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halcyone-of-the-sea · 7 months

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i’ve never requested anything from anyone so i’m a lil nervy butttt…

i’d love a relationship arc with the one and only soap! i love him and his lil mohawk! like he’s stationed wherever and he meets then falls in love with a native citizen who works closely with the military and their relationship from when they first meet to first date to first kid to marriage (100% doesn’t need to be in that order btw)

everything you come up with is 🤌 so i know it’ll be good!🤍🤍

—Life Snaps By In Flashes

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╰┈➤ ❝ [A collection of memories from the second he laid eyes on you. All flashing past in the soft buzzing of the overhead lights.] ❞

It was by some dumb luck that he’d locked eyes with you that day, decades ago now, but he carries that memory with him like a dog with a bone. Stuck under the glow of the overhead lights, Soap calls them all forward—the good, the bad, the moments of peaceful nothing.

It had been on an OP, out in the field on surveillance for another threat. You had served him a coffee at a cafe, given that kind smile, and he had been gone far before he had been called to move in. Johnny was surprised at how fast it had happened, but he had always been easy to gather affection from, truthfully.

And when he had found out that you were an informant? Beautiful, smart, and reliable? He had half stuttered his way through a fake confident question for your number, and you had happily agreed with a smirk. You told him it was because of his honesty—the intentions clear on his face from the moment you’d walked through the door of the military base, written intel under your left arm and a recorder in your right palm.

He thought you were perfect from only one glance, and he had never thought otherwise.

Of course, there were fights, and disagreements about the job and the safety of each other. That was fair—it was natural. That was life, and what would the purpose be unless to prove that the two of you loved with all of your souls?

The first date was common, nothing fancy—a nice, casual supper at a restaurant that would be frequented far into your older years. Everyone there would end up knowing your names, the owner himself being invited to your wedding.

Oh, the wedding. Johnny can call that forward as easily as air. Or, at least, as easily as air used to come to him.

You, in that dress, staring at him and walking down that aisle. Everything else had blurred that day, and all he could care about was how you looked at him—standing just ahead with your hands in his shaky ones; his lips quivering as he pushed out a shocked laugh.

“You look…amazing, Bonnie. Lord, you’re just perfect.” You had laughed at his hushed whisper above the muttering of the officiant, eyes glassy. Johnny had tried to stifle his hoarse inhales as you called him handsome right back.

From then came the next journey—kids. Many of them. Johnny had as big of a family as he and you had always wanted; adventures and hardships. Football games and music shows, painting exhibits, and movie nights where everyone was snuggled together. His blue eyes staring at you over the heads of your brood.

Every night he would thank you for it. Every night.

The years drew and drew, retirement and the kids going off to Uni—leaving and getting married themselves. Wrinkles. Graying hair.

Until here.

Until muscles broke down and you needed a wheelchair, Johnny a cane. Until the kids had thought it better to make his office into an at-home care room for the two of you—a live-in nurse down the hall.

The kids had visited yesterday with their own little ones. The older ones had known, of course, just by looking. Smart devils, Johnny had called them when they were just tiny things. And they were.

You and him had raised some damn smart little devils.

Johnny had snuck into your room tonight, his heart hurting him and his mind understanding. He slipped into your bed and you both shared it one last time as you weakly kissed his pale cheek, him nuzzling his head into yours and muttering a low ‘I love you’.

You had passed not three minutes ago.

As he always had been, Johnny was loathed to leave you waiting for him. So here, with those overhead lights, he lets his eyes dip closed, and he swears that a soft hand brushes his cheek, calling him home.

Outside, the crickets creek, and the stars blink. The wind slips through the curtains of the open window, swaying them in a dance only they know.

Johnny does as he always did before he fell asleep, and it came as easy as letting that final breath go.

“...Thank you.”

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thefandomenchantress · 2 months

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I think... I think if Ace doesn't die soon, he won't die at all. I can only see him as a victim because he's too dumb to be a third chapter/fourth chapter (let alone fifth chapter) killer. He might be a victim, though...

Yeah, I agree! I’ve actually thought for a while that if Ace isn’t the chapter 2 killer, he won’t die at all.

Let me explain that. While victim-Ace is possible, I feel like seeing him be killed might be a bit undercut by the fact that we’ve seen someone attempt to murder him before. Usually, seeing a character you like all bloodied is a new thing that will make you feel sad and distraught, since you’ve never seen them like that before. But with Ace it may feel like we’re just rehashing old events so that he can actually die this time, if that makes sense. It doesn’t hit as hard to have him be a victim if he was already almost a victim once. If it happens in chapter three, it might feel like that first time didn’t effect his character enough to actually justify his almost-death, it makes it feel like he was just a plot device to get Nico’s arc to be fully realized before Ace could finally actually die.

Onto the question of Ace being a killer or not, chapter 3, 4, and 5 killers often have more complex murder schemes, and you’re right, Ace doesn’t seem like the type of character to be smart enough to make up a murder scheme better than someone like Min would, even if Min’s attempt was done on the fly.

He’s so dumb that the only way I could see him being a killer…Is if that was the point.

Chapter two is all about subverting expectations about people’s true nature. Hence the title connecting to the saying “not all that glitters is gold”. David actually has an incredibly depressing and pessimistic outlook on the world, Nico is capable of doing evil things, etc.

So having the culprit subvert expectations would make sense, too. That’s one reason I like the Eden culprit theory (I DON’T THINK SHE’S SECRETLY EVIL, JUST THAT SHE MAY BE THE CULPRIT). The nicest person in class committed murder, gasp!

If Ace were the killer, the twist would be that their quote on quote ‘dumbest’ classmate managed to almost fool them all into voting for the wrong person, and would’ve if it hadn’t been for Teruko, and overall created an extremely clever murder scheme that almost let them get away with it, something that they never would’ve expected Ace to be capable of.

And since Ace almost got murdered right before this trial, his motive could be that since he just almost died, he thought he’d definitely die for real if he didn’t murder someone soon. His emotional instability is probably at an all-time high right now, after all.

Still, Ace being the culprit this chapter doesn’t seem to really feel like it should happen? His secret shed a lot more light on his character, sure, but it didn’t feel like the final puzzle piece we were missing before we can fully understand his character. It feels like his character has a lot more it should do before he dies.

One could argue that we’ll figure out the rest of his backstory and all that in a bonus episode, but there’s a reason those episodes are called bonus episodes and not epilogues. They shouldn’t be required viewing in order for you to understand a character, they should be there to help you further get to know a character you already understand.

There’s also the tape. I know everyone who’s seen the Eden culprit theories knows all about the titular disappearing tape, since that’s what a lot of the theory is based on. And I still stand by it not being a technical error until proven otherwise. I hate assuming the creator of anything I watch/play made a mistake or a retcon before we get the whole picture, just because it doesn’t fit with my current view of the story they’re making. But to get back on track, if we go under the assumption that the tape disappeared on purpose, which makes sense since it literally is said to have disappeared by the time Teruko and Rose get to the gym the next morning, that leaves us with three potential suspects: Eden, Ace, and Teruko. Only they could’ve taken the tape.

I don’t think anyone will disagree with me dismissing Teruko as the culprit immediately. It just doesn’t fit with her character motivations, especially since she literally told everyone she’s not going to commit a murder and she wants to live in the killing game building, because free food and no rent and such.

And Ace…Well, he could’ve taken it, but it still just doesn’t seem right. While you can argue he decided to commit a murder because of the Nico incident, there’s no way he could’ve thought ahead about needing the tape for that when, as stated by Ace, his only goal at the time was to kill Nico right then and there. He had no complex murder scheme thought up yet, so he couldn’t have known he’d need the tape. You could argue he lied about wanting to kill Nico right then and there and that he actually secretly had thought up a murder plan, I guess, or that he somehow thought he could use the tape as a weapon to kill Nico, but still. It feels like a little bit of a stretch, especially since Ace both just woke up and was bleeding heavily, not leaving much of a possibility for him to have believably been able to think of a complex murder method on the spot and know he should steal the tape. And if he wanted to use it as a weapon, why would he hide that from Teruko when he was perfectly fine telling her he was going to kill Nico? Overall it doesn’t seem as likely as Eden stealing it when she fell, leaving her as my prime suspect for being the killer.

Also, having Ace be like “I’m gonna die” and Teruko be like “someone like you isn’t going to last long here” at the beginning of the second chapter and then actually just having him die in the second chapter feels a little unsatisfying, because you were waiting for the narrative to prove them wrong. Then again, we’re on chapter two, the doom and gloom chapter, so maybe this is the part where Teruko’s beliefs are proven right (for now) and Ace does die.

So, to summarize: If Ace is going to be a culprit, the second chapter is the only spot where that kinda makes sense for me. I don’t think it’s too likely he will be a victim, especially in chapter three. And all in all I think he has a real shot at surviving the killing game!

Anyways, thanks for the ask! It let me ramble about my convoluted thoughts about when I think Ace will die, which was very fun!

#danganronpa despair time #drdt #drdt spoilers #ace markey #theory #answering inbox message thingys

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razorblade180 · 2 years

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Dragonslayer week Day3: Double Date

Yang:Jaune Arc! Are you prepared for most sensational date of your entire life!?

Jaune:…Isn’t it just a club and bar?

Yang:Jr’s is an experience. Good food, drinks, nice vibe when you’re not fighting everyone, and goes on all night!

Jaune:What was you said?

Yang:It lasts all night.

Jaune:We both know that’s not what I was talking about.

Yang:*smiles* Stop worrying. I’ll have your back if anything goes wrong.

Jaune:Oh I know. I just think you might be overhyping this.

Yang:Your mom is overhyped.

Jaune:Wow! That’s what we’re doing. *pinches her face* Aren’t you the older child?

Yang:I’m also the fun one. Now come on! Play your cards right on the dance floor and lots of things could last all night.

Jaune:*red* I know you’re baiting me, but I accept the challenge.

Yang:That’s the spirit?

xxxx

By the time they arrive everything is in full swing. Loud music, flashing lights, and the smell of fun chaos.

Yang:Today you become a creature of the night!

Jaune:If you drink too much will you hit me if I try holding your hair back?

Yang:That’s a bridge we’ll cross if we get there. I know my limit! Just relax, feel the freedom and danger.

Jaune:Your mom.

Yang:Not that much freedom.

Jaune:Umm, not a joke.

He turns her around to show Yang that her mother is sitting at the bar in a red dress and whiskey in hand, laughing next to someone they can’t see.

Yang:Welp…this is the worst. Let’s leave.

Jaune:Hold on, I’m interested now. Who the heck was able to make your mom dress up? She looks great!

Yang:….

Jaune:Just like her beautiful daughter. The resemblance is striking.

Yang:Nice save, but I rather not see my mother live her life care free without-

People in front of them shuffled about. One of them moved just enough to reveal Tai to be the one having a drink with her.

Yang:Dad!? Oops- *covers mouth*

Tai:*looks their way*…..

Yang:….

Raven:? Tai? Something wrong? *looks* ….

Yang:….

Both women immediately try leaving in opposite directions but Tai and Jaune grabbed their respective dates and started walking towards each other despite the minor struggle.

Raven:Nooo!

Yang:This is not the quality time I imagined!

Jaune and Tai: But it’s gonna be hilarious!!!

Raven and Yang:For you!!!

And it was! Jaune and Tai started chatting immediately while mother and daughter were red with embarrassment.

Yang:….

Raven:…So, great minds think alike?

Yang:I wish I was dumb.

Raven:*slides drink* This will get you there.

Yang:!?

Raven:What? Your father isn’t watching. Your date stole him.

Yang:Yep, he does that. Men and women flock to him. It’s the dorky smile.

Raven:I think I know the one.

Tai:*laughing with Jaune*

Raven:*red* Glad to know apples do fall near cheers. You be good to him, or you’ll go through hell trying to get him back.

Yang:How’s that going? It looked well. Dad seemed happy.

Raven:Hope so. I’m in a dress! Heh, guess some sparks don’t fade though. I’m shocked he said yes to my date.

Yang:Be good to him this time. I want him home by nine; and no funny business! That’s my pride and joy you’re messing with.

Raven:Hehe, yes ma’am.

Yang:*smiles*

Tai:I think they’re getting along?

Jaune:Then our plan worked. A job well done. *raises glass*

Tai:A toast to old and new flames. Now then, let’s kick things up a notch. Think you can out dance me?

Jaune:Loser pays their tab. You’re either be a good dad and husband or I’ll look like a great boyfriend and potential son-in-law.

Tai:You’re so smart! I’m in!!! *runs to dance floor*

Jaune: *follows happily*

Raven:Our type is odd.

Yang:Our type is perfect.

#rwby #rwby dragonslayer #dragonslayerweek2022 #jaune arc #yang xiao long #taiyang xiao long #raven branwen #rwby phoenix

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linkbetweenlinksau · 1 year

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What are each of the links relationships to their respective Zelda’s? Friends? Lovers? Strangers? Enemies? Family?

I hope you’re ready for an essay cuz that’s what you’re gonna get!

Sky: his Zelda is his lover! Idk how I’m gonna do their relationship… cuz the Sky arc that I’ve been working on is outdated and doesn’t match the new story of lbl so that’s super complicated lol. But he worries over her constantly and gets nervous when they’re apart. Separation anxiety am I right?? Groose is his best friend and they mean the world to me guys. They’re both himbos but groose is at least a smart himbo so he keeps Sky safe from doing super stupid things. He’s also really good friends with everyone in skyloft! Tho he had some rough patches with some of them after the events of skord for reasons, he’s doing fine now! And Sky is kinda awkward around strangers. He’s friendly and curious around them but compared to skyloft he’s never met them before so he says and does weird stuff, but he’s also chill so it doesn’t matter all that much. And Sky doesn’t have a family. Gaepora is an honorary father figure but overall his family is dead. So rip. His enemies are dead now but they were the only people he hated.

Minish: he and his Zelda are very very close! Best friends! Minish cares a lot about her and her well-being. Minish is good friends with all the Minish and with his Malon! Now… I’m kinda stuck on the lovers thing… cuz idk if it’s right to have Minish with someone? He’s the same size as an 8 year old and I’ve been trying to at least make his face look more 17ish, but I might make him a little bit more muscular since he’s a blacksmith and is very strong, but idk if I’d even be comfortable having him be a couple with someone else. Idk. I’ll see how you guys feel about it tho. Minish struggles with strangers, they think he’s kinda strange cuz he’s built like an 8 year old but is actually 17. He’s nice enough to them and he tries to be friendly but overall he keeps to himself. The major enemy that has affected him terribly was Vaati. He was 8 when he faced Vaati and he almost died (Hylia was the reason why he lived), and then he faced Vaati again during Four Swords (he was the first four swords guy, the one that takes place after MC). So Vaati is a bad subject for him.and then the only family that’s alive is his grandfather and while he is strict and scary, Minish loves his grandpa and they’re very close.

Time: his relationship with Zelda is complicated, cuz the Zelda in the adult timeline was someone he was super close with and was also in love with, however the Zelda in the child timeline is not the same person he loved. They barely know each other, and while the Zelda is nice, Time doesn’t know how to talk to her, plus when he told her about Ganondorf, he was more focused on finding Navi, so he didn’t stick around for that long. But he does care a lot about her, after all her influence helped him in Majoras Mask. Time doesn’t really have any friends, he never had the motivation to rekindle the friendships he had after what had happened. The only reason why he’s with Talon and Malon is cuz Talon was nice enough to take care of him when he was sick and alone. Aaaand cuz of that he fell in love with Malon and was able to accept that the timeline he is in is one he’s gonna be in for the rest of his life. He loves Malon a lot and he tells her everything, Talon doesn’t believe everything he says (but he will with my dumb crack au lol). Time is pretty intimidating around strangers but really he’s just as intimidated as they are. With enemies… the major one he’s looking out for is the FD, everyone else is either dead or suffering the consequences of their actions.

Legend: his relationship with Zelda is also pretty complicated. They are very close and have a lot in common, however, Tulip really loves Legend, but he doesn’t know how he feels since he hasn’t moved on from Marin. He’s confused around Tulip to say the least. I haven’t played enough of Legend’s games to think of anything for friends lol. Every enemy he has is dead, but he’s still upset about Ganondorf and Aghahim (idk how to spell his name bruh) since they killed his uncle. And last but not least, he has no family left, his uncle was murdered right in front of him

Hyrule: I’m taking a lot of creative liberties with him lol. He and Peony are super close and Peony has a HUGE crush on him. Hyrule respects Rose, and she is a lot older than him but she’s still a good friend to him. Hyrule is good friends with that secret Moblin, and he overall is a lovable himbo so a lot of people like him. The biggest enemies are the monsters trying to sacrifice him to Ganondorf, but luckily Ganon is dead so he doesn’t worry about him (or does he???) and he does have a living family! He just doesn’t know them or remember them! And he hasn’t met them in this au so he doesn’t know that exist! This is just a personal headcanon of mine so you can ask about his fam like… later or on my main blog.

Twilight: he and Zelda have a rooough relationship. They’re both so different from each other and Nebula comes off as cold and blunt which drives Twi crazy. They only really got along when they needed to and because Midna was a mutual friend, but overall they don’t like each other all that much. I’d say twilight has some good friendships, except he’s been isolating himself from everyone, but the resistance still talk to him and he’s still best buds with Fado, and Illia is still his best friend. For lovers, he still loves Midna and hasn’t really thought about anyone else. He kinda felt pressured to get with Illia so he doesn’t end up with her since she deserves someone who loves her the same way she loves him. Twi is pretty kind to strangers, all I can say. All his enemies are dead and the biggest enemy he’s facing rn is heartbreak. And family. Ah. I love his family more than life itself. His biological family is not alive but he was adopted by Rusl and Uli and they are such doting parents who try to help him feel better about what happened and stuff. And Colin adores him still and Rela (his new baby sister) is a baby and doesn’t know what’s going on but yeah. I love his family and Twi loves his family too. He’s just struggling with life rn so he hasn’t been with them a whole lot.

Four: ok, all the colors care a lot for Lily, Green has a crush on her however the others just see her as a really good friend. They grew up together since Four’s mom died when he was 3 months old, and the king was kind enough to let him be raised with Lily while his father was working, so they’re super close. Red has a BIG crush on Erune (from the manga), Blue is too focused on his teenage angst rn and Vio just does not care about love atm so it’s really only Green and Red with crushes lol. I suppose after lbl they’ll have their own friends except for Blue (who again is going through teenage angst rn) but ye. Green is polite and kind to strangers, Red is happy and joyful around strangers, Vio is rude but respectful enough towards strangers, and Blue is just pissed off all the time so strangers are scared of him. Their main enemy is gone now so they’re just kinda dealing with the affects of the four sword rn. And lastly family, their father. My absolute beloved. Their father is a very strict and serious man but he’s very worrisome and doting over his children (and Lily too. He kinda looked after her when he father died). They look up to him and want his approval, mostly Blue is struggling with the relationship tho (I just have a lotta thoughts on Blue ok??)

Windy: he wants to get maaaaaarrieeeeeddddd to tetra cuz he loves her so much and is such a loveable ray of sun shine around her while she looks pissed off all the time and I ADORE them. Telink is TOP tier. Windy is good friends with everyone since he’s just so sweet and mature but also very goofy and fun and strangers adore him cuz he’s polite around them. The biggest enemies rn are just dumb pirates and stuff, but Ganondorf really affected him negatively, so that’s a guy he hates. And family! I’m kinda basing his relationship with Aryll on my relationship with my older brother. Aryll looks up to him and Windy just looks out for her. His relationship with grandma is good and he adores her very much. Now for my favorite character friggin LINEBECK. He BASICALLY adopted Windy and Aryll, and Windy loves him very much cuz he’s a father figure who was able to stay, since his other father figures kept dying, but Linebeck is here to stay so he loves being around him. He’s also pretty anxious about his well-being cuz you know, father figures are always dying. Actually Windy is very happy on the surface but he’s EXTREMELY anxious about everyone’s wellbeing and feels responsible for them constantly. So oof

Spirit: he and phantom have such middle school crushes on each other and they’re very close and are best friends and they mean the world to me cuz they are so frigging cute and chaotic and yeah. I don’t think Spirit has too many friends except for Phantom, Niko and Alfonzo but they’re more like mentor figures than anything and Phantom is his Zelda but yeah. He’s kind and respectable around strangers except with his mutism it’s hard for him and others to communicate with him, and some rude people don’t have the patience for him to write everything down. He doesn’t have any major enemies and he doesn’t have any family so there’s that.

Age: he and Rune are good friends, tho they had an awkward moment since Rune had a one sided love for him, but now they’re close friends. Age is close with the champions and they’re all just vibing together, plus we can’t forget his friendship with Impa! They’re bffs! His lover is Mipha and they are engaaaaged and he loves her very much and it’s cute. Age is very proper and polite so strangers respect him enough. And then enemies are just random monsters or rogue yiga clan members and he’s mostly annoyed by them at this point. And he might have a living family, but Nintendo won’t explore him or his life so we’ll see when totk comes out with his family. If they still refuse to explore his life then I’ll just go with some headcanons. I do know that he def has a grandfather and a little sister, but it’s unknown if his father is alive, but I like to think he is.

Wild: Wild cares a lot for Poppy, it’s mostly just an instinct in him to care about and protect her even tho he doesn’t remember her all that well. Wild is kinda doing his own thing and vibing and he’s good friends with a lot people, like Beedle, Teba, Riju, Sidon, and Yunobo, so he’s not entirely friendless minus the champions that… you know… died. He doesn’t have any lovers, he would love Poppy but he can tell that there’s something there that’s keeping it from happening, that being him not being the same person he was 100 years ago, that guy being the person Poppy did Love, so he doesn’t dwell on it too much. He just vibes. Wild is fun with strangers cuz he’s sarcastic, punny, and weird and people like that fhdkdbjdbdkdb. Wild’s major enemies are yiga who are still trying to kill him and stuff, and tho they’re annoying they are still a threat to him. I’m not gonna go too much into it since totk needs to come out but yeah. And the family situation? Yeah they’re def dead by now. Kass is kind enough to invite him over for dinner from time to time tho so he greatly appreciates that.

Warriors: he and Queen Zelda are always pining after each other but they don’t actually do anything about it so they’re just super awkward and flirty and it drives everyone crazy like just KISS already. But Queen is really the only person he can comfortably open up to, and same thing with her. Around each other, they aren’t tied to any status or anything, they’re just people, friends hanging out, so they care deeply for each other. Warriors has a lot of good friends but he’s not super close with them, but he wants to be, he just doesn’t know how to. He actually used to have a stutter but with Proxi there to speak for him and with other help he’s able to talk normally, but he’s still very anxious around people. My warriors isn’t very smooth or confident he just looks pissed all the time but is socially anxious lol. He’s just like Time fr. He is good friends with Impa and Lana tho and he misses the people from different eras. His biggest enemies are dead however one major enemy that is still alive is Cia, who is really the only person he despises, but Cia doesn’t at all remember the details of what she did, so his hatred towards her is confusing for him cuz is it ok for him to hate her so much? She doesn’t remember anything and she’s good now so should he just move on? But yeaaah it’s a rough situation. And the only living family member is Linkle! His twin sister who he did not remember existing. They’re close enough, he gets annoyed with her sometimes but he still cares about her

#asks #oh my gosh that was so much #that’s what you get for asking me a very specific and fun question /lh #brushing over the enemies cuz most of them are dead #I’m focusing on one’s who are still alive or still had a focus on them #*affect #not focus #or effect?#bro idk #I’m tired bdkdbdkd #lbl chain #sorry none of this makes sense I just kinda went at it lol #gosh I really hope we can get a focus on Wild and his personality in totk #I’m so sick of it all being focused on Zelda #give him some love too #in the Japanese version they do give him some personality but not in the English version which sucks :(#but regardless I want more content in totk for Link #anyways

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greggorylee · 2 years

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thinking about Berdley’s parents and his home life bc i dont think that it’s talked about enough when analyzing his character

he descibes himself as "forgettable" at an ALARMINGLY young age, the sprites of him and noelle during the bee couldn't be more than 12 and are likely younger. this doesnt come from nowhere, and sure, he could have been bullied, i find it far more likely that his parents were the ones setting these expectations on him. he might even have a learning disability of some sort that made it hard for him to adapt to school at first without noelle's help, and i know first hand that growing up with that kind of struggle in school will make your shitty parents tell you that you're dumb and forgettable. the way he treats everyone else as below him because theyre "stupid" is definitely a learned behavior, and very likely the way his parents treated him until he won the spelling bee and met their expectations of him to be "smart" and successful in school, etc.

this is backed up even more by how berdley reacts to Queen. queen is a mirror to berdley's mother just as much as she mirrors noelle's mother. you can tell by the way berdley is basically DESPERATE to squeeze even a SINGLE compliment out of her, even if its not earnest on her part. i dont think that he's oblivious to the way queen feels about him. i think that he's used to, if not incredibly familiar with this behavior. this is why he keeps pushing and pushing and pushing to prove himself for just an ounce of approval from an adult mother figure. its instinct at this point after years of being traumatized into thinking his only worth was his academic achievements. like, the dude has been emotionally strangled for his whole childhood probably.

which is also why hes so exuberant that he'd be "accepted even if he's stupid". because he's been pretending to be that gifted child and struggling to actually meet that image when he literally just cant, and needs help to do so. the idea of being accepted despite not actually being a genius, having been seen as someone who is slow to learn and shown that that doesn't make him automatically flawed... that means a lot more to him than some people might think. you see him immediately cheer up and start being vulnerable and accepting help and connecting with others. i genuinely cant wait to see his growth through the game, at least i hope that toby will give him and the rest of these kids the arcs they deserve and like this doesnt excuse his bullying or arrogant behavior, but i think its an aspect that a lot of people overlook when analyzing his character. but if you know the signs of a child raised with unhealthy expectations, they are ALL OVER berdley, and its impossible to ignore

#deltarune #berdley #child abuse

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jjtheresidentbaby · 2 years

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Rating Stranger Things Ships

(I’ve seen so many people do this so I wanted to)

(Some of these don’t have ship names as I can’t remember them or just can’t spell sheubeud)

(Btw feel free to send in any asks you have any these or just want me to talk more abt them)

- Byler 8/10- I love them but I understand the people who don’t. Honestly before season 4 Will and Mike were low on the favorite character tower, they were basically at the bottom actually. But I love Will in season 4 and season 4 Mike is so good to me (even if he’s oblivious). Also them being absolute idiots when they start dating is canon, just little whispers back and forth, Mike crushing will in his sleep, wills constant need to do laundry bc Mike drools in his sleep, Mike posing funny for paintings, Will getting his picture taken by Mike every five seconds- just awe

- Mileven- 4/10- Eh. I didn’t even like them in 1&2 so there isn’t much to say, I think season 3 showed some cute moments and the part in the pizza place in 4 was so cute to me. I don’t really love the idea of them staying together but I get peoples liking to them

- Jopper- 10/10- I mean come on, the best, love them, they need to get married and move in together

- Jancy- 5/10- I loved them in 1&2 but three ruined them, it was just so bad and then 4 on top of that proves they need to break up. It’s that thing where the build up is way better than the actual thing, they just aren’t it and some of their fans get crazy so it makes me dislike the ship even more

- Stancy- 8/10- my loves <3, would be a 10/10 if steve didn’t do that billboard sign thing in 1. Steve being a housewife while Nancy is out making the money sounds like heaven to me. Lovers to enemies to friends to lovers again trope give me (I know they weren’t really enemies but shush) (also if anyone tells me Steve would force Nancy to have kids, fuck off and shut up, disrespectfully)

- Steddie- 3/10- IM SORRY!!! They just got so much hype and for what?? I don’t hate them or anything but they do nothing for me. They’re just eh. Meh. Bleh. Bland I guess

- Ronance- 6/10- I could see it and I could get behind it but it’s not like my otp or anything. They are super adorable and I love seeing fanart for them so yeah, good ship just not my fav

- Jargyle- 10/10- if you don’t think they’re gay you’re just plain dumb. Stoner bfs for life

- Stonathan- 8/10- need I say more? Steve and Johnathan? Yeah. Yup. 1&2 just make them have the best enemies to lovers arc known to man

- Steve x Johnathan x Argyle- 10/10- I feel like this is self explanatory but yeah them, them over so many

Steve x Johnathan x Argyle x Nancy -11/10- YES I NEED IT!!! It’d solve every single problem ever!! Omg I would sob so bad if I ever found a fic of them

- Stoncy- 10/10- one of my favorite ship of the older kids. They’d be perfect and having Robin third wheel at all times is great, they are everything to me. The three of them in 2 makes me feral

- Lumax- 10/10- how can it not be a 10/10??? It’s perfcet!! Max is so great for Lucas and Lucas is so great for max!! I love them!! Would die for both of them <3

- Elumax- 10/10- give it to me now!! They’d be so fucking adorable and just so pure. I’d die for the three of them

- Elmax- 9/10- add Lucas and boom 10/10, I’m a sucker for these two together though and that mall scene remains one of my favorites out of the whole show

- Byclair- 5/10- okay so I see potential but it’s nothing I’m actively thinking about a lot, they’d be cute tho

- Madwheeler- 7/10- id pay money for them to be together in a different universe where they’re snarky sarcastic partners that shit on everyone and love doing it!! Their relationship would make me giggle and I know it. They have actual potential for enemies to lovers but just not canon cause y’know Lucas is <3

- Wheelclair- 8/10- yup I see it and I love it. Nerdy broody boyfriend with jock teasing boyfriend?? Yup. They’d be so smart together don’t even lie, also Lucas teaching Mike how to play basketball is a must. Them skipping hellfire to make out- yup! Mm them <3

- Dustin x Suzie 4/10- okay I like season 4 them as Suzie is a queen but season 3 made me annoyed a bit, like girl shut up about a song when the worlds collapsing

- Henderhop - 6/10- I can see it and they’d be adorable but I wish they had more interactions in the show. Like yes they’d be adorable but I have a hard time picturing it with how little I can think of them that relates to actual scenes

- Lucas x Dustin - 5/10- I see it okay but they just meh for me, like season 1 them yeah but I much prefer max and Lucas

- Dustin x Max- 2/10- I remember rooting for Lucas when watching 2 for the first time and my points still stand, it wouldn’t work out good and I know it. Max is too mature (?that sounds mean but I can’t think of another word) for Dustin and it’d crumble so fast

- Will x Lucas- 5/10- okay yeah I can see it but I think it falls into the category of the not enough screen time together for me to get a good visual of how it would play out

- anything with Billy- 0/10- he’s racist and abusive stop trying to pretend he isn’t

#jj rambles #stranger things #lumax #elumax #stancy #jancy #jopper #byler #henderhop #madwheeler #byclair #stoncy #stonathan #jargyle #ronance #steddie #mileven #wheelclair

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cool-unlikelyfancollection-blog · 8 months

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Ataru: But if were going to die here, there’s something I need to get off my chest… I do not care for Ranma 1/2.

Lum and Shinobu: What?!

Mendo: How can you even say that?!

Ataru: I really didn’t care for it.

Shinobu: It’s the best manga/anime Rumiko has ever made!

Ataru: Look, I know that everyone says that but-

Lum: Well, I think that’s a bit of an exaggeration but it’s a really good series, darling. It has so many wonderful characters like Ranma, Akane-

Shinobu: SHAMPOO!

Ataru: Look look, they’re all perfectly fine characters but I still don’t like the series that much.

Mendo: Well, why don’t you like the series that much?

Ataru: The story is boring!

Shinobu: What do you mean boring?!-

Ataru: It’s about Ranma who get cursed by being a girl, that’s it!

Lum: But I thought you like curses and stuff, darling.

Ataru: Yeah, when they’re actually fun, but this, this just makes me die of boredom!

Shinobu: Well, what about the other characters like Ryoga or Happosai?

Ataru: Oh, you mean the creepy small old man that always steals some panties?! Cause you know, that something we want to see in a 90s anime, am I right?! It’s just, I didn’t even bothered finishing the series due to how boring it is!

Lum: Darling, it’s not really fair to judge a series if you haven’t finished it yet-

Ataru: I tried many times to find the time to finish the series but I just can’t! I only stopped at the OVAs!

Shinobu: But their OVAs are great!

Mendo: Kuno is a handsome devil that must be protected!

Ataru: We just keep going back and forth and back and forth and it’s so tedious!

Lum: It’s really not big of a deal.

Ataru: I thought the final OVA were weird but this!?

Lum: You didn’t like the final OVA?!!

Ataru: Why was the OVA based on a regular dumb arc instead of the last final ?!!!

Mendo: But Ataru, it takes years to make more seasons.

Ataru: it’s just a flimsy excuse to make fans ragequits!

Shinobu: It’s called patients, which is something I bet you wouldn’t understand about, you flirting, perverted idiot!!

Ataru (sarcastically): Oh, I’m so sorry, I didn’t know having an opinion would hurt your little feelings!

Shinobu: I bet you’re also dumb enough to like Inuyasha, aren’t you!

Ataru: It’s a perfectly fine series!

Shinobu: You wanna talk about fans ragequits! Oh, boy that is the king of ragequitting fans!

Ataru: You hate it because it’s different!

Shinobu: No I hate it cause I’m a smart girl!

Mendo: Is it just me or the water stop rising?

Lum: I mean Shinobu has a point, it seems like a double standard if you’re gonna keep criticizing Ranma 1/2 but yet you keep praising Inuyasha.

Ataru: …I like Rinne. That’s my response to this statement.

Shinobu: Of course-

Ataru: Well, there you go.

Lum: oh god…

…

Mendo: I like Rinne too.

#urusei yatsura #ranma 1/2 #inuyasha #kyoukai no rinne #ataru moroboshi #lum invader

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accursedkaleeshi · 2 years

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Anonymous asked:

write the firewalls fic you Horde-playing coward /lh --Solstice

Solstice asked about a fic idea I had. I don’t usually have the brain wiring to commit to full fics so I have just been informally summarizing them. I have had a couple other asks & ideas like this so I am going to call them Bullet Point Fics. Will make a post to link them later

This Bullet Point Fic ended up being fulfillment of some need I have for my fucked up blorbos to be witnessed & validated by other characters in the full glory of just how physically destroyed they are & how they are dealing. So I am calling it the:

“Damn, Bitch, You Live Like This?” BPF

Synopsis: General Grievous becomes aware of another of many Separatist security measures installed in his own systems to control him. I rewrite the Clone Wars Gungan episode & force (hah) the Jedi to realize Grievous used to be a person. Highlights include Disaster lineage shenanigans, Grievous roasting everyone at any given opportunity, body horror, Dooku Drama™, & a whole lot of unfathomable sadness. Last update 2k words

Prologue

· In a moment of lucidity, Grievous takes stock of what technical systems he has access to & some things he does not. Knowing me, there would be like 5 pages right out the gate waxing poetic about his relationship with technology.

· Grievous noclips through the very particular firewalls put on his tracking systems specifically to keep him out of them because he was being nosy.

· The goths Sith are alerted. There are consequences for his actions.

· Made to attend a Separatist HR meeting about it where they talk about him like he’s a new car & not even there. Wat Tambor is being weird. Grievous can’t tell if it is usual Wat Weird or not bc he has had some drugs forced upon him in Dooku & Poggle’s attempt to make him forget that he found the tracking signals.

o Sorry. Just. Imagined the Separatist council bitching in a conference room & Grievous is just standing behind Dooku with dilated pupils wishing he was dead. Wat Tambor keeps making eye contact that he is not registering as weird.

· Grievous was kind of used to being in altered states by then & he remembers much more than the Separatists even know about. Except Dooku, they said all kinds of shit around him bc they thought of him as a droid. Wat Tambor dropped the name of the new encryption tech they were going to use.

· The general continues doing general things, playing dumb when it suits him. He is an Olympic gold medalist at playing dumb, maneuvering around xenophobes & the like that think he is far beneath them.

Our Least Favorite Clone Wars Episode

· Later: The main characters manage to be nice enough to the gungans that they agree to help them make a Sombra Ult EMP bomb with their very limited & precious booma plasma. (I hate star wars bc I spent minutes of my life on the wiki looking for what the bombs were called just for them to be called boomas)

· Alternative “Shadow Warrior” episode timeline things would occur wherein they have a hard time keeping Grievous locked down. He is not deterred by being in a giant bubble underwater & is generally being a huge pain in the ass. Deadpan threatens to fry Boss Nass with citrus & scallops.

· Padmé gets a development arc. Convinces Anakin not to chase down the turn coat gungan (Rishi Loo, I think). She’s like “The general of the ENTIRE opposing galactic army is traumatizing Gunga city waiting for his ride out. We can’t let the Count come in here with an army to pick up his machine & make a mess of Naboo, right?” Anakin is like “you’re so smart, babe.”

o Padme’s development includes trying to be diplomatic to Grievous even though he is scary to stand in front of. Grievous is a bitch about it & picked up on anidala quickly bc he’s not fucking blind. Padme chastises him for being unprofessional & he sort of concedes for the time being. Unclear if out of any actual respect or just bc he thinks its funny.

· Anakin slaps together a big brain comms jammer that reroutes all military comms in the area to one predetermined channel & is very proud of himself until he notices there is still a signal coming from Grievous & he’s like “Hey, wtf man, turn that off”

o Grievous is like “BOY do I look-?? I can’t. Turn it off yourself if you are so clever.”

· They try to be lowkey about shoving General goddamn Grievous in a surface vessel & getting him to their ship. (“Gooden riddance! Bigum Bot barely fitten in de bongo!”) They can only circle space awkwardly until the signal is cut. Because Dooku was definitely coming to pick up his dog.

We’ve Got a Runner

· Grievous debated on whether he would rather deal with Dooku or deal with, ugh, Jedi. He’s already been thoroughly disgraced today. & Dooku was definitely getting flak from Sidious about losing his war machine to gungans. Grievous has a yolo-synapse misfire & tells Anakin about the firewall encryption.

· Anakin is a huge nerd about it. He knows what it is & has been keeping up with whatever bits of public development he could find about this same encryption.

· Kenobi calls & is like “What is happening, why did I get a call from Jar Jar that was just wailing in terror??” in the middle of Anakin hacking the world on this old fucking monitor bc he wasn’t about to hook Grievous up directly to their ship.

· “Master! I don’t know why this smart-refrigerator gave you such a hard time. I caught him the first time out, with the gungan’s help! They gave us the blue bombs for getting rid of him.” Kenobi dies a little inside.

· “But uh, the Count is coming with back up & I am trying to turn off the good general’s parental lock before he gets to us. You gotta meet us somewhere. Everything is under control but holy kriff make sure you guys have something to contain this thing- GOT IT okay bye!”

· They go to land on some nearby little system just out of the way enough to not have tourists. Anakin reasoned that every time they tried to capture Grievous in space, one or more ships were totaled. Theoretically it would be safer to do it terrestrially? Especially with Padme on board.

· Of course, as soon as their shuttle began skimming to park Grievous was like “bye”, kicked out the landing gear, & straight dropped himself out of a moving ship like a crackhead.

· Kenobi & some of his 212th show up to help corral Grievous who, for a giant bone white cyborg, is moving very quickly through tall alien grasses like that Jurassic park scene. Even more Republic reinforcements show up led by Yoda & Windu. Plo & the wolfpack have brought Ahsoka & the 501’st arc troopers bc they would be damned to miss actually catching General Grievous.

· In the ensuing skirmish Grievous:

o Surprises & injures multiple jedi, killing one

o Surprises, injures, & kills many clones

o Gets various bits blown off of him under sustained LAAT gunship fire

o Takes a rocket to the head seams, blasting off the end of his face plate & cracking it up the side

· The wolf pack is finally like “We got this” & distract Grievous while Rex & Ahsoka arm & launch one of the Gungan EMPS directly on him.

· Grievous, who was in the middle of moving, just kind of takes a dive. There is a dramatic pause. Fives is like “Hell yeah!” Grievous gets back up. Fives is like “Hell no!”

o Grievous is still trying to leave kill crush destroy escape. Kenobi is like “pls. can u not just stop. Just stop for five minutes, I’m begging you general”

· Plo Koon does a drive by in his starfighter, dropping the heaviest, probably illegal, electro-net he could get his claws on.

o Grievous thinks “this mf just drop a net on me?” but the reason it is probably illegal in the Republic is that the weights at the edges start rumbling & G is like “oh”. The weights crash together at one point & catch one of Greivous’ feet in them.

· After all that Scooby-doo level cat & mouse they finally manage to get Grievous more or less contained in on a Republic cruiser with a lot of industrial grade cable & a lot of jedi.

o Imagine the awkward transport LAAT ride standing next to Grievous like the galaxy’s most pissed off lobster net.

The Medical Drama

· After the cruiser hyper jumps tf out of there the cool kids of the Jedi Council (& maybe Ki-adi Mundi just so I can roast him for no reason) make it a point to gather in the room with the pissed off cyborg. Very scared clone troopers keep having to control his limbs. (Except Cody & Wolf, who have been waiting for this moment their whole lives)

· It’s hard for them to stay in the room bc he is just radiating anguished rage into the force like a sun. He’s feral & fucked up looking from shenanigans. Pieces of him are twisted or missing, covered in blaster carbon. Half of one of his chest plates has been cleanly cut off diagonally by Yoda’s saber. He’s pissed off like a cornered animal & his body language reads as such.

· They’re all just kind of standing there trying to look hard when Yoda steps forward. Grievous wrenches forward with all the psi his pistons have & snatches the little bastard off the floor in both/all hands.

· Ahsoka hit him with another EMP from hell. The entire cruiser stalled. Ahsoka was like “My bad, I panicked.” All the lights died & were replaced with half a dozen lightsabers pointed at Grievous, still clutching Yoda with a death grip, as he convulsed, froze, & then jolted again. His eyes lost some edge somewhere in that full body reset protocol

· Yoda wrapped his little gremlin hands around the edges of the back of his faceplate & is like “Super fucked up, you are. Tired, you are.” Grievous goes down. The cruiser powers back up.

· Kenobi, whom is very perturbed by this entire situation, is like “How did you do that? You think we haven’t tried that? He never even flinched before. We couldn’t pierce the anger with any suggestions.”

· Yoda troll shrug. “Disrupted perhaps, a mechanism was?”

· Anakin is helpful, “He said the tracking chip was in his head case. If we can destroy it, the Separatist’s goons can’t get the tracker back online. Honestly… shouldn’t we just put him out of his misery?”

· Half of the jedi are like “He do be fuckt up tho”. The rest are like “He has to have a trial or we forfeit our values”. But they all agreed he must have hella information. Anakin is suddenly urgent about it, realizing that if the Sith can wirelessly back access systems in Grievous they could potentially corrupt or wipe him.

· What if he self-destructs? Is that a thing, holy shit?? We did not think this through. As usual. We have to remove his wireless access point (das a wap omg). Anakin is the best mechanic on this cruiser so he followed the procession of jedi & clones dragging 300 lbs of deadweight to the medical bay.

· The medical bay, which was otherwise filled with the people Grievous had just injured & killed, was not thrilled. Nevertheless they would spare a very polite, very nervous medical droid.

· Yoda, Windu, & Kenobi remained as well as Cody & Rex. They were concerned about the logistics of containing Grievous should he wake up. All the other logistics were also proving a challenge.

· The general being propped up with more or less a pallet jack from cargo (much to the disdain of the head nurse) Anakin just sort of went for it. He’d opened up plenty of droids & speeders. Where would one fit a satellite tag on this thing? On the motherboard. Well where is everything plugged into on this?

· Probably several paragraphs of Anakin (& perhaps the medical droid having a droid crush) admiring the design until he tentatively turns the module at center of either side of Grievous’ head like a volume dial & the rest of his faceplate pops off & clatters to the floor. Anakin pauses like a kid caught breaking something until he looks over at Obi-Wan.

· Kenobi had picked the faceplate off the floor & was looking at what was left of the general’s organic face with that weathered concerned look he got on his face when he didn’t have time to unpack how upsetting something was. He did rhetorically mutter, “Oh, general, what did they do to you…” (🥺)

· Anakin doesn’t really want to look. He’d spent this whole war thinking of Grievous as a giant battle droid. He’d just spent the last several minutes trying to puzzle off pieces of him while the medical droid’s arms flitted around them measuring & attaching things.

[To be continued. with disgust, will he wake up, & more body horror]

#drabble #sw fic

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sapphirerubycreates · 1 year

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Anti Spy arc, part 2

AU: Missed Messages

Summary: in which Anti attempts to gain more information about Marvin’s crush in the worst way possible: trying to date her. And it does not go well.

Word count: 1322

content warning: stalking

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First week in February, Saturday, Marvin’s senior year

There were three or four checkered items/skeletons/flags he’d dug up. But that was online records. And he wanted to find her current red flags. Behaviors Marvin couldn’t tolerate. Behavior that would eventually lead to heartbreak.

The best way Anti could think to observe what she would be like would be to date her himself– well, go on dates; not like he actually wanted to date her and hurt Marvin like that. Dating, however, was the quickest way someone would open up and spill their soul to someone else. Of course, he would have to disguise himself for this plan to even work. And since it was transient, he needed a temporary spell. Talismans were easier than timed spells or candling burning timers or a temporary tattoo. The trickiest part was deciding what he should look like. Ended up taking reference from a character she’d posted about on her blog.

The only thing he didn’t plan was how to ask her out. Today, she was on the main floor of the Union. All the tables had people at them. He couldn’t stare at her from across the way like last time since perception could be skewed with such a crowd. There was an indent in the hall wall, a little bench enclave. He sat there, laid there, fiddled with the talisman that was his necklace, trying to gleam some words as if there was actually a different personality in there that could talk to him. Should have cast a charm spell on himself just to be sure this’d work. But no, he was here, trying to think of suave openers. It didn’t help he’d never done this seriously before.

And when he could no longer stand thinking, he got up and just started walking over to Robin. He’d just wing it, like most things. So, when he got over to her, he opened his mouth. What came out was the most aggressively chill “Hey.”

She looked up at him. When she wasn’t immediately taken aback by his appearance, Anti started to wonder if he’d picked the right face. “Do I know you?”

“Uh, no. No. I’m Will. The guy who’s spent the last half hour trying to work up the courage to ask the pretty girl her name.”

She blushed. That was good at least. “I’m Robin,” she extended her hand.

“Good to meet ya,” Anti shook enthusiastically. “What you working on?” He took a seat across the table from her.

“Uh, Capstone?”

“Capstone, huh. What’s your project?”

“Umm, a quantitative tool to track strength and range of motion. It’ll be used to help track progress of physical therapy patients.”

“Woah, Beautiful, smart, and compassionate. Next you’re gonna say you spend part of your weekend helping care for homeless puppies,” he smiled warmly at her. At least his over embellished compliment got a genuine smile and small laugh out of her. She glanced down and tucked her hand behind her ear. Maybe this would be easy. Play dumb and pay compliments. Seems all girls were that simple.

“No, no, I don’t. And I uh, I have to get back to work, Will.”

“That’s fine, totally get it. But, I want to get to know you a bit better. Maybe over lunch?”

“... listen–”

“Or, not today. Maybe tomorrow, or sometime later this week? Just–” Anti dug his phone out from his pocket– “put your number in, and we can make a plan.” Her hesitation scared him.

“Will. I’m, sure you’re a decent guy. But I’m not interested.”

“Then just as friends, for now.”

She closed her lips and breathed once. “I don’t want to. Now, I’m asking nicely, can you please leave?”

“Just one conversation.” Anti reached across and grabbed her hand, needing this plan to work. “You–”

She recoiled, taking her hand back. “I SAID NO!” Wow, she really did have a set of lungs on her. It felt like people were starting to stare at them now. “Please. Leave.”

Dissatisfied, Anti stood up in a huff, shoved his phone away, and stormed off. He entered the bathroom and just stared at himself in the mirror. It was a good face. A kind face. A face she should have liked and said yes to.

He couldn’t look at it. And suddenly, his fist had collided with the mirror. Broken shards scattered his reflection. His knuckles were red and starting to prick with blood. First time in a while he’d seen blood from hitting something. But seeing the cracks... he wasn’t better. Huffing, he drew a small symbol on his left palm. Then he waved it across the fracture, uttering such dumb words “Wish I could turn back ti-i-ime,” to make the spell work. The cracks started repairing themselves until the mirror was back to normal and he clearly saw the face that wasn’t his. The face that couldn’t do its only job.

His face was still red and hot, annoyed at his failure, but at least he didn’t feel like boiling over anymore. There were other ways to get her to talk. Friendly-ish ways. Ways that probably wouldn’t involve changing into someone else. And of course, other less friendly ways. But he’d do his best not to use those.

Maybe he could play into the stalker brother angle from last time? Go and comfort her after what had just happened. If he could get her to open up about this bad experience, maybe he could get other things too.

Ripping the necklace off, Anti felt a little relieved to see his own features again. With a quick teleport home to change and back, he was ready to put Plan B into action. The only problem? Robin had left her table and was nowhere in sight. Using his phone, he pulled up her location. Seemed she was on the move through campus. She was near a building though. So, going to a dead-empty part of the hallway, he teleported on top of the closet building. There were more people than he’d expected walking around; smart choice not to popup next to her.

Within a few seconds, he’d spotted Robin; she was on her phone. This was great! Anti pulled out his bluetooth headphones, pointed a finger at her phone, then made his own little link so he could hear the conversation.

But he paused when he heard the voice on the other side. “Where are you?” She... she called him?

“I’m, just, walking through campus because I can’t trust he’s not following me and wouldn’t follow me home.” Anti continued roof-hopping as she kept walking, trying to keep decent quality sound.

“Who even is this creep?”

“I, I don’t know. I just, I don’t feel safe.”

“Well, just get inside a building. I’ll come to you. Don’t hang up until I get there, okay?”

“Mm. Okay. I’m uh, I’m sorry that I interrupted your Sunday for my, insecurity.”

“No, hey. I don’t mind. It’s what friends do.” There was some paper shuffling. “I’m sorry you had to go through that.”

“Mm. Thanks. I’m uh, at the gym.”

“Are you inside yet?”

“No, steps. How soon can I expect you?”

“Uh.... Within the minute. I’m going to mute myself, but keep talking.”

“Yeah, sure. Um...” There was the sound of a door creaking. “I really do appreciate you even just being on the phone. And um, maybe I can treat you to some sushi after this. Or pizza. Cause uh, um, I need to pay you back. And I’m only rich in FoodBucks. So– jeez! Don’t just, suddenly appear like that!” The call ended.

This wasn’t his plan at all. This would just drive Marvin closer to her, which maybe wasn’t a bad thing. But he still didn’t know her well enough.

He did learn three things at least. One, she was polite. Two, she scared (or maybe spooked) easy. Three, she was a runner.

#jse egos #jacksepticeye egos #soft!anti #antisepticeye #marvin the magnificent #jse fanfiction #oc robin #sapphirerubywrites #missed messages au

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dearemilia · 3 years

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I'm lowkey curious

what if the Toman gang meet makima!reader who is a gang leader and the boys are TERRIFIED of the reader?

WITH A MAKIMA! FEM! READER WHO IS A GANG LEADER

Toman

NOTE: I might do a part 2 with Rokuhara of this!! <33 Thank you for requesting anon, have a nice day/night! <3

TAGS/NOTES: FEM! Reader, mentions of manipulation [from reader], violence, weapons, profanity, no devil things <3, y/n is toxic, suggestive, yandere-ish [?], Slight Chainsaw Man manga spoilers and Black Dragon and Tenjiku arc spoilers!! I apologize if the characters are OOC. Stay safe and healthy everyone! <3

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➩ Everyone has heard of you, rumors say people who challenged you either die or became dogs under your control.

➩ Its the fact that you manage to capture a lot of gang’s attention, the Haitani brothers, Black Dragons, and even Toman.

➩ Though, people have heard that you are someone who is hard to impress.

➩ As for Toman, they’ve fought some of your dogs and its already obvious that your dogs lost which disappointed you but also excited you.

➩ Finally, you get to meet the Invincible Mikey.

➩ Since Mikey has a thing for not hitting girls, you thought to yourself of how easy its going to be making them fall for you.

➩ Except for Mucho and Sanzu who are going to take a little while.

➩ But you don’t mind! That’s what makes it fun <3

➩ You ended up knocking out Mikey which shocked everyone but then you acted so friendly and kind around them.

➩ Stating how even if you won the fight, you’ll still take care of Mikey.

➩ Draken was skeptical, everyone was but they way you touched them, telling them its okay and with the way you patted their heads is so enchanting.

➩ Mikey woke up and was shock to see you.

➩ He blushed after realizing he lost to a fight with you but more over, he’s shock that he’s laying on your lap while you caresses his cheek, running your hands through his locks.

➩ You offered him a warm smile and some dorayaki.

➩ Mikey looks around to see the Toman members playing around. They all took turns on playing with your dogs “What the fuck just happened...?” Mikey turned to you.

➩ You chuckled and handed him dorayaki which he took and ate.

➩ “Feel better, Mikey?” You whispered in his ears, causing him to turn bright red from the close contact as he nods.

➩ After all of that, you and Mikey agreed to be allies. However, due to your bad reputation. You had to gain their trust.

➩ You’ve already gotten Emma and Mikey’s trust just by being there for them and within a short time.

➩ They were already so obedient to you <3

➩ Next is Draken.

➩ Since he doesn’t have parents, you acted as a mother to him. You let him cry on your shoulder and you even teach him things.

➩ Which he is really grateful for.

➩ If he needs anything, he can just go to you! <3

➩ Mitsuya was a bit hard because he’s wary around you but he soon he warmed up to you after he saw how much you cared for his friends and sisters.

➩ Baji may be dumb academically, though he is smart when it comes to reading people.

➩ But of course! You’re the [Name], the control devil, is what people call you.

➩ Baji and Chifuyu are so attracted to your words and affection that they crave for more.

➩ Hakkai was easy for you.

➩ You didn’t care about his lies and his brother. You don’t mind him ranting to you. In fact, it just shows how much he trusts you.

➩ Pah-Chin and Peh-Yan used to hate you for criticizing their gang but after everything you’ve done.

➩Like, helping them win and even buying them things. They soon trusted you.

➩ The Kawata twins are so adorable in your eyes.

➩ “Fucking Finally! Someone other than Mucho gets it!” Nahoya loves you! He’s so glad that someone thinks as he thinks “People are so soft nowadays” You chuckled while playing with his hair.

➩ Souya is shy with you, not because you’re a women but because he’s terrified of you.

➩ “Souya, sweetie, I’m not going to bite you, okay?” Souya slowly nods his head, looking away so you won’t see his blushing face.

➩ As for Mucho and Sanzu...Oh dear, you put so much work into gaining their trust and respect.

➩ At first, yeah, Mucho didn’t like you even going as far to ignoring you.

➩ The boys are really loyal and devoted to you so it makes them mad that someone dares to betray you.

➩ Takemichi didn’t want to fall for your trap but when you helped him with everything.

➩ He couldn’t help but fall for you [not in a romantic way!!]

➩ That one scene of Makima placing Denji’s hand on her boob is you and Takemichi.

➩ The boys go as far to beating people up if they ever disobey you.

➩ If you are ever disappointed at any of them, they get really upset. They would do anything to make you not upset at them.

➩ Sanzu seems to be interested in you after seeing so many people fall for you. So after getting your phone number, he called you for a secret meeting to which you agreed.

➩ “Alright darling! Come in one hour, okay?” With that you met him at your apartment.

➩ He told you about how he’s skeptical of Mucho and needs your help “Oh my, I never knew of this” You acted surprised.

➩ You told Sanzu that you have always been suspicious of Mucho and you knew about Sanzu’s scars, so you took this opportunity to take him under your control.

➩ You asked Sanzu why he wore a mask and he said that he’s not comfortable telling you that.

➩ “Sanzu, you know that your scars are beautiful, right? You don’t have to hide them” Sanzu trusts you, so he slowly opens his mask. You smiled in delight “See, your scars show who you are” You embraced him in your arms as he wrapped his arms around your waist.

➩ He feels...Comfortable with you.

➩ Meanwhile, you smiled because you know that you have Sanzu under your control.

➩ You send Sanzu weapons, like guns and chains if he needs to get his hands dirty.

➩ Sanzu will do anything for you so you sometimes send him to mission that requires killing people.

➩ The boys are terrified of you whenever they try disagreeing with your plans.

➩ They really don’t want to disappoint you so even if it means getting their hands bloody.

➩ They’ll do what ever it takes for you to reach your goal.

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kyberphilosopher · 3 years

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Sea Green

Hal cheers up his puppy love. Word Count: 1921

Warnings: it’s shorter than my other stuff, Hal is sorta my headcanoned canon version, and it’s a bit fluffy. Oh, and it’s not proof read.

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So, it turns out that smart people had limits. A shocking discovery that you had been responsible for revealing today- not purposely, on a mission in front of everyone. Well, not everyone in the world. Nor everyone in the Justice League. Just like, four of them. So basically all of them.

It really wasn’t your fault. Batman wouldn’t shut up about something you can’t even remember, got into your head, and long story short, there’s an underground train station in Metropolis right now just filled with debris. What had you said at the end of it again?

“Ta-Da!”

What you had done was widely regarded as a bad move.

Oh, man, you think. Dumb Batman. Dumb, dumb Batman.

Your right leg moves up and down as it bends, bumping against the metal crate box you sit on as it swings back a few times. Back hunched over, head dipped down as your hands fumble in your lap, you look like an immature and bummed child. That’s certainly how you feel. But, you’re not. Bummed? Yes. But not immature.

You are mature. Very calm, and collected, and capable. You take care of yourself just fine. But because you’re young and funny and that one time you walked in on Wonder Woman using the toilet which resulted in giggling, the Justice League members were so hesitant to use you. They call you a kid, just for having humor. That’s all it is. Humor. Everything you say you will do, gets done. Your bills, taxes, schooling, missions... Screw Batman.

A huff escapes from the back of your windpipe, like a rumbling choke and scratch. Your head rolls backward, exposing your throat as your eyes slip closed. Maybe, if you’re lucky, one of the cargo crates strung from the ceiling with slip and fall on top of you right now. That would be a killer origin story for your villain arc.

“Hey.”

You recognize that voice. Your neck pulls your head to the side lazily to face him, peeping one eye open. “Yeah?” you drawl.

Hal allows his boots to sink from levitation to the concrete below, almost silently. The green of his suit reflects from the little light in the room, creating soft glints that compliment the pale glow of his eyes. “I was just comin’ to check on you.”

Ha. Typical Hal. He does this fairly frequently, actually. He’s always got a way of finding you when you’re alone, though this only extends to when you’re in the cave or the fortress. Since the League really just has an eye on you and you’re not actually a member, none of them know where you live. You’re not even sure they know your actual name. Hal’s check-ins become so regular when you’re by yourself that you wonder if he would show up to your apartment if he could. Shocking, considering Hal comes across as either overwhelmingly charming or overwhelmingly douchey to most people.

You’re not sure why he shows up to help you. It’s not even really helping. It’s just every time the rest of the League is having a meeting or a party or something, and you wander off to some other room because everyone knows they don’t need you, he and his Green Lantern appears minutes later for some company. Almost every time. It’s not even like you’re friends, or best friends, or lovers. Hal Jordan? Having a crush on you? Please.

“Did you hear about what happened?” you wince, squeezing your eyes closed at the memory.

“Yeah,” Hal admits. “Sorry about that. You wanna talk about it?”

“I’m good,” you choke, opening your eyes and turning your head to the opposite direction. “Just... them being them.” Then you snap to Hal with wide orbs, “not you!”

“No, that’s... that’s fine.” The brunette dips his head and takes a step towards you. The muscular, masculine curve of his thighs that draws up to his hips juts against the boring gray of the rest of the room, catching your attention. “Not like I’m one of the founding members, whatever... Day going good besides that?”

“I forgot my breakfast,” you sigh.

“Oof,” Hal hisses.

“I ran out of milk. Also, I lost my clothes at the laundromat.”

He’s silent for a moment. “Well that sucks,” Hal decides.

“Yeah.”

Hal Jordan observes you. Sitting atop a metal case, your legs dangling over the side as your back curves outwards. It’s the sit of defeat. Not one that Hal is particularly familiar with these days but one that he could definitely see himself doing. It’s not a good look on you. You look way better, to him at least, when you’re smiling, and when the smile reaches your eyes so he’s sure you’re happy.

He would like to make you happy.

His fingers flick against his ring- the one that can conjure anything Hal can imagine according to his will- and like a projection, green shapes begin materializing.

First, the ground slopes downward like a hill. Then, simulated liquid fills the hole. Waterlilies and cattails sprout in random places. Ducks pop to life and paddle around nonchalantly. In the emerald marsh, if you squint, you can see little frogs swimming.

“Hope you like ponds,” Hal offers. A second ago, he was uncertain about what he chose the ring to conjure. Now, the look of wonder on your face makes him more confident. It seeps into his tone as he watches.

“I forgot you could do that,” you decide, eyes still on the water. Everything’s so real. The only thing to tip off that this is the work of a green lantern ring is the obvious green nature of everything. Brings a whole new meaning to the color ‘sea green’.

“Yeah, I’m full of surprises.” Hal climbs onto the crate next to you, grunting as his joints settle. Fighting interdimensional crime really takes a toll on the ol’ knees. “Penny for your thoughts?”

“You just want me to tell you what goes on inside my brain so badly don’t you?”

“Just bein’ a pal,” Hal smiles.

“Real good pal,” you muse, smiling back at the end.

“Here,” Hal makes a sack of little shapes appear in the palm of his gloved hand. “Feed the ducks?”

You smile. A heat floods to your cheeks as you reach into the small green bag to pull out small green chunks. Feeding the ducks is such a cliché. And yet, you know you’ve done it before. But when? It’s been years, hasn’t it? Was it with family?

“I just throw it?”

“Go for it,” Hal agrees.

You spring the piece of emerald into the little fake pond. It floats on top, as if it were real, gently bobbing along the surface. The ducks swarm to each piece, feathers awry. “That ring is really something,” you whisper so only Hal could hear.

“You want a go with it?” Hal smirks.

“Hard pass,” you say, watching the ducks snap their little beaks. “I’d just cause more structural damage to the city.”

Hal chuckles. “Been there. Coast City is pretty much just Ocean City but with more green. From the pollution, I mean.”

“Oh. That’s fun.”

Quiet. Your feet dangle back and forth again.

“You’re sweet,” you say.

“Something wrong with that?” Hal entertains. His voice vibrates lowly, his in particular, this particular time sending a series of explosive sparks to the area between your hips. Strange.

“No,” you say, slowly. “It’s fine.”

More quiet.

“I’m sorry the League gives you a hard time,” Hal offers. Both of your eyes are trained on the pondlife still. “I get it. There was a time where that was me.”

You pass him a quizzical look.

Hal meets your eyes momentarily. The corner of his lips flicker upwards as he gets ready to speak, but it’s the eye contact that sends another multiple planed bolt through your body and right to your naval.

“Yeah,” he continues. “I was the laughing stock of the universe. Still not sure why...”

“But you’re Green Lantern,” you say, brows furrowing. “You can literally make...” your hands sputter to the lake he created for you ahead, and the ducks and the weeds and the frogs, “...anything!”

Hal holds up a quick finger. His index. “I’m a Green Lantern.”

“You can still make anything.”

“Not anything,” Hal muses. “Can’t make people fall in love with me. Can’t make Superman invite me to his parties.”

“He has parties?”

Hal nods.

“Oh. Ok, well,” you shuffle closer a little, bumping your shoulder against his warmly. “You’re doing a good job of having someone fall in love with you now.”

Hal cracks a smile at you. Jeez, what’s up with the perfect teeth? Did he make them?!

“Eh, I’m not so sure about that. Aquaman still won’t let me cuddle up to him at night.”

You shrug. “Where will his dolphin lover sleep if you’re in his spot?”

“Good point,” Hal nods. You hum in agreement.

“Maybe you can get him drunk at one of those Superman parties?” you offer, one brow raising. “And you’ll get lucky and kiss?”

“Already tried. I’m pretty sure he can only get drunk off of salt water. Plus I’m also certain he’d taste like fish.”

“Now you’re the one with the good point,” you nudge again.

Hal nudges back this time. The armor covering his elbow pinches through yours and stings your skin for a brief moment. But it’s okay. “You’re the one with the good jokes. Maybe that’s why the League’s not too keen.”

“That’s what I think,” you say.

(You’re correct.)

“Cyborg was like that too.”

“Cyborg’s annoying,” you frown. “He smells like beans.”

“Is that what it is?” Hal furrows his brows. He reaches into the little pouch still in his palm and sprays more food out to the pond. Again, his leaf colored birds flock to the splashes of water. “I thought it was oil.”

You shrug.

“I’m sorry you’re having a hard time,” Hal then says, wholeheartedly.

Your eyes raise to meet his. Then you realize Hal’s done the impossible. He’s cheered you up.

All those times he’d spent following you around, sliding into the same seating arrangement as you, greeting you when everyone else is busy- Hal was looking out for you. What for? Well, he has a bit of a crush on you. You’re funny, and your superhero armor is tight. He’s really like a schoolboy walking behind his first crush like a light stalker. But that’s for another time.

“That’s okay,” you say back. “These ducks help.”

You and Hal Jordan turn back to the scene before you. The sea green water churns softly, the ducks wading calmly. Green light casts across the room in reflections, most prominently bouncing against Hal’s suit. The pit in your stomach dissipates. Batman sucking isn’t even a thought in your mind.

And the world keeps spinning, this time with Hal seeing the smile he set out to earn.

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Just something light I wrote within the hour. I main Robin in Injustice 2, and Red Hood and Reverse Flash are my backups, but I’m getting kinda good with Green Lantern. Then I realized, ‘hey, this game made Hal Jordan kinda fine! I should do something with it!’. So, ta-da! What do you think?

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smhalltheurlsaretaken · 3 years

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Sorry but what exactly is up with the bad batch arc? I've heard people talk about the issues with echo's white skin but I haven't heard that many bad things about the arc itself? (ik you said you don't want to be negative on your blog so I would absolutely understand if you didn't answer this ask)

Oooooooooooh boy. Well I just had a long, long, LONG rant about it with someone, but I guess I’ve got an excuse to put all of my points onto a post and talk about it publicly now that I got an ask x) I’ll keep it under the cut so I don’t throw my salt in people’s face. I really don’t want to upset people who love that arc - it has redeeming qualities, but overall it pisses me off so much for so many reasons. So here:

The first issue is obviously two members of the Bad Batch (minus Echo) being being just about the furthest thing from maori no matter how much you're willing to stretch it.

Like... yeah, nah. I wouldn’t even accept Crosshair and Tech (grey haired guy and goggles guy) as Jango’s natural biological sons, nevermind as his clones.

The problem is that their different appearances are justified by them being described simply as clones with desirable mutations (i.e superpowers). But why the hell did the creators have to change their appearances for that to be a thing? How does that correlate? Sure, the concept of clones with different faces is interesting, except... no, no it’s not, and I’m gonna rant about it in a few secs. But basically it's like they thought giving them different faces would be a good substitute for having different personalities (another thing I’ll come back to). If they really wanted to have buff clones with super eyesight or whatnot they could have just done that, without making them lose what little melanin the lighting of the show had allowed the other Clones to keep.

But the gigantic problem is... showing that the "regular" clones have VERY distinct identities despite their identical faces has been one of the themes of the show from episode 1. Literally, the first episode of TCW has Yoda taking time out of a mission with galactic stakes to tell the three clones he’s with (who tell him they’re all the same because they have the same faces) that they’re wrong, and that they’re very different in the Force, that their appearance doesn’t matter, that they’re all equally unique and important, and he lists all of their individual skills, strengths and weaknesses.

And it’s not just me being bothered by that, here’s a post by @cacodaemonia saying the same thing.

Introducing the Bad Batch as "unique" clones who are "different" and "not like their brothers" because they have different faces and skills completely breaks that theme of the show!! Because the entire point of the Clones in TCW is that their faces don't matter, they ARE unique!

(Plus the Bad Batch’s character designs are so cliche and uninspired it’s just laughable to try and justify bleaching their freaking skin for the sake of visual diversity.

This took like 10 seconds. I found the first guy by literally googling “soldier movies,” and the other two are Team Fortress characters that look a LOT like Wrecker and Crosshair. One is “Heavy” and one is “Sniper” lmao.

And behold:

The above picture is a Team Fortress reference that I found just by looking up “bad batch clone wars,” so I’m not the only person who sees it.)

And the batchers don't even have personalities to justify calling them unique! They have no character traits beyond the most cliché american soldier tropes ever. We have a token loner sniper, a token "smart tech guy" who knows everything from xenoanthropology to biology to Separatist computers to sound waves to encryption, a token Badass Brooding Leader and a token “dumb muscle guy.”

I dare anyone to find more about their personalities than this: - Crosshair is the perpetually grumpy sniper who looks down on "regs,” - Wrecker likes to blow up stuff and doesn't like heights, - Hunter is the leader and is friends with Cody, - Tech is smart doesn't trust Echo.

That’s it, that’s literally it. Four episodes about them and that's all we get. These character tropes are literally the least inventive ever. FFS, Hunter even has a freaking KNIFE! Not a vibroblade, mind you, like in kriffing Star Wars. A knife. Against metal droids. Why. They couldn’t make this more of an american-war-movies cliché fest if they tried. (And sure, he can feel electromagnetic waves so maybe it does make sense for him not to carry a vibroblade and maybe this is nitpicking, but he looks like a ripoff of a Predator character and it pisses me off).

Another thing is that when you introduce characters you have to make them likable - and them despising the normal Clones is a terrible way to do that! And they don't even grow from that because at the end of the 4 episodes arc they just see Rex as not bad "for a reg" and they see Echo as no longer a reg, and both of these things are infuriating!

The worst thing imo is that Echo then becomes part of them (and irreparably loses his melanin in the process, uuuuuuuuugh) when there is nothing to justify this.

The dialogue goes like this:

ECHO: You coming? TECH: Not really our thing. CROSSHAIR: Accolades. WRECKER: Yeah, we're just in it for the thrill. Yo! HUNTER: You sure it's your thing? ECHO: What do you mean? HUNTER: Your path is different. Like ours. If you ever feel like you don't fit in with them, well, find us. (they leave) REX: Those are some of the finest troopers I've ever fought alongside. Echo. You and I go way back. If that's where you feel your place is, then that's where you belong.

Echo doesn't feel like he belongs anymore, okay, but why would he feel like he belongs with the assholes who up to the last five minutes of the mission thought he was probably a traitor, and also verbally expressed that he was not worth saving?? In all of the arc, Echo himself never voices that he feels he’s not ‘like the other Clones’ anymore and that he feels it’s a problem. His relationship with Rex immediately picks up where they left things off - the first thing he does upon being lucid again for the first in over a year is cracking a joke for Rex’s benefit.

Why would Echo feel like he doesn’t belong in the 501st anymore, when we don't even see him interacting with anyone from his past life except for Rex and Anakin (who are both extremely very supportive of him)?? If there had been one scene of a “regular” Clone (ugh) looking at him with horror and disgust or something, or just Kix and Jesse cracking jokes with Echo awkwardly standing by the side not getting it, I could forgive the show trying to make it feel like he has an identity crisis, but this was so shallow!

The only thing that makes Echo and the Bad Batch’s experiences similar is that they *look* different. It’s so against the themes of the Clones I’m seething just from thinking about it. And what the hell? Echo ALREADY didn’t fit in. That was the WHOLE POINT of Domino Squad. They didn’t fit in because they thought they were better than anyone else because they had trouble getting along with their brothers, so obviously it had to be their brothers’ fault (ahem, Bad Batch?). And you know what happened? Domino Squad OVERCAME that. And Echo and Fives still didn’t “fit in” because their personalities were unique and creative, and they became ARC Troopers because Cody, Rex and the Jedi VALUED THEM FOR PRECISELY THAT. Echo having new and unique skills and a modified appearance is the most bs justification for him feeling like he doesn’t belong!!

And that brings me to my biggest issue: Rex telling Echo the bad batch are some of the best troopers he's ever met. I'm sorry, based on WHAT? What Rex values above everything is loyalty and brotherhood, and the Bad Batch DOESN'T DISPLAY ANY OF THAT. We never see them even expressing concern for each other! Wrecker treats saving Cody’s life like a trivial issue, because it’s just ‘sO eAsY’ for him, and beyond that we never see them supporting each other or genuinely expressing affection for each other beyond boasting about each other’s skills...

Sure they can destroy a lot of droids, but they're dismissive of Rex's brothers, and the entire Umbara arc and this arc showed what he thought of that. They keep saying things like "not bad for a reg,” don't show any trust in Rex's skills or experience (even though they can't have been fighting in the war for more than a year and a half when he’s been there from the beginning, and he outranks all of them), they are essentially guerilla fighters which has only minimal value in a galactic war, and they never grow beyond their views of what regs are, and can and can’t do.

None of that should make them good troopers in Rex's book. Going back to Echo not fitting in, remember who taught the Domino Squad the importance of seeing all of your brothers as important and equally valuable? Shaak Ti, true, but more importantly? 99! The guy the Bad Batch are named after. He did have value and was important and was no less of a trooper than his brothers, even though his mutations made him LESS powerful, not more. (And btw, just from a writing standpoint, the batchers don’t have any weaknesses, which is shit.) Cody and Rex mourned 99 as a true soldier even though it wasn’t his sacrifice that brought them victory (which would have implied that he had value as a soldier and a brother because he saved them, as opposed to him having that value intrinsically), because that’s what a fine trooper is to them. A BROTHER first a foremost, someone altruistic, brave and loyal. The Bad Batch distort the meaning of 99's character with their behavior. They’re not altruistic, their bravery is mitigated by the fact that they’re freaking invincible, so of course they take risks (again, see Wrecker saving Cody without a care because it’s easy to him, as opposed to Rex being ready to run into a burning ship about to explode because his brother is in there, and having to be physically dragged away). The Bad Batch denigrate their brothers for being less skilled, thinking their own abilities make them unique somehow, when 99 could barely fight and was still the one who taught Hevy about being a good soldier.

And again the batchers don't grow from that. Which is all the more frustrating because the original ending didn’t have Echo joining them, from what I remember of the unfinished episodes, and the arc actually ended with them receiving their medals in front of regular troopers who cheer for them, as opposed to them smugly ostracizing themselves and dismissing the ceremony as trivial and meaningless. (original ending vs s7 ending: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab1eCfzKamw)

It’s so annoying. Do you know what characters never had an entire arc dedicated to them and still have far more personality and more interesting designs and more symbolic weight??

Jesse, for starters. Kix. Dogma. Cut. Slick. Keeli. Ponds. Rys, Jek and Thire. Commander Doom. Commander Fox. Wolffe. Hevy. Hardcase.

Cody was a more interesting character just in his RotS appearances.

Waxer and Boil had one episode about them and then only two cameos plus Waxer’s death, and they’re still some of the most memorable, beloved Clones of the whole show. And Boil was grouchy and prejudiced like Crosshair, but he has so much growth that we could make a whole thread about it.

I'd say the last problem with the Bad Batch is that it has cash grabbing money hungry vibes. Different faces are more marketable, cliché personalities are more toy-friendly, and it's basically a big ad for the Bad Batch series. And they throw Echo in the Batch at the end for bs reasons (again, it wasn’t in the original ep from what I remember) and they tease Cody in the show to make sure fans will still watch even if they notice the lack of soul. And less melanin sells more at Disney apparently.

So that’s my whole pissed rant.

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sukunasbabymama · 2 years

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Okay so i can't sleep and this thought just rammed into my head but....

I feel like South would be a decent baby daddy.

Like if he ever gets anyone knocked up, if that person wants to keep it or not. He'd respect it.

If they do keep it then South would mostly likely maybe settle down with them.

At first he'd call them "his baby momma" but then later on he'll just them his s/o till he starts calling them his wife/husband/spouse.

Thank you for you time for reading this. I have more thoughts on this but i don't want to bother you.

No cause you’re right. He is a psycho, we know that much from this arc, but, he’s actually good at calculating too, street smart we can say, otherwise he wouldn’t be able to lead a gang in Brazil (doesn’t matter that he look too old by 12, latino gangs are ruthless and he was a kid). Also, remember that Benkei said his punches were weak? And then we saw Terano taking them both and knocking them out? That tell us that he was deliberately play-fighting in order to see his enemies’ moves. He’s not that dumb.

So, if his s/o decides to have the baby it would be the same? I mean, he would see and learn about babies, not on the internet, books or whatever, but in the streets. He will ace taking care of them cause he’s a street smart giant; catch him asking the aunties from the neighborhood what to do when they don’t want to drink their formula (and plsss POC know about how aunties and grannies are so comfortable around delinquents lmaooo).

#☺︎︎. answered #WHY DO I MAKE A WHOKE INTRODUCTION WHEN ANSWERING #i hope you dont mind :(#☀︎︎. children headcanons #tokyo revengers spoilers

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juniorgman187 · 3 years

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About Time (Reid Fic)

Summary: Reader’s offer to help Morgan renovate one of his properties makes Spencer jealous enough to confess what he never could before.

A/N: I try to avoid specific Reid eras in my works so that it can be up to you how you imagine him, but please just imagine seasons 1 or 2 Spencer - I’m telling you it’ll make the experience richer. Also, I might improve this fic in the near future bc I’m not entirely happy with it. Category: Drabble, Fluff Pairing: Fem!Reader x Spencer Reid Content Warning: None Word Count: 2.5k Playlist: Would You Be So Kind by Dodie

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Clink … Clink … Clink …

The repetitive noise was barely discernible at first, then it became all that I could focus on.

In an attempt to find the source, I looked up from my paperwork and scanned the room. It only took me half a second to discover that Morgan was the culprit.

From across the round table, I watched as Derek absentmindedly stirred his coffee and sugar together, making a ‘clink’ noise each time his spoon hit the rim of the cup. This wouldn’t have been bothersome had it not persisted for more than 10 minutes which, by all accounts, is plenty of time for the sugar to dissolve.

“Derek… ” I sort of sang, trying to capture his attention as nicely as possible.

“Derek.” I repeated, this time a little less quietly and a little more sharply. Still, my voice did nothing to stop the noisy stirring of his coffee. I stayed silent for a second, just in case he finally noticed I was speaking to him, but when he didn’t, I gave a concerned look to Spencer beside me as if to ask if he was seeing what I was and he returned just the same expression of confusion.

That’s when I knew something was wrong.

“Derek!” I said even louder, finally catching his attention.

His head snapped in my direction, his ghost-like countenance falling away after looking directly at me. I was relieved to see proof of life had been regained behind his eyes. The abrupt reaction made me squint harder in his direction to decipher what was truly going on. “Is everything okay? You were kind of zoning out just now.”

He sighed while rubbing the sleep from his eyes. “It’s nothing. I just had a late night last night and I didn’t go to bed till three this morning.”

“Oh?” I asked coyly. “And what was her name?” I brought my mug to my lips to hide my growing smirk behind the rim.

He didn’t catch on right away, which to me was more than enough evidence that he wasn’t well. He was usually the first to be aware of an innuendo, maybe even the one to be making it. “Whose name?”

“The girl that kept you up till three this morning.” I mimicked his voice in crude yet playful imitation.

To this, he shook his head and rolled his eyes with a grin. “Alright, get your pretty lil’ head out of the gutter, Kitten. I was busy fixing up a property I got down in Emporia. Lost track of time. That’s all.”

Whether or not he was hiding something more, I didn’t care anymore. He’d piqued my interest in this new topic. “Emporia? That’s like 2 or 3 hours away.”

His eyebrows lifted in agreement. “Yeah, like I said - late night.”

Not even trying to tempt him with my words, I simply remarked, “But I mean it can’t be that hard though, right? Fixing up the house?”

There was no verbal response from him, only a mirthless chuckle.

I was less careful with my words than I should’ve been, letting them flow through my mouth without filtering them first. “I’m just saying, I worked with Habitat For Humanity for years. We built thousands of houses from scratch, each of them within a matter of days.”

He sat up in his seat and leaned forward to assert himself. It was nearly the same mannerisms he would display in an interview when he wanted to maintain dominance. “Well, that’s because you got how many people working on one house?”

When I didn’t answer, he simply tapped the table and leaned back comfortably in his seat, prematurely relishing in a self-proclaimed victory. “Yeah, exactly. Whereas, it’s just little ol’ me fixing up these properties.”

“Okay, then I’ll help you.”

He only snickered in response, lending way for me to believe he didn’t trust that I’d provide any sort of productive assistance.

“I will!” I insisted. “Since you’re so convinced those houses were only built as fast as they were because it was a group effort, I want to prove to you that it’s actually because I’m just a fast worker.”

“It’s not a race, Kitten. All I said was it took me a while to fix up the house. I don’t need you to help. And I wouldn’t be paying you even if you did, by the way.”

“Oh, I’m not doing this for money,” I reasserted. “I’m doing this for pride. I know I’m right, and I want you to know it, too.”

It’s worth mentioning that Derek and I made these kinds of bets all the time. Our friendship was practically built on the foundation of competition. The first interaction I ever had with him was when he came up to me while I was arranging my desk to ask what I thought the odds were that he could toss his paper ball into the trashcan across the bullpen.

Years Ago . . .

“What are the chances I’ll make the shot?” I heard a deep, unfamiliar voice inquire from behind me.

“You’re aiming for the trashcan all the way over there? No way.” This voice I knew was Elle’s. She’d been the second person to introduce herself to me and if I had to guess, the deeper voice belonged to the guy I recalled sitting diagonally from her. I made eye contact with him when I initially walked in, but he hadn’t taken the time to introduce himself to me, nor I to him. He seemed a little preoccupied … making a paper ball and all.

“Actually, if Morgan’s throw had specific arc, the trajectory of the ball would -”

“He’s not making it, Reid.” Elle cut off the small, almost mousy voice promptly, shutting down any ‘pro-Morgan-making-the-shot’ argument he was about to make.

You could get a lot from just listening. Some might call it eavesdropping, but I like to call it being observant, and from what I’d observed

A) The one throwing the ball was Morgan.

B) The smart-sounding one was Reid.

C) Reid was a proponent of Morgan, so I could assume they were close friends.

D) There were three very distinct, very different personalities in this general vicinity of desks alone.

“O’ ye of little faith! Gimme a break, Elle. You’re just busting my balls ‘cause Reid came to me about Lila before he came to you.”

“That has nothing to do with the fact that I’m right.”

“No, but it means you have bias.” Derek retorted.

“Fine then. If it means that much to you to have an unbiased opinion, let’s ask someone impartial - like Anderson.”

“Actually, I have a better idea,” The deep voice said as soon as I’d placed the last item on my desk - a stack of sticky notes in the shape of a cat’s face that’d been gifted to me the moment I exited the elevator by Penelope Garcia.

“Excuse me, Kitten,” The deep voice purred. “You think I could get this ball into that trash bin right over there?”

It took me a second to register that he was addressing me until I realized where the nickname originated from and that it had belonged to me - I could thank Penelope for that.

“Oh, um …” I looked around the room like somehow it would have my answer. In some ways, it did.

I made contact with Reid first. He smiled weakly at me with tender awkwardness that melted my heart a little bit. Meanwhile, Elle’s eyes were luring me to join her on the dark side and say he wouldn’t make it. To be fair, riling him up seemed like fun. I’d be on Elle’s good side, gain her approval, and if I executed my jest playfully enough, I’d be on Morgan’s good side, too.

“No shot in hell, big guy.”

Present Time . . .

That’s how it all started - this sibling-like rivalry. Ever since then, we’ve been challenging each other like our lives depended on it. And if I had to make it my life’s mission to win this most recent bet, then so be it.

“Alright, kitten, I’ll take you up on that offer. I’ll pick you up at 9 on Saturday.”

We sealed the deal with a cross-table handshake, and at that moment, I hadn’t realized it - only when I thought back to it, did I notice - Reid had been watching the entire interaction unfold. Misinterpreting every painstaking second of it.

_ _ _

Sticking true to his word, Derek had taken up my offer in spades. Not the least bit shy in delegating me each and every duty there could possibly be.

I’ll admit, he used my pride to his advantage. Because while I was practically doing all the handy-work imaginable inside the property, he was resting on his laurels outside, probably taking up the view of rolling green hills that went on forever just beyond the front yard.

It just so happened that that would be our maintained, respective locations for the unexpected arrival of Derek’s very first (very unhappy) guest.

I was inside painting when I heard the placid squeak of Derek getting up from his Adirondack chair on the wraparound porch. I remember peeking my head out of the doorway for a second to see if he was finally going to come inside and help me, but lo and behold, I caught him walking further away from the entrance. While I might’ve given an eye roll of annoyance at the action, I thought nothing of it. Not until I heard Derek speaking to an eerily familiar secondary voice.

“What are you doing here?” I could hear Derek ask. My ears had perked up like a dog on high alert.

“Don’t play dumb. You’re trying to … to -” The second voice stammered.

“Spit it out, kid!”

“You’re trying to steal my girl!” Whoever it was, was desperate to speak with conviction, maybe even malice, to prove some level of strength that could match Derek’s, but they tried and failed.

“Whoa, whoa, whoa. Steal your girl? What the hell are you talking about, man?”

“You know I like her! And yet you’re just hanging out with her alone now? On one of your desolate properties? Can’t you see how suspicious that looks? You’re supposed to be my friend.”

I’d stopped painting completely at this point so I could take asylum behind the closed door. I could place that voice anywhere, and I needed to press my ear against the only thing separating it from me to confirm what I already knew.

“Reid, I am your friend,” And there it was. Reid? “And as your friend, I’m telling you: lower your voice unless you want her to hear you.”

“Don’t patronize me. Just tell me,” Spencer, if anything, spoke louder. Perhaps he did want me to hear him, or he simply wanted to defy Derek. “Why do you flirt with her?”

“Flirt?” Derek seemed appalled at the word. It would’ve been offensive that he was disgusted at the thought of engaging with me in that manner had I not felt the same way. What we were doing was not flirting - by any stretch of the imagination.

“You know what I’m talking about. You call her ‘Kitten,’ you both make sexual innuendos that you think fly over my head, you invite her to come over.”

“Slow your roll, Pretty Boy. First of all, ‘Kitten’ is just a nickname I gave her the first time we met because I didn’t know what her actual name was. You know that - you were there. Second, the sexual innuendos are just playful jabs at the fact that I sleep around. Low hanging-fruit. Third, inviting her to come over might seem suspicious, but if you walk in there right now, you’ll see that nothing is going on between us. She’s just here to help.”

I wanted any excuse to walk out there myself and announce my nearby presence. Confront Spencer and tell him I heard everything. Ask him where any of this was coming from. How he could think, for even a second, that there was something between me and Morgan.

Turns out, I didn’t need an excuse. I had already walked out.

Spencer gulped hard when he saw me. And for that I felt sorry for him. He looked so unlike himself. His hair was disheveled like he’d ran his fingers through it a million times out of stress. His outfit was strangely untidy, the buttons of his cuff unclasped. “Could you ... did you-”

“I heard everything,” I clarified to the dumbfounded shell of a man standing at the base of Morgan’s stairs.

It was a triangle of stares between us all. Exchanging quizzical glances in a battle of wills to see who would fold first. I was looking at Reid, Reid was looking at me, then he looked at Morgan, who looked back at him, then at me. Like I said, a triangle of stares.

“Um ... I’ll leave you two to talk. I’ll just be inside.”

I suppose there were worse ways to finally get Morgan off his ass and working.

Reid trailed Morgan with his eyes, while I simply waited for the sound of the door shutting behind me. It took a few more seconds until one of us had the gall to speak.

“Did you mean what you said? About liking me?” This question that I posed went unanswered for what felt like minutes. Looking at Reid, I could tell he wanted to say something, he just didn’t know what.

The soul was willing, but the flesh was weak.

“If you’re not ready to admit it, that’s okay. But then why did you really come here, Spencer? To yell at Morgan for possibly making a move on me? Because now’s your chance. Make your move, Spence.” I descended the stairs, stopping to stand on the very last step so I’d hover a mere inch above him. “Make a move.”

Make a move, he did.

Warm, clammy hands that were disproportionately bigger than the rest of his body caught my face so that unbelievably, inconceivably soft lips could make their fierce attack with no resistance. His fingers laced through my hair until his hand found the nape of my neck. He used that as leverage to pull me impossibly closer.

When he was just one step away from sucking my soul out of me, I laid my palm on his chest and pushed him slightly backward. I think I heard him laughing when I did this, probably to hide the shame of letting himself commit so fully to the moment that he forgot just how intense his passion was.

His eyes fluttered open and his lips were still contorted in a pucker. It took him a second, but it finally came.

“I meant what I said,” He confessed ever so nonchalantly as though it were the easiest thing in the world to him, despite being unable to come even close to admitting it just minutes before. “I like you. A lot.”

It was me who laughed then, both from the sheer elation hearing him say that brought me and the distant, exasperated comment that came from within the house.

“Well, finally! It’s about damn time!”

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Y'all suck at dissecting Kai's character, so I guess I have to do it.

And I'm not even a Kai stan. He's a bottom tier ninja for me, which I guess means you can trust me, cuz I'm not biased, but also why am I the one doing this? I don't know about y'all, but recently on my dash, the method by which Kai fans try to make him sound good is... saying the writers hate him, ignore him, and that he isn't written well? Which... I mean there is a little bit of truth to, but like yikes guys, is this the best you got? Kai is a wonderful character with plenty of attention from the writers, a meaningful piece of the cast when put in secondary rolls, fairly consistent character writing with actual progression and valuable qualities that help the team without having to be the smart one- despite what some posts might tell you.

Let's get one thing cleared up: Ninjago isn't the best written show. By high level Hollywood standards, most the character arcs are kinda weak or too heavy handed, character consistency can be iffy, and most things serve the plot rather than the characters. There is no character you can point to and say "wow, this character is written so well! No complaints!" Nya and Jay were butchered by their weird love plot, Cole's one season doesn't actually give him an arc, Zane's been nothing but the robot numbers guy for like 10 seasons now, and Lloyd seems to be incapable of doing anything but relive the same one piece of dad angst for depth. Sorry, it's true. All the characters suck when you look at it from a large scale writing perspective. So when I say Kai is well written, I mean by ninjago kids show standards- cuz that's the scale we're working on. No, you couldn't drop Kai into a well written drama, but as far as ninjago goes... he's got a lot going for him, and by no means is he the biggest victim of poor writing.

(fair warning, wall of text below)

The title is a bit disingenuous. There are plenty of good Kai character break downs. What I am presenting here is a more positive perspective. On the whole, I will tend to give the writers the benefit of the doubt, and credit for what they do right writing is hard guys. That's what I'm doing here. I don't see much sense in getting mad the writers on behalf of Kai, or any other character. Ninjago is a simplistic ensemble show that works because of the identifiable simplicity of its main characters with some deeper layers hidden underneath if you keep watching. They've given us a damn good show with some damn enjoyable characters, so here are some criticisms I feel are a little flawed:

First, let's get the 'focus' thing out of the way. Apparently there are people saying Kai doesn't have a season yet? Which... what? I mean, I get that the pilots aren't a full season, the first two seasons, though he is the central protagonist, aren't "Kai seasons" as we've come to define ninja focus seasons, season 7, though he gets majority focus, he shares with his sister. But like... did y'all just forget about season 4? You know, the season where he had the title card, was on the box sets, got the love interest, and the majority of the A-plot? not to mention it's the best season don't @ me Like... if season 4 isn't a Kai season, I can make a damn good argument that season 3 isn't a Zane season, and I doubt anyone wants to go down that rabbit hole. I really can't wrap my head around this one. And I get that the fandom hates season 11 for some reason, but like you can't just pretend it doesn't exist. Kai has a consistent arc across 30 episodes in which he takes his powers for granted, loses them, and learns that, not only does he have value within the team without them, but that his element is intrinsically a part of him that he reclaims, bringing them back more powerful than ever, and with new respect for them. That's one of the most solid arcs in the whole series- the location is even thematically connected to his element. That's some good stuff right there! (Quick plug for season 11 if you haven't watched it in a while. Give it a rewatch, you might be pleasantly surprised)

Not to mention the writers give him fun side stuff all the time. Lots of fears of tech and water to overcome, a deep protective streak with Lloyd, becoming a chancellor, having a true potential actually relevant to the plot as a whole, blacksmith responsibilities, befriending dragons, hanging out with his dad. Not to mention actual focus stuff we haven't talked about yet, like his whole "my dad is evil" phase, and his "I might be evil" phase with him and Skylor. And on top of that, even when he doesn't have an explicit side plot, he's always just a fun and dynamic side character to make jokes or give exposition.

Now, into character stuff. Let's start with Kai's hot headed-ness. Some people say he's been loosing this quality, and I will admit, that's true! But those that claim this makes him inconsistent... I strongly disagree. In early seasons, Kai's temper would lead him to snap at his friends or make stupid decisions that set the team back (see episode 2 Zane freak out)- these are bad things. These are character flaws, yes? Now, in newer seasons, people say that he's inconsistent, cuz sometimes he'll be hot headed, and sometimes he won't. I'd say, this is exactly how being hot headed... works? It flares up without warning, and as an individual gets control of it, it'll pop up less and less often because they're channeling it into productive things - like say directing the anger towards an enemy (see season 11 end freak out). Kai has gained control of a character flaw, and though it still pops up on occasion, the fact that it's a once in a while kind of thing speaks to his growth. I have a little brother who has this exact personality, and watching him grow up, I can tell you, this is how it is. He used to snap all the time, and he still does sometimes, but much less frequently, because he's a more mature person with better control of his emotions. This is a good thing. This is overcoming personal flaws. This is progression we're seeing.

And while you're hyper focused on this one aspect of him, things like his cocky confidence haven't changed a bit. I mean, that season 3 bit between him and Pixal, and his season 11 "fire maker" streak have the exact same energy. You can not convince me otherwise.

Another adjacent quality that hasn't been dampened is Kai's impulsiveness. This can be a good quality of his, he'll get into a fight without thinking, getting the jump on the enemy. Good stuff. But, this has become such a well defined trait of Kai's that it has been used in a comedic capacity. This is what happens when a character is extremely consistent to the extent that both the audience and the characters in universe would be able to predict their actions. Kai's impulsivity used to be a more serious quality that put himself and others at risk, and was a big power move whenever he did something rash, but it's become such a staple of the show that it's now being used for comedy. That isn't Kai's impulsivity going away, that's Kai's impulsivity being recontextualized for the sake of the show. The season 9 "Who's stupid enough to jump on that thing" isn't a joke at the expense of Kai just for being dumb, it's a joke at Kai's being so predictably impulsive that everyone already knows he'll be the one to put himself in an insane amount of danger without thinking twice (you know, something stupid that might get him killed). But because in this instance, the danger is warranted, this is bravery. It's a complement to his character- it's what ends up defeating the colossus. Why are some people so bothered by this joke?

Oh right, cuz for some reason people want to peg Kai as the smart one? Look, Kai isn't stupid, none of the ninja are. All of them have smart moments (all of them have dumb ones too) and Kai can certainly handle himself, but "smart" is definitely not one of his defining characteristics- I think some people are confusing smart for his actual strength. Connected to his impulsivity, Kai has very good simplistic instincts. He sees the big picture and looks at the most surface level solution- which when the situation calls for it, that does indeed make him smart. But the same logic that led him to think "This snake has a glowing target on its head, lets hit it" also led him to think "I'm in a video game, therefore I am immortal." Are you really going to look at me and say he figured out Lloyd was the green ninja through logical deduction and a careful consideration of the facts? No. He had a gut feeling, and he trusted it. Instincts- instincts paired with his impulsive following of said instincts is what leads him to solve problems- and sometimes, that can be extremely effective. This goes for other ninja too. Jay isn't the smartest ninja- I would really only classify Zane and Nya as having intelligence define them (hence their ship name). But Jay is extremely creative and crafty. He also knows his was around mechanics, and as such, this will lead him to come up with creative tech based solutions which are smart. But, idk about you, if I had to point to another ninja as being 'dumb' it would 100% be Jay. Kai is a lot of things. He's passionate and determined and confident and persistent. He's a good improvisor, he's powerful and he's charming! These are all wonderful qualities, he doesn't also have to be the smart one. I am the worlds biggest Pixal stan, and she's a smart, sassy, powerful character, but I'm not gonna sit here and tell you she's also hilarious and adaptable and strong willed. She's a straight man to all the ninja's antics, extremely tied to her samurai x suit, and lets people push her around all the time. That doesn't mean she can't be funny, or self interested, but when she does act these ways, it stems from her other more prominent qualities. That make sense?

And while we're clearing up what Kai isn't, please stop characterizing Kai as an overly protective brother - especially romantically. The only two times he's been romantically protective to Nya are in Wu's Teas which I mean, come on and in the pilots when Jay is literally a stranger. For crying out loud, by the end of the pilot, he's smiling when Jay and Nya hug. That's not overly protective, that's just normal, any reasonable person would react this way, protective. And it's such a great stereotype break for a kids show like ninjago, having an older brother who actually trusts his younger sister to be her own independent person who can make her own decisions. I mean, I guess it's fine if you HC differently but like... idk, I don't buy it.

Now, is there still room to criticize the writers? Yes. Hell yes. But not to an extent greater than any other character. Could he have had more of a defined reaction to events of the most recent season that I won't name for the sake of spoilers? Yes. But could Zane have reacted for more than .5 seconds at being an evil war lord for apparently 60 years? Yeah. Has Kai taken a back seat in the past 4 seasons? Yeah. But so has Lloyd- and he's literally the main character of the show. Not to mention two of those seasons have gone to people who had to wait over ten seasons to get one to themselves, and one of them is a 40 minute special. Kai's doing just fine.

Anyway. Kai is great. He's a fun, stereotype breaking, impulsively driven, ball of energy and confidence who gets a good amount of screen time and some fun side plots.

One last thing to clear up: no hate to anyone. This isn't targeted at anyone specific, this post has been a long time coming, I've just seen some weird overblown claims on various platforms over the past few months and I finally sat down to write about it.

I like the Kai content we have. After all, if the writers were really that bad at writing him, then no one would like him.

Wow this was so much longer than I thought it would be. Um... if you have other long winded rants you'd like to see from me... let me know I guess?

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