Wanda: “Try hard, overly cheerful noisy neighbor, mentally ill power hungry witch in chiffon, and sickly dramatic oldie in thrift store raided statement pieces like a gothic middle-aged woman”
Watching a Portal 2 playthrough a couple days ago in current year is interesting
Because the Chell/GLaDOS dynamic is at once way more overtly gay than I remember, but also way way more toxic lmao. GLaDOS definitely has feelings for Chell, but in the same way an abusive ex still has feelings. The blatant double-standards, (my attempts on your life are fine, you successfully downing me before will never be forgotten) the constant insults and gaslighting and attempts at inducing body-image issues, and so on and so forth. It gets better after the whole Wheatley turnabout but never becomes good; in particular is a moment where she defends Chell from Wheatley's fumbling attempts to emulate her insults, only to immediately undercut it with "actually all of that does apply to you and that's terrible, but I have to spite him somehow". GLaDOS sucks.
I'm not saying this to undercut the ship, mind you, because what a beautiful trashfire it is. But it is just kinda funny to realize how far my recollection had drifted from that.
I don’t know nearly enough of Japanese folklore but for hells sake, whichever entity makes sure Mizu stays alive has their hands full!
Also, someone make a fic where she has a godly patron of undying or something. Or where it’s proven she died years ago and now she keeps going simply out of someone’s blessing. Or maybe she has a god smitten, she deserves that.
Marlene is the sort of person to put her headphones on and start to zone out imagining a scenario to the song and then get angry at people if they try to talk to her because she has to skip back to the start of the song and start again