Here's the thing about war. No one ever really wins. The whole prospect of victor and loser is just a smokescreen to hide the harsh reality of what war really entails. Soldiers come back home with a broken conscious, a broken mind; a broken heart. Here's the thing about war; you will always lose. Elizabeth Stark learned that the hard way.

Steve Rogers falls in love with Tony Stark one creation at a time

Antoinette Edelle Stark was born May 29, 1983, with a full head of dark hair, her father's brown eyes, and a delicate red S on her wrist. Steven Grant Rogers was born July 4, 1918, with a closed fist and flailing legs and a capital A on his wrist, sharp and red. It takes them ninety-five years to come together.

For someone like Elizabeth Stark, who has a lot of things under her control; fire, water, ice, electricity, the world sure throws a lot of crap at her. It hasn't even been a year since the evil horned God fiasco and she already has to deal with Human Furnaces and World Dominating Robots. But for someone who practically caused these messes, her brother is handling it spectacularly.

Once upon a time, there was a man. There was a woman. There was a boy. There was a baby. Once upon a time, there was a lightning bolt. There was a sky full of red, blue, green, purple, yellow, orange. The lightning bolt stuck the baby. Once upon a time, a lightning bolt should have killed the baby. It didn't. She grew up. She survived. Elizabeth Maria Stark always survived.

"PERSPECTIVE IS THE WAY WE SEE THINGS WHEN WE LOOK AT THEM FROM A CERTAIN DISTANCE AND IT ALLOWS US TO APPRECIATE THEIR TRUE VALUE" –RAFAEL E. PINO- OR All the times someone realized exactly how much Felicity meant to Oliver and the extent of their partnership.

He knows its not her. He has the mantra repeating constantly in his head. But he can't manage to formulate any other thoughts besides her laugh, the blue of her eyes and her bright smile even when he tries to block them out in order to release his arrow into her heart. Or: Another way Crisis On Earth-X could have gone down.

A painting allows one to see from a different perspective. And so Vincent did; he saw another side of Klaus Mikaelson. He saw the murderous beast through the eyes of someone else; Hope Mikaelson. All it took was a painting.