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“I am cursed by the narrative”
No, the narrative is as obsessed with me as I am with freedom. The narrative saw me along with every other version and decided that I was special. The narrative adores me and views me as a relic. I am Beautiful in the narratives eyes and it is beautiful to me. I am scared of the narrative but i also crave its attention.
arkayne to me is the kind of ship dynamic where for arthur it's psychological horror and for kayne it's hot girl summer
interesting ship dynamic that seems to occur in horror podcasts: protagonist who knows they're in a horror podcast and wants desperately to escape x antagonist who's convinced they're in a weird dating sim instead
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Little au concept:
What if in one of the different universes, Kayne explained more about his abilities when he first met Arthur, just to see what would happen. In this universe, john was the one who suggested that if things don’t work out Arthur would die and they would work things out in the dark world, In this universe John was the one with the knife, and in this universe, Arthur disagreed with John’s backup plan. When John drove the knife into Arthur’s neck Arthur felt betrayed despite living, and Kayne, after having so many similar conversations, assumes Arthur would want John back, and is surprised when he stands corrected.
Arthur decides that he’s sick of the world, sick of being betrayed by John and sick of himself, so he asks Kayne to help him do the same think Kayne once did. Kayne, intrigued and curious on what would happen if a mortal did so, agrees so long as Arthur can stomach the worst of it, so he takes Arthur to a universe where Arthur is happy. Sure he still experienced loss, not Faroe is alive and his pride and joy, where Arthur’s absence would be felt and hurt the person to whom he holds most of his regrets.
No, no. Let them cook. Let them cook.
arkayne is so fascinating to me because it's such a crackship but it's also like. what if a god was obsessed with seeing you reach your limit. what if you were the only mortal that stood out to him and neither of you understand why. what if he spent time watching your life so he could understand only to come up empty and now he's waiting to mess with you until you break.
@behold-cyaegha
(I was wondering why that disappeared at first lmao-)
*puts on my Religion Major hat*
I absolutely see your vision and I laughed so hard when I read that reply. I think a lot of us have a really indoctrinated view of The Book of Job from preachers/priests that really do mean well but aren’t really pedaling the originally intended message of the story (the messages we have now aren’t anything to sneeze at. It’s beautiful how religion adapts over time).
Anyway, the parallels are KINDA WHACK WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT! While Arthur certainly did not have the ideal life like Job did at first, there definitely is that message of earth shattering sudden change as a part of a deal with deities of much higher status than mortals. It’s interesting to think about!
arkayne is so fascinating to me because it's such a crackship but it's also like. what if a god was obsessed with seeing you reach your limit. what if you were the only mortal that stood out to him and neither of you understand why. what if he spent time watching your life so he could understand only to come up empty and now he's waiting to mess with you until you break.