and she is right. Silco ignores or shuts down these criticisms and its unusual because he's is a cutthroat man with a one track mind: to defeat Piltover.

If he was using Jinx for that end, manipulating her as is so often said, he isn't doing a good job. If he was using her and shaping her, she would be his ace, the linchpin in his plan to rule Zaun. She would be his perfect soldier.

But she isn't. She's a liability. All we see is him encourage her, remind her that Vi is gone and can no longer control her or hurt her, he is there to help her, and he thinks she's perfect. That's a father.

Granted, he isn't well versed in mental health so his solution to Jinx's triggers is to give her a baptism so "fear of pain" won't control her; that was his solution so he think it will work for her..

He doesn't know what we know, that PTSD can't be solved by a dip in polluted waters. It's all he can do, however. And protecting Jinx from further trauma by eliminating her sister before she finds out she's back isn't something any of us would do, but it makes sense for his character. He kills problems. He's not gonna set up family counseling for them.

He believes Vi can only hurt Jinx, like Vander hurt him, and Jinx is currently unstable so she can't handle the stress of it. It's not healthy, but that's Zaun.

He also raised her and encouraged her "gadgetry", pushes her to relax with her hobbies and take some time when stressed. He raised her to be strong and raised her to survive in Zaun, so explosives and guns are part of that. She was working on them with Vander and Vi too, and Milo thought she should brawl with them.

The only extra violence he allows Jinx is the same coping mechanism he has of brutalizing people to feel good. If he does it, you expect him to teach her differently? Which is why he isn't an ideal father figure. But, he is the best father he knew how to be.

This is shown to us in the little details of the mug and ashtray we see that Jinx made for him, being on display at all times. He is saying he is proud of her. Even though it doesn't fit his kingpin persona. It's shown in how Jinx goes to him for support, how she wants to make him proud, and how she challenges him like when she mocks his drowning story and his "rants and hard earned lessons". Jinx is comfortable and safe with him, and has agency in their relationship. She disobeys when she deems necessary, like children do.

When we see Silco find Jinx on the bridge, he is stunned and horrified by her injury. When he sees the gemstone in her hand, he has a peculiar blank expression I didn't know how to read at first. But, I think it is the beginning of his realization that he can't sacrifice her for the cause. He thought he could lose /anything/ for power. But, he sees the gemstone, and at the same time the voice over has Cait saying "so it was all for nothing" and I think that's on purpose. If he gains the gemstone at the price of his daughter's life, well its worth nothing to him. And I think that feeling does scare him.

Singed later asks if he is willing to lose her and he can't answer, just says with determination that she can't die, like he won't let her by sheer force of will. Him giving her a forehead kiss, and only on the strap no less, his supposed to show he cares for her, even when he has nothing to gain but her life. Singed sees his love and has to sedate him because he understands.

Silcos character arc wraps up in the dinner scene where he reassures her that she is his daughter and he could never forsake her, which he knows to be true now that he couldn't give her up for Zaun. He isn't mad he's tied up, and he isn't angry when she shoots him. His last words are an affirmation of love, and a plea to be strong.

His character arc culminates in him thinking about protecting someone more than accomplishing his dream. Which is what he hated Vander for. He was undone by having a daughter, like Vander was. He dies a father doing what was best for his daughter. Like Vander did. He finally understands why Vander did what he did, and that family, that Jinx, is worth more than anything.

This is exactly what I thought when watching the show. Silco is an amazing character.

Watching Silco drag on that cigarette was the hottest fucking thing ever

God I have never wanted to be a cigarette so fucking bad what the fuck

The things that scene did to my body... that man has no rights to be that hot!

I have been sitting on this for years as well. I have not played The Evil Within 2 myself but I have watched a full playthrough of it when it came out, and I have to say, sure, Stefano is an interesting character. Sort of charismatic, twisted with a dash of PTSD, his art is eerily beautiful and I can appreciate it. He has an aesthetic and I see it. But...

His ass will never be Ruvik.

Stefano lost an eye while taking a photo during a war and captured a person's exact moment of death and became obsessed with doing it again... The exact moment of death became his muse.

Excuse me? I feel for you dude and I'm not one to dilute people's traumas but...

You will never be Ruvik.

Ruvik set the stage and left pretty huge shoes to fill even though he never fuckin wore any.

Oh you lost an eye? Eh, fuck you.

Ruvik was HORRIFICALLY burned as a child, he lost the one person he deeply cared for and who cared for him, he was then locked in a basement for 10 years (at the age of 10) by his own father who told his wife that her son was dead, he killed his parents after he was finally able to escape(he wanted revenge but from the looks of it he was pretty shaken about it in the memory he shared), he worked hard to build a machine with the intention of seeing his sister within his memories again, and then got all his research stolen by someone who was "kind" to him as a child. Yeah, Jimenez can suck a dick and choke.

Then a shady company called MOBIUS came in, held him down, stripped him of his body piece by piece, and then used his brain as it's fucking core. Now he's literally trapped within his own warped and tortured mind with no way to escape as he no longer has a physical form. Ruvik was fucked all the way over in every way. How Ruvik is today makes a lot of fuckin sense to me.

Someone: Ruvik is like...fucked up...

Me: Yeah, can ya really blame though?

Stefano, you are a nifty character, your art can be very stunning, I like it, but sit your ass down.

Not having Ruvik at all in the second game is just another dirty thing to happen to him.

Ruvik is a fucking King.

And I STAN his fucking ass.

I used to hate Ruvik.

Ruvik was evil.

Ruvik was the villan.

Ruvik was the bad guy.

Ruvik wanted to use Lesie, the innocent traumatized bean as an escape route.

But when I really paid attention to what happened to him... My heart bleeds for him now. I don't forgive the things he's done but I can at least understand him.

I'm sorry Stefano, but your ass will NEVER be Ruvik.

Plus, The Evil Within 2 is like: My name is Stefano, I lost an eye, I am now a tortured soul, I shall kill people and then turn them into beautiful art in a boring MOBIUS made town called Union.

Ehhhhh....

The first Evil Within? Getting to walk around Ruvik's fucked, warped, and twisted mind? Watching his past unfold before us as he shares his memories and what happened to him with us? Getting to see his fucking origins while he truly fucked with us and controled our surrounds because we are literally in his fucking mind where he can do literally anything?

That is pretty fucking dope.

Ruvik made a hell of an impression.

Stefano barely made a blip.

I'm not saying Stefano is a bad character, I'm just saying no one can top Ruvik Victoriano.

Ruvik is an irreplaceable force.