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alexbutrandomthoughts · 7 days

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Do you mind if I ask your top 10 favorite characters (can be male or female) from all of the media that you loved (can be anime/manga, books, movies or tv series)? And why do you love them? Sorry if you've answered this question before.....Thanks...

Boy oh boy where do i even start. Honestly it's always hard to pin down my favorite characters across all the fandoms cuz I've consumed a LOT of media,but I'll try to name the current ones (warning, i am such a basic bitch this list is gonna predictable afffff. Probably.)

10. Ai Hoshino (Oshi no ko)

Ngl if you ignore most of the weird shit that happens in oshi no ko, it is such a goddamn captivating story, Ai in particular. Idk i guess i really like the idea of this "ultimate idol" who is a pathological liar (due to honestly unfortunately circumstances) having to maintain this picture perfect image, to the point where people don't even perceived her as a real person. And it's really tragic considering all she ever wanted to is to actually say "i love you" and mean it for once.

9. Killua Zoldyck (Hunter×Hunter)

Was he start of my obsession with white haired characters? Nah, but he definitely contributed. Honestly, sassy brat with a soft spot that can absolutely fuck shit up? Yeah there was no way i wouldn't have been obsessed with Killua the second he got introduced. Honestly i like Gon almost as much, but i prefer moodie baddies to sunshine characters. I would genuinely dedicate another 10 hours minimum to talk about him, but i don't think ppl will care enough to read so yeeah

8. Sunset Shimmer (MLP)

I wasn't really in the mlp fandom, so i have no idea how Sunset was perceived initially (i would assume negatively, but then again idk) so i am going off of the fact my lil sisters used to haTE on her in the first movie, but MAAAAAN I LIKED HER BITCHY SELF EVEN BACK THEN. The former star pupil of princess Celestia???? That left to another world cuz of her own hubris???? AND SHE'S PUNK ROCK???? I mean she got redeemed and joined the main six and all, but overall, probably my favorite mlp character (still mourn the bitchy attitude tho, in that regard i prefer Starlight but i digress)

7. Sans Undertale

I mean. Yeah. I already said I'm basic as fuck but like. At least i don't wanna fuck him. Anywaaay, i guess it's the air of mystery to this seemingly chill guy, who just hangs around and tells bad jokes and somehow aware of the timelines more than the rest, probably related to Gaster in some way, and maybe he's not even a monster cuz monsters don't bleed and he fucking does, what does this all mean TOBY FOX I NEED ANSWERS- and he has arguably the best fight in the entire game, so yknow. Cool guy

6. Gwen Stacy (Spiderverse)

I liked her in "In to the Spiderverse" but i absolutely loved her in ATSV. Her struggles and mistakes felt so real and I'm so glad they decide to focus on her this film (the opening sequence dead ass my favorite scene in the whole movie) and explore her backstory with Peter's death and her father, it's just adding the depth to a character that was already great just UGH chef's kiss

5. Tooru Oikawa (Haikyuu)

God he has such a slappable face, i love him. I knew from the second when the fangirls screamed, i would either hate him or love him. Every scene he was in, he served (pun intended), he slayed and made me cry. I know decent junk of the fandom are avid Oikawa haters but they can honestly suck my dic-

Anyway yeah he is my boy

4. Osamu Dazai (Bungoe Stray Dogs)

Goofy ass detective with a dark past, homosexual rival and who's also a suicidal maniac? Yeah this was tailor made for me. Can you tell i have a type because i definitely do. I just really like mfkas with slappable faces. I am a sucker for redeemed bad guys, who are now try to be good cuz 💫reasons💫. AND i am also weak for mentor apprentice trops (Atsushi/Dazai shippers back off, i bite and definitely have rabies)

3. Satoru Gojo (Jujutsu Kaisen)

Speaking of my obsession with white haired guys. Yeah, I'm not sure what can i even say that haven't been said abt this guy and reasons to love him (fuck u gege) honestly will i ever stop loving side characters who are often silly mentor figures, with lots of baggage, a gay rival and too much angst? I can only say one thing.

Nah I'd win

2. Maomao (The Apothecary diaries)

BSODGWOWBSHSOSNS9WHSOSBISGWJWVSVDIWJWJEJIEHEIEHJEBEIS. Ahem, okay so hands down my favorite female protagonist of all time. God she is just perfect. Istg all u people who never watched Apothecary diaries I BEG U TO WATCH IT PLSSSS IT'S SO GOOD. Even if you don't watch anime, i promise you this show is absolutely worth the time. Maomao is what happens when you write a good no, GREAT female character without the whole anime bs. Like???? She has her own strength and weaknesses and she doesn't need to be physically strong (full offense, marvel) or be "not like the other girls" to be great.

1. Kaveh (Genshin impact)

So uhhhh, you can really blame Will Stetson for this one. I genuinely couldn't have cared less about genshin or this random blond if it wasn't for "Writing on the Wall". It started with a banger ass song, and ended with arguably my favorite character in all of media ever. I think one of my favorite things abt Kaveh, is that compared to some of the other characters in genshin, he's really just a guy. Like bro missed the entire archon quest, mfka was just minding his own business. He is tortured architect and honestly bro has taken so many Ls in life it's kinda crazy. And well the fact that he has "a roommate" just adds more to him. Gay rival and all

Aaaaand that's 10 characters. Honestly i wouldn't call it my top 10 favorite of all time. I probably forgot some of the characters that i used to be obsessed with at some point. I just picked the ones that came first to mind :3

#jeez sorry for yapping so much i didn't expect it to get this long considering i didn't even say that much abt the characters 💀

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thattimdrakeguy · 5 years

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I like the current Teen Titans.

I been reading the latest issues of Teen Titans just out of curiosity, and I actually quite like them.

Since the first two issues of Teen Titans Rebirth were some of the worst comic issues I’ve ever read in my entire life. I mostly avoided Damian’s Teen Titans, including a team that’s actually his with friends of his own, but now that I’ve read a few issues of the latest ones. I actually really enjoyed them, mostly.

It’s nothing I’d pick up every month, because edgy stuff isn’t my tastes, but I appreciate how they have the characters actually react like how they would around Damian, and don’t force Damian to be out of characters every several moments just so he can be more “likable” or what ever they try that for.

(This is the most exaggerated case of it for reference. This comes during a big issue. It isn’t always this bad, so don’t worry. I mostly just thought the dramatic finger point mixed with Damian in chains and the bad art was really funny.)

To me it actually makes it more enjoyable, believable, and therefore easier to read because it doesn’t feel contrived half the time to force moments to happen rather than just making the moments what would happen.

Even if large chunks of the fandom (and certain DC writers) want to pretend otherwise, Damian is a violent edgy character.

The other day I reread those two issues in Superman were the Super Sons first met, just to see if I remembered it accurately, and it was so bad.

(I’m aware I talk bad about Super Sons a lot, but to really get why I like Teen Titans the way I do it needs context.)

Damian kidnapped and chemically sedated Jon so much he was practically temporarily paralyzed, he was going to let Jon fall off a mountain when he knew he couldn’t fly, and even swung an axe at Jon’s face.

Like if you don’t think that’s horrible stuff, you may be insane. Superman at first even reacts appropriately by being steaming pissed.

Then though, they just quickly ignore that to make a forced short joke that doesn’t actually make sense because Damian was never that short for his age before. They literally just randomly at times pretend otherwise because they want to deprecate him a bit to trick the audience into thinking he’s a cuter character.

Jon was literally horrified and beaten down a few moments ago. Besides his powers, he still has the personality of a normal 10 year old kid. A normal kid wouldn’t forget what just happened to him like it was nothing.

That happens right after Damian kidnapped and temporally chemically paralyzed Jon. Jon was horrified, why pretend he wasn’t all of a sudden?

After that they have Damian show Jon his animals. Something that’s just there to pander to that part of the fandom that regresses Damian into just an animal lover, even though Damian most likely wouldn’t suddenly talk about his animals to a person he considers to be a threat so bad that he actually kidnapped him to do experiments on him.

Why are they pretending Damian didn’t just kidnap and chemically paralyze Jon? Fiction is suppose to follow basic human logic, this doesn’t do that at all.

Damian even mocks Jon’s PTSD for that time Jon lost controlled and killed the family cat. Causing Jon to punch Damian in the gut, an understandable reaction, and then the parents come in (also understandably so), but then they play it like it’s comedic?

They play it as if they got caught sneaking out after bed time. Instead of getting into a full on highly physical fight because Damian Wayne brought up Jon Kent’s traumatic experience solely to mock him. That’s horrendous writing. It doesn’t follow the logic of human people at all. Or even the set up, because there’s no joke, but look at that last panel. Out of context, would you think what had just happened happened? Or would you expect something much more lighthearted instead?

Continuously they always just ignored stuff, or played Damian so out of character because they were afraid of him being unlikable.

ACKNOWLEDGE WHAT’S ACTUALLY GOING ON. Damian is punching Jon to the ground so he can use a sharp bladed axe against him as a weapon. This isn’t a “oh, kids will be kids” scuffle, the actual event is a life threatening altercation.

Stop trying to play these horrible things Damian does for comedy, and just ignoring basic human logic to force in humor were it doesn’t belong.

To do something like that is genuinely bad writing. It’s contrived and doesn’t let any of the character’s feel authentic, because they’re ignoring the blatant obvious in front of them.

(For context, this panel happens right before Damian swings a bladed weapon at Jon, but irregardless of that-)

-Damian didn’t truly develop as a character to warrant this. He’s clearly still a bad person to Jon. Why in the world would they be acting like this? He was still going to let Jon fall off a cliff earlier that day, and it’s also still blatantly ignoring Damian kidnapping and chemically paralyzing Jon in favor of pretending things are cuter and softer than the truth.

In the middle of the issue they shoved in this panel against it’s will.

It’s so out of place to me, because it doesn’t match up with anything build up at all, and doesn’t even match up with what happened after. They don’t like each other. Damian has constantly done massively horrible things to Jon.

Damian practically abuses Jon over the course over the entire day, and they have the gall, to force in some awful symbolism that “aww they’re going to get along”. It doesn’t match the characters, realistically that’ll never happen, it doesn’t even match the story they’ve told so far.

They clearly wanted this moment to be good and heart warming, but it just doesn’t work because it doesn’t blend with anything. It’s painfully contrived because it doesn’t work on any level at all.

The thing to me is though, you aren’t suppose to read Damian because you find him likable as a personality, you’re supposed to find him unique and interesting. How he’s unique is what’s suppose to make people like him as a character.

In Teen Titans lately it’s often that Damian gets crap for what he does, and they don’t suddenly cower out of it because they’re scared of him being unlikable. They just embrace who Damian is and it’s super refreshing.

See how they actually react like how they would instead of just ignoring it?

Almost the entirety of issue 34 is people calling out Damian for his personality and methods. They don’t just skim over it, and they don’t force in pandering garbage just to get some easy-bake points to hide their crummy writing.

They go for it, instead of holding back because they’re afraid of how Damian’s character may come off when he’s actually himself.

Instead of ignoring the obvious like so many pasts occasions with Damian, it’s actually treating these character’s like they’re real people and allowing them to react as they truly would in these situations depending on their various personalities.

Damian in Teen Titans actually acts like Damian, and people finally react to him like he’s actually done the stuff he’s done when they find out about his secret prison.

There isn’t constant Al Ghul flashbacks to excuse Damian’s behavior or woobify him more. If a character thinks Damian did a bad thing, they think he did a bad thing.

Some of them are bluntly aware that Damian is doing things a bad guy would do, and like a bad guy they don’t constantly go back to their origin like they should ignore his actions. The character’s are instead actually character’s that have character to them instead of having the brakes pulled on them all the time because the writer worried too much.

When ever a character backs Damian up or not it creates a character conflict instead of seeming forced or contrived.

I think this Teen Titans is actually what Damian needs, because it feels like the writer understands who Damian is, without being afraid of how Damian is.

They even have moments were you gotta wonder if Damian is sincere or not. Creating a intrigue around his character. Were it actually uses his character traits for some interesting moments and fascination.

Is he telling the truth?

It’s so much more satisfying of a read, when character’s act like themselves and things get reacted to as so.

They don’t have to constantly fake anything, or have a character act out of character when they do something to get what they want, because what they want is a naturally developing story.

You can argue that Damian goes farther than were Damian would go, but he’s always struggled with what’s right or wrong. It’s one of the main point of the character. He would do some messed up stuff if he thought it was the right thing. He isn’t a villain anymore, but anti-heroes do exist, and Damian, while I don’t believe he directly kills anyone, still falls under that territory, and he fits there magnificently.

It’s super edgy, and I’m not even a fan of edgy stuff naturally, but I think too many people in this part of the fandom connect edgy with bad, when that isn’t really the case. While it shouldn’t be the industry standard, the tone is simply what fits the character. Damian is an incredibly edgy character, and therefore this tone fits perfectly, because you don’t have to shove him into a round hole when he’s square, he’s square and this is the edgy square hole he belongs in, and it’s okay. Being edgy doesn’t make him or this comic bad.

The edginess is almost what makes it work since it’s the tone Damian as a natural character has.

Some people I’ve seen has said stuff like, “I don’t like Damian in Teen Titans, he’s much more likable in Super Sons or Detective Comics” and I just think they miss the point of Damian’ character.

To me, the standard should be writers writing the character’s to be in character. If Damian in a comic that treats him like himself makes you not like him, you should just not like him. Which is a weird way to put it, but DC’s incapability to get writers that care has caused situations like this that should have never been. It’s making it more difficult for fans to know if they like a character or not because sometimes the character comes off totally different under a worse writer.

The worst part of Teen Titans is the super ugly art style, Damian still being Robin, because honestly there’s no reason at all for him to be Robin, I understand he’s still young but from a character and story perspective he’s just better off not being Robin quite frankly, and Djinn being in a romance with Damian (I think?) and a crush for (this is her name) Crush. Seeing how she’s 4 thousand years old, and it’s seriously creepy that they’re trying to use a 4 thousand year old genie for an at least implied romance with teenagers.

It’s not the best comic ever, and most of the character’s won’t stick with me, but I appreciate it as a comic for Damian. It’s what he needs honestly.

I wouldn’t even classify it even close to the best Titans, but it’s me appreciating that the comic actually does it’s job.

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