As with the horse poll, please regard these options as sliders. The extent to which each one deviates from 1/6th of the total will determine the amount that canine aspect deviates from the "average."
i think it's important you all know my literature teacher did well and truly write "homoerotic desire" as a theme for Victor Frankenstein up on the whiteboard today... this dude was so gay it's getting mentioned in a Catholic school 200 years later. Teachers aren't meant to mention gay people (see: Catholic) but it was imperative, I suppose.
So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)
if i'm being absolutely completely totally honest i think that "it wasn't you" doesn't go far enough in absolving someone of the guilt of being the subject of a brainwashing or mind control plot. because at the end of the day, it was you. it was your body, your mind, potentially even your soul, being stripped of its autonomy, intimately violated and turned against you as much as anyone else. it's a kind of assault, and should be treated as such, especially in more mature narratives. i think that "it wasn't your fault" and "your shame at being made helpless and unable to control your own body and mind's involuntary responses is understandable, but you are not in any way irredeemable or unforgivable because of what was done to you" are also necessary reassurances. and i think that there should be lingering resentment in spite of words of forgiveness and miscommunication and long-term post-traumatic consequences also.
I think the funniest dynamic for arranged-marriage royalty would be a queen who came here 100% prepared to murder her future husband and rule as a widow queen in her own right, only to discover that the king is autistic as hell and responds to her wish to rule with "oh thank god please do, I don't want to be bothered by these people. I can just tell them to go bother you instead, if you really want that. I've got beetles I wanted to study."
Found this edit in my files: a mashup that I made back in 2017 of Little Witch Academia and a trailer from That One Franchise. I still quite like this edit, latter half of the source material notwithstanding.
ITS SO SAD HOW THE CREATURE PAUSES WHEN LISA ASKS IF HE LOVED THE LADY HE DID IT WITH (who is probably the lady at the start) AND HE DID 😭😭 LIKE POOR BBY THAT LADY DITCHED HIM FOR SOME GUY THAT'S PROBABLY NAMED JOHN JOHNATHAN
fully believe Lisa and Creature cannot cook-in the intro homie was eating burnt whatever it was supposed to be and lisa decided to eat cereal instead of cooking.
also suspenders and a character wrapped in bandages is legit my fav designs ever-plus a hat??? oh my god perfection