Intended to be just a small little topic. Isn't really, but.
The way my place of residence at college this year is set up, there are four buildings of suites all surrounding this one square courtyard-ish place. (It apparently has a name, even.) There's a sidewalk that goes around this square, and then there are pieces of sidewalk that go from the sides of the square to the middle, where there's a round area of sidewalk in the middle.
And tonight (well, yesterday evening technically because it's after midnight but), the residence staff of the suites decided to make a small bonfire in the middle of this sidewalk circle, and everyone got to make smores!
Much as I still don't like getting close enough to the fire in order to get marshmallows to melt too much, it was good~
Also, I've been reading the second book in the War of the Ancients trilogy (Warcraft universe, for those who headtilt). Mostly on bus rides to and from the other campus and in the twenty minutes I usually have before every economics class. (I'm actually almost done with it, shock and gasp.) But it occurs to me...
When he's just activated the Dragon Soul and frozen all of the dragonflights and Alexstrasza tries to reason with him, Neltharion (who at that point had been being driven towards madness by voices in his head, long story) actually seems to have a moment of clarity and break free of the madness for an instant. Of course, then Alexstrasza makes the mistake of mentioning the Dragon Soul and he immediately relapses thinking that she wants to take it from him, but if she hadn't...
I wonder what would have happened if she hadn't brought it up just then. He probably would have still relapsed into madness, but maybe it would have bought a couple of extra seconds. Maybe those couple of extra seconds would have allowed Neltharion to fight the madness at least a little. Maybe, given just those couple of extra seconds, that would have caused Korialstraz's attack's effectiveness to be just that much greater that it would, say, knock a scale from Neltharion's body into the Dragon Soul (which would, of course, damage if not destroy it). Who knows how Azeroth's history might have changed had Alexstrasza not mentioned the Dragon Soul when she did. At the very least, it could make an interesting AU concept if I did a bit more research into the lore...
Or maybe I'm just thinking too much into it and focusing too much on what Neltharion probably was like before his corruption. I tend to focus a lot on the non-corrupted versions of characters who get corrupted or brainwashed or possessed or things like that, bonus points if they have a whole freak out sequence afterwards and then get redeemed (though Neltharion/Deathwing doesn't fit that yet if he ever will). I don't know why this is, but it's hard for me to not notice it...
*hopes the spellings of names have not been butchered above*
And tonight (well, yesterday evening technically because it's after midnight but), the residence staff of the suites decided to make a small bonfire in the middle of this sidewalk circle, and everyone got to make smores!
Much as I still don't like getting close enough to the fire in order to get marshmallows to melt too much, it was good~
Also, I've been reading the second book in the War of the Ancients trilogy (Warcraft universe, for those who headtilt). Mostly on bus rides to and from the other campus and in the twenty minutes I usually have before every economics class. (I'm actually almost done with it, shock and gasp.) But it occurs to me...
When he's just activated the Dragon Soul and frozen all of the dragonflights and Alexstrasza tries to reason with him, Neltharion (who at that point had been being driven towards madness by voices in his head, long story) actually seems to have a moment of clarity and break free of the madness for an instant. Of course, then Alexstrasza makes the mistake of mentioning the Dragon Soul and he immediately relapses thinking that she wants to take it from him, but if she hadn't...
I wonder what would have happened if she hadn't brought it up just then. He probably would have still relapsed into madness, but maybe it would have bought a couple of extra seconds. Maybe those couple of extra seconds would have allowed Neltharion to fight the madness at least a little. Maybe, given just those couple of extra seconds, that would have caused Korialstraz's attack's effectiveness to be just that much greater that it would, say, knock a scale from Neltharion's body into the Dragon Soul (which would, of course, damage if not destroy it). Who knows how Azeroth's history might have changed had Alexstrasza not mentioned the Dragon Soul when she did. At the very least, it could make an interesting AU concept if I did a bit more research into the lore...
Or maybe I'm just thinking too much into it and focusing too much on what Neltharion probably was like before his corruption. I tend to focus a lot on the non-corrupted versions of characters who get corrupted or brainwashed or possessed or things like that, bonus points if they have a whole freak out sequence afterwards and then get redeemed (though Neltharion/Deathwing doesn't fit that yet if he ever will). I don't know why this is, but it's hard for me to not notice it...
*hopes the spellings of names have not been butchered above*