Thinking about this post and can we talk about how important it is that fakir was okay with Duck not loving him back?
I think it’s fair to say it’s pretty heavily implied that he’s in love with her, and it’s explicitly confirmed in the guidebook.
While Duck’s feelings for him are more nebulous and hard to pin down, from his perspective she’s in love with Mytho. We as the audience know she doesn’t actually feel that way about Mytho but from Fakir’s perspective everything she’s done so far has been for Mytho. She admitted to him in episode 12 that she had feelings for mytho and there has been nothing to dissuade him from this line of thinking. In fact, he finds her crying because mytho chose rue.
There’s this little moment I like. When Duck tells him mytho has chosen rue as his princess his eyes narrow ever so slightly.
[ID: two screenshots of Fakir from episode 25. In the first he is looking at Duck (off camera) with a serious expression. In the second he narrows his eyes slightly. End ID]
He REACTS to this news, even if it’s subtle. And he doesnt look happy about it. Fakir is upset that Mytho rejected Duck. And this seems so antithetical from what we come to expect from a romantic subplot.
So the girl he loves loves someone else… and he’s okay with that. He never tries to pressure or guilt Duck into being with him. Hell he never even mentions his feelings. She likes someone else so what’s the point. But this never dissuades him from his devotion to her. He doesn’t give her an ultimatum or make her choose. He doesn’t even seem get upset that she loves someone else. Even when she goes back to being a duck destroying his last hope of being with her romantically, even then he never wavers. He wants to spend the rest of his life with her. Whether that’s as friends or as partners or as just a simple boy and a duck, he wants to be with her. How she feels for him doesn’t matter so much as getting to share his life with her.
And I find this such a refreshing spin on tired romance tropes. “Just friends” looms large in our media so it’s lovely to see a boy in the so called “friendzone” who’s okay with it. Beyond okay he treasures the time he spends with Duck. His affection for her doesn’t hinge on reciprocation.
It’s so common for characters in fakir’s archetype to grow angry or sad that they’re not “the one,” often lashing out at the girl who doesn’t return their feelings. But instead we have Fakir who’s perfectly content to stay Duck’s friend. After all, being her friend is a gift in itself.
I just love to see a platonic relationship not treated as a lesser stepping stone to a romantic relationship. Sure, Fakir has feelings for Duck. But that in no way undermines the friendship they already have. It’s treated with all the gravity usually reserved for romantic relationships. They’re going to spend their lives together and whether that’s as friends or as lovers—that part isn’t important.
I’m tired of media treating friendships like they’ve suddenly become worthless when one party develops feelings and the other doesn’t return them. With fakiru, the lovely part is that their relationship is built on such a strong foundation it can stand on its own. We the audience are free to interpret it as romantic, platonic, or something in between, but with any reading their close friendship forms the centerpiece.
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The infantalization of Miles when it comes to lgbt hcs-Yeah,he's really soft and sweet and i agree so much that he loves cutesy things and is pastel but that in no way equals needing to be babied,much less on his own identities or anyone else's for that matter!Like i KNOW queer teenagers,i'm friends with a bunch of them because as a punk man and woman it's part of my culture to be kind to younger minorities and guide them in life,and i used to be one too and i'm afrolatino like Miles so i can tell you for a fact he not only dosen't anybody to be his 'bi awakening' or whatever but he probably knows more about gay and trans shit than you do!!!The way he looks realistically means he would've been on hrt for at LEAST a few months and in the comics he's a Moonlight fan,his team has a lesbian couple on it and he had a short story about befriending a black nonbinary person and in the movies it's so OBVIOUS he clocked Peter B's older trans man swag and Gwen's tgirl swag in Atsv but didn't say it to either of their faces outright because that's fucking weird and even violating depending on which trans person you say it too instead of Just Asking Them If They're Trans Like A Normal Person and Jefferson and Rio didn't raise a tenderqueer and he's canonically a huge nerd so obviously he's read books on his history and looks for fun lgbt stuff online.Hobie don't got jackshit to 'teach' him,he's his boyfriend who's as much of teen as him not some groody older man who talks down to him while romancing him.I bet Miles unironically uses catgender and a bunch of neopronouns and calls himself a faggot
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Sephiroth is making my brain FIZZ this is so fun.
First of all, his voice actor in advent children???
The new remake one is excellent but just doesn't capture that same level of terrifying cultured menace. The smug evenness and it's DEEP wow yeah. So smooth. High key petrifying I don't know who he is but he did an outstanding job. That bit where he asks cloud to 'give him the pleasure of taking it away?' like the way his voice lilted up in casual question like good GRIEF that was hot.
Anyway I have another hc: sephiroth would have made an EXCELLENT scientist like his parents, he's certainly got the intellect and hunger for knowledge, not to mention his ability to do research for days on end XD. Supernova actually using astrophysics equations is absolutely fantastic and makes me think that's what he'd major in.
By that logic, he'd want to be in rocket town with the rocket, and he'd most definitely want to go to space himself if it was the last thing he did (ha).
Do you think he'd tie his hair back like his mum?
Anyway I imagine if he hadn't been a soldier and instead been free to choose his own path he'd have been right there the whole time being a child genius and getting into fights with cid about who gets to be the pilot (Co pilots. Co pilots is how it's supposed to work with normal planes never mind things that breach the atmosphere).
Like I understand the amount of redemption/fix it fics that have him be a merc with cloud or whatever but I feel we're ignoring the possibilities stemming from the fact this man canonically knows modern astrophysics and that is absolutely not something you can inherit via way of ancient inhuman semi deceased life form.
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I totally get people wanting to write characters as asexual, and that is completely valid, I just find it hilarious when people write Lan Wangji as asexual.
The man who had a dream about shoving the most beautiful, annoying, trouble making cultivator to the floor and fucking him into oblivion in his own clan's public library.
The man who, first chance he got, shoved that same beautiful, annoying, troublemaking cultivator against a tree and all but tongue fucked his mouth.
The same man who constantly horny grips™️ his sword because he is probably trying to restrain himself from tearing off his crushes robes and slamming him into the ground, against a wall, a tree, any where he can.
The same man who tied his ribbon around his crushes wrists whenever he could, the same man who fucked his zhī jǐ on the ground behind a bush because he couldn't wait any longer.
That man? As asexual? Is just hilarious to me.
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hey fellas so i think i have a new favourite coach
i'm not too late for the scotty appreciation train, am i? ^^"
also i apologise profusely for getting scotty's hair texture wrong, i didn't look at the official pictures clearly enough 😔😔
check out under the cut for more scotty!!
(ps pls pls plss click on the images for high quality)
ref 1: 小红书 (xiao hong shu) id: 412181236
ref 2: myself lol
ref 3: hot lava x crap eyewear lookbook https://www.crapeyewear.com/pages/lookbooks-hot-lava-2023
ref 4: sprite for april may from phoenix wright: ace attorney
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