man i have really been thinking about worldbuilding and exposition in books recently
when i was like, i don’t know, twelve-ish, I picked up this book about a teenage girl in a spy school. and i absolutely fell in love with it - I thought it was incredibly neat how the book just seemed to drop me into the middle of the story, even starting in the girl’s second year. in fact, the main character frequently referenced events from her first year (falling in love with a civilian, things ending badly, finding secret passageways, losing her mother’s trust etc.)
and I actually really enjoyed the fact that the character had a rich and vibrant life outside of what i had read and that the book didn’t go out of its way to explain her past in flashbacks or anything. i understood the main takeaways and why she was reacting to things based on what i gleaned, and more than that i understood the growth of the character, why she was cautious in certain places but reckless in others, etc and i felt smarter for not being handed the answer on a silver platter
anyway it wasn’t until i finished the book and realized there was a sequel that i looked it up and found out that. in fact. i had started with the second book in the series.
oops.
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ok i get killing the guy who offered someone else as a sacrifice but why do they never kill the offered? Yes it's a lesson to not offer people up for death or whatever but imagine actually having to see that guy die. You offered them because you wanted to save your own life but now you have to watch their life be taken. Isn't that haunting? And all for what, a bit more time? You never want to be first but no one's willing to live with the fact that they're last and pushed everyone else over the edge to be there. Kind of sick if I'm gonna be honest.
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Mia Winters 🤝 Ashley Graham
Being too amazing for people to comprehend.
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maybe some people...but the real ones get it.
genuinely it's so wild to me as someone who got into resident evil without ever really being exposed to the fandom beforehand and watched playthroughs/learned stuff while very isolated from it and am Just Now getting into the fandom and fan-content to see how like. widely hated they are? because, what, they don't like ashley's game mechanic and a bunch of people can't seem to comprehend the way the ethan is molded and mia knew reveal is supposed to totally recontextualize what we see of her behavior in village? um....okay lol.
and here is where i started typing out an entire rant about why it makes zero sense to me that people hate on mia so much despite the fact that she is pointedly not written as the villain of the games and ethan clearly loves her a lot and she clearly loves him a lot, but then backspaced it all because actually if i go down that road i will never stop. one day i'll do an art stream again where i just sit and rant for 2 hours about it. just know: i think about this so much and it makes absolutely Zero sense to me why people hate mia when she's such an easy to understand and CLEARLY sympathetically written character. RRRRR.
and then ppl who hate ashley bc she's "whiny" and "helpless" ok well what would YOU be doing if you had been kidnapped, infected with a parasite in an incredibly violating way, were essentially a ticking time bomb, and had no training in weapons or defense to deal with this shit MUCH LESS while in a totally different country. um. i think you would be begging for help too. and half the battle is just her game mechanic it's not like it's her fault jfc.
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I've run P7N too many times to count now and I still verbally thank Lahabrea and Elidibus when they create the platforms for us to fight on
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my SI Momo with her Stand : Easy Tailor!
and heres some lore 😏
Stand Name - Easy Tailor
* Abilities- Can turn any living thing into any 'textile-based' non-living thing. eg: can turn skin and organs to thread and weave fabric from it, turn a cow into leather, and animals into fur coats. (it's basically the opposite of golden experience)
* Range- Close. the stand must touch the target to effect it, and can travel only 6ft from the user.
* Power- Mid, the effects are strong and permanent unless un-done by the user or the user is killed, but the stand itself is physically weak
* Attack- Much like golden experience, it can turn any living thing into textiles. The user is a fashion designer and has indepth knowledge of which textiles are made of what materials, meaning that they can easy turn a cow or snake into a pair of shoes or a purse using the natural materials in their bodies.
* Weakness- Not much tbh? Once something has been turned it will not revert to its original state unless willed by the user Or if the user is killed. However, the stand is only as knowledgeable as the user, so if they don't know how to make something then the stand will not know either. This requires the user to have a really good grasp on biology to effectively use their stand. (ie: knowing what exactly the human body is made of and which 'materials' to target to make what they want.) it ONLY works on living things, so things like hair, nails, and dead skin will not be affected.
Momo lore!! Born in the north-eastern state of 'Old Maineswick', Momo was raised by a fairly conservative family in a retired farm village. They learned to be self-sufficient at a young age and left home to pursue a life as a Stand User at age 18. Their Stand manifested at age 10, and brought them a lot of scorn (for various reasons), but Momo considers her silent Stand Easy Tailor to be her best friend. After leaving home they relocate to 'Newer York' where they find work as a seamstress and try to find the secret 'underground' network of Big City Stand Users. also, they're trans 💖
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