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People always say Shadow's backstory is sad, but I don't think I've ever heard anyone talk about it in depth.
Maria wasn't just Shadow's only friend. She had a fatal illness that couldn't be cured by any natural means, so her grandfather resorted to experimentation to find a cure. Eventually, Shadow was created, whose immortality was meant to be the key to Maria's recovery.
He was created to save her.
But she was killed because she tried to save Shadow from G.U.N. after he was deemed "too dangerous" by the organization to live. Think about that from Shadow's perspective. His only friend, killed because he was created to be a living weapon. Because he was friends with her, and she wanted to save him from G.U.N.
In his mind, Shadow is the reason why his only friend, his purpose, is gone.
After that, all he had left was the second reason for his creation. His status as a living weapon.
What do you think it's like to have only two purposes, one of which is Maria, and the other is why she's gone?
What's left for you at that point but to destroy everything, just like your creator intended?
Shadow blames humanity for Maria's death- it's another part of why he tried to destroy the world- but above all else, he blames himself.
In the end, Shadow is a broken man.
He believes himself to be unable to form connections with anyone; the last time he did, she was killed. He doesn't want to lose another friend, but he's also afraid he'll be the cause if it happens again. He knows he is built to destroy, and he's resigned himself to that purpose. It's all he has left after Maria died.
The reality of it is, Shadow hates himself.
And he has yet to let anyone close enough to help him. He runs away from friendship and teamwork both to protect himself and others from losing another person. He can't let anyone else die because he can't handle the guilt he already feels from the last time it happened.
That... has to be the worst feeling imaginable.
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yeah yeah tom king this tom taylor that geoff johns the other thing. i need people to start recognizing the plague that is scott lobdell.
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Once I head someone say Sarah is the only really necessary or meaningful female character, and that Nazz and the Kankers are pretty much disposable; ''Nazz has no personality, and the Kankers are absent from 50% of episodes and are just a Diabolous ex-machina ending when they appear. The could work very well without any of them.''
What do you think of this?
are they implying that she's only "meaningful" because she's related to ed? because...yikes dog. sarah serves a pretty similar role to the kankers in that she foils the scams and pranks and acts as an obstacle and/or deterrent. an antagonist. but the way they fulfill the role and the reaction they get from the eds are different in ways that i'm too lazy to get into at the moment.
now i could genuinely be missing something because i've never taken a class on media analysis or whatever the fuck, but i truly don't get what people mean when they say nazz is uniquely lacking in personality. i'm not saying eene has excellent, fleshed out female characters, but some people act as if 1) any of the non-eds have highly complex personalities that are explored canonically 2) being kind, outgoing, flirtatious, sporty, etc. aren't personality traits. just because someone doesn't like her personality doesn't mean it doesn't exist. and we know just as much, if not more about nazz's interests than we do the kankers. or jonny: he likes wood, is laid back and seems to enjoy superheroes. or kevin: he likes bmx. he's a bully. he has a crush on nazz. he's buds with rolf, whose backstory we probably know the most about after the eds (maybe even more?). then there's jimmy who lowkey has a great, complex personality.
seems like since nazz is pretty, is into stereotypically "girly" things and is nice, people consider her a "bad" (female) character. which to me is hilarious and ironic. these are the same people who call the kankers "evil". like okay... 😂
this idea that all female characters are supposed to be virtuous geniuses... it's a show about 3 dumbass preteen boys. there are tons of female-led shows available out there, and female main characters galore. these people should go watch em. seriously. im tired of hearing about it frankly.
oh and if edd was canonically a girl, people would hate her and call her a mary sue 👍
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listen, i'll say it
if S3 doesn't give us significantly more Colin scenes, it'll be a failure
Colin is completely underdeveloped as a character. He has gotten just about 0 POV. All we know about him is either filtered through Penelope or in an ensemble scene with everyone else. And at this point, even if S3 is half and half, it still won't be fair. To balance out the discrepency, it should at *least* be 75% Colin and maaaaaaaaybe 25% Pen because we've gotten nothing for him
I ship Polin, I like Pen, but I'm over getting Pen's POV all the time. We've had enough of it. We've certainly had an unfair amount of it in comparison to his. I'm sick of seeing all the Whistledown behind the scenes and all her quiet contemplative moments when Colin doesn't so much as get 5 minutes focused on him being on the boat, or on his travels, writing his letters or talking through a problem to himself.
I love Colin. He's my absolute favorite character. And it sucks to have a favorite character who is *supposed* to be a lead but has had a grand total of nothing. Bton stripped him of character qualities and threw them onto Benedict, gave Colin like 5 lines, and filtered near all his 'development' through Penelope. Aside from his 'everyone says that [I'm Daphne's favorite]', our literal second scene of Colin is through Penelope's eyes. Everything he says, everything he does: it's always through Penelope's eyes. And I'm over it. I wanna see the world through *Colin's* eyes. And it would only deepen the narrative if we do.
Listen, the directors and showrunners have called Colin 'stupid' or 'dim' or 'not smart enough for Penelope'. The fandom has been rather blatant with their disregard of him, calling him boring, that he's not leading man material, writing him as a cardboard cutout in fics, assuming he's an empty charmer (hmmmm, just like what he's upset about in the books), and it's all because he's been denied a narrative. Colin is a rich, nuanced character. He's funny, he's kind, he's compassionate, he rejects toxic masculinity, he's got imposter syndrome like nothing else, he has a very unique role in his family and experienced a very unique perspective after his father died, he has hobbies (writing, boxing, fencing, studying, traveling) and strong values. But we've barely gotten any of it. Sure, we're *told* some things about him, but we never *see* it.
So if S3 is going to be his time to shine, his season, his falling arse over elbow in love era, they *have* to give us his perspective, and I don't fucking want it all to be his perspective about Pen. I am *tired* of Colin as an extension of Penelope. Penelope has had so much room and time and care to be a character on her own. Colin has gotten nothing. And that kind of dynamic does not a good love story make. And if all that underdevelopment wasn't to pull an Uno Reverse on us and give us a season that focuses on him and builds him up, what was it even for?
S3 should be Colin's story
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You know, the downfalls of speedrunning rewatching Adventure Time is that it’s taking the place of when I usually listen to music or podcasts while working. It’s been fine for the most part…
…until today when I had my screen split between a pre-lab quiz and HBO Max…
And fuckin “Simon and Marcy” comes on.
Did I lose points on the quiz due to my vision being blurred by tears?
Yes.
Sacrificial fatherly love > gas laws, fellas.
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xenophobic fucker my beloved. who else would take a reasonable and even noble 'we must prepare to face any alien threat and prevent whatever happened to me from happening to others' takeaway from his traumatic life events and somewhere along the way straight up make it into 'I HAVE TO MAKE A SUPERIOR HUMAN RACE BASED ON MUTATED RAT GENES AND MY APPEARANCE, INFILTRATE THEM INTO THE HUMANKIND AND IF THEY KILL 57% OF IT WHILE SEARCHING FOR MUTANTS/ALIENS IN HIDE THEN SO BE IT, THAT WOULD ACTUALLY BE A HEALTHY OUTCOME FOR EARTH.'
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Dorley readers know turning the page onto this chapter while reeling from the preceding chapter and seeing it start with THAT is the most horrifying thing ever
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i love dnd character creation so much. i love how my half orc warlock having weaver's tools became a big part of his backstory. i love how the purposefully 'edgy rogue' i was trying to make is a writer and has two levels in bard. i love getting to take the tiniest details and connect them together in whatever way you want. even if everyone used the exact same framework for character creation with zero homebrew or alterations to the source material, every single character would be different. and that's because people are different, and every person is creative in their own way, and no matter how hard you try to make a character who's just a stereotype or 'ripoff' of some other character you like, they'll still be special. because every character you create carries a piece of you with them.
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Ok so I’m going to say this from a perspective of someone who loves Talia as a character, I think it should be acknowledged more that she has a shit ton of faults. The thing is, that’s what actually makes her relationship with Damian so interesting to watch and play out.
One thing that I hate when it comes to her is her fandom going like she has no faults and every single bad thing she’s done is purely the fault of retconning or simply a bad writer. While this has happened before to her (both a retcon and certain writers who I’ll not be naming), she’s still her character.
With the al Ghul family as a whole, it’s such a pure example of generational trauma, Ra’s. Is. Not a good person or father or grandfather in the least. We’ve seen how Talia is from her upbringing, where do you think it came from? Because of the influences she had as a child, she grew into the woman and now mother she is in the League.
She loves Damian, that much is obvious (personally I think people saying she doesn’t are quite dumb), but it’s complicated. I’ve said this a million times, but Damian’s training was abuse and part of it was from Talia too, she tried her best, and I get that (said that a million times too) but the League is a horrible place for children to be raised, despite what intentions were.
When comics try to make Damian’s childhood more lavish and like he grew up as a prince, it’s so ironic, because that has never been the case.
When you try to paint it out to seem like Talia is the best mother in the world, and she constantly has been perfect (which I could actually go more into on how women are expected to be perfect mothers without faults but that’s not for rn), it’s so frustrating because also. That’s never been the case! Talia loves Damian, but she abused him too. Maybe not outright, but she still overlooked what happened in his childhood. She was apart of it. Sure maybe Ra’s was the main part of Damian’s abuse and how he turned out how he is now, but you cannot deny that Talia never took part in it. It does not matter what intentions were, it doesn’t matter if she loves Damian, in the end, it’s still the aftereffects of such a childhood.
It’s so wild how this even needs to be a conversation to talk about how Damian’s entire CANON backstory is actually how it was written and the fact that Talia has her faults.
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Im sorry I love the Zoro Mihawk Perona dynamic but the fandom trend of turning it into “Mihawk adopts Zoro and Perona as children and raises them” makes me want to die
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i find it hilarious people are complaining that extraordinary attorney woo is a ‘fast paced’ romance simply because of the fact junho fell hard at the very start. so let me get this straight: it’s not fast paced if two characters hook up in the second episode (some of these new era kdrama’s are w i l d) but it is fast paced if the ML is genuinely smitten by the FL and expresses said feelings early on (and is it even early on when we are heading into the 9/10 episode without them even dating). okay :)
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Everyone bellyaching about how Trigun Stampede is “giving away all the plot twists right in the first episode” needs to watch this video and then go outside and sit under a tree for awhile.
Bonus:
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