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he's an apostate. he's a grey warden. he's on the run from the law. he's bonded body mind and soul to a spirit of the fade. he practices one of the rarest and most taxing magical diciplines known to mages. he's a cat dad. he was put in solitary confinement for a full year. he saves lives daily and asks for no payment. he's a massive bitch. he's personal friends with the hero of ferelden. he hates the church. he's hopelessly in love with you. he writes and distributes his own manifesto. he was forced to kill his own ex boyfriend. he doesn't see a way out. he's fucking blonde.
full offense if someone nuked my nice little settlement i’d literally make it my mission to destroy their life
I'm kinda obsessed with the period between the Unknowing and Jon's return and the Martin-Basira-Melanie relationship during it because in my view the sequence of decisions that Martin makes during that space of time are in fact the cruelest things he's ever done in the the podcast. He left them alone not too much long after Jared's attack on the institute to cooperate with someone who as far as they knew was there to intentionally harm them. And it's clear how much this undermined the trust they placed in him, especially because Melanie doesn't even mention him until season 5. And I think this is his character's mortal flaw, not the manipulation as a defense mechanism, he has such a low sense of value and is so incapable of thinking beyond the figure of the plus one that he has internalized for himself that he simply doesn't care about explaining his actions or acknowledging his responsibility for people's pain. He can't see himself as part of the system and someone who actively hurts people because he doesn't believe he has enough power to do it.
pointing emphatically and jumping up and down YEAH. that's exactly it! and like most good fatal flaws, it's double edged and can sometimes work as a positive, ex. he stopped believing peter because he didn't buy that he was uniquely important enough to be the only one who could save the world from the extinction. he doesn't feel like he's capable of, well, being capable, to the point where there are few times jon looks to him and says "you can make this decision and I'll act on it" and martin point blank refuses because he just can't. his complete lack of ego at times can almost twist back around into selfishness, because he can't conceive of anyone being really affected by his actions so he proceeds with the underlying idea that being absent from or cold with them won't mean anything.
so he goes into the coffin dimension, right? and his plan to get back relies on his psychic connection to his rib, which he had taken out of his body specially for this task. it doesn't work, but you can sorta see where he was coming from, and this is an upgrade from his first plan, which was repeatedly chopping off his own fingers to use for the same task. at this point, you may be asking yourself "these plans are so bad? why was this what he went with?" and to that I say, he did have a back up plan: if his flesh anchors didn't work, then at least he would be basically dead.
Please be my model. Without my help, you’d be locked up in jail by now. I said no.
Obligatory Medic drawing since I started playing TF2 again
Happy Birthday to Edelgard, here are some older pieces featuring our unyielding emperor☆