#I don't want him to have a redemption arc

[echos-gal]

ok i'm rapidly losing hope that Tech is still alive, and this sucks because it was basically the top thing i desperately wanted from this season. i wanted to see him survive. so here's my exhaustive and embarrassingly long list of reasons why he SHOULD still be alive, and if he isn't, why it was a missed opportunity. obviously no hate to the writers or anything, i love them dearly for creating this show!!!

(if you're a "Tech should stay dead for the stakes/so someone in SW stays dead for once/i hate delusional Tech stans" person, kindly keep scrolling, this ain't for you)

SEASON 2:

right from the start, Romar connects with Tech and calls himself "a survivor." HELLO???

in this same arc, Tech breaks his leg in a fall which he survives. he continues to walk on it, fighting off troopers to save Echo & Omega, showcasing his persistence and grit.

one of Phee's first lines is "better late than dead," and we know she shares a connection with Tech. she flirts with him later in this scene. it would be a shame not to reuse this line, i'm just saying....

Cid still owes Tech for racing for her in Faster. we see Cid looking miserable as she betrays the batch in Plan 99, so her playing a part in his rescue/comeback would be a nice way to show her growth. (i'm afraid there isn't enough time for this, though- as much as i thought a Cid redemption was on the horizon!)

Phee and Tech's departure is awkward, and although we have some context from season 3 (they talked more than we realized), the scene would do best if reconciled in person imo. it felt like it was setting up for something, and feels weird to leave hanging.

"don't go running off with any pirates or smugglers" could not have just been a throw away line. it set up for him to do exactly that. how fitting would it be if pirates or smugglers actually did manage to pick him up before the empire made it to the railcar crash site?

Hemlock's retrieval of the goggles shows that he sent a team to look through the wreckage. he thought there was a chance Tech survived, and may have him.

i won't go into the logistics, but big falls ARE survivable. in star wars especially. we have no idea what was below the layer of clouds/mist Tech fell through.

SEASON 3:

this is mostly CX-2 centric. their armor is very similar: the jaw/mouth shape, the hexagons over the ears, the rectangles on the chest, and the pouches/pockets.

"domicile." that is all.

CX-2 uses technology more than the other operatives we've seen, and he gets past the encryption on Phee's ship with ease.

"who are you?" was enunciated in the exact same way Tech says it to Trace and Rafa, which i definitely think was intentional.

CX-2 stops to use his rifle scope in the exact same spot where Tech and Phee stood to let down the ladders in the sea surge on Pabu.

he survives a waterfall plunge on Teth, which appears to have fooled Rex's group into thinking he'd died. the writers could have killed him off there and sent a new operative, but they chose to stick with CX-2 pursuing them to Pabu.

it's worth noting that while this CX is designated as "2," Tech's CT number is CT-9902. he is associated with the number even on a visual level: he's a dual-wielder, he wears goggles, he salutes with two fingers.

FROM A STORY PERSPECTIVE:

firstly, i am sorry and i LOVE the writers, but if you want people to accept a character's death, you've got to show his family and friends' grief. we saw no reaction from Crosshair or Phee, no tears from Hunter or Echo. it feels like fans were sadder about Tech's death than the characters in the story.

Tech seems to have been mentioned more in the second half of season 3 than the first half, which works if they want to bring him back in the finale.

the finale is called "The Cavalry Has Arrived." i really don't think you can have the cavalry (aka the bad batch) arrive without every member present. i also don't think it would feel right to play their theme without Tech there. idk, that feels incomplete!

we saw no body, and Hunter received Tech's goggles not from a trusted ally or friend, but from Hemlock. this calls into question the legitimacy of his claim that the goggles were "all he could salvage."

Tech alive and being held on Tantiss would provide a nice parallel to Echo in the first mission where we meet the batch, in TCW. and [ep 14 SPOILERS] we see that Echo is currently looking more like his TCW self, with his earpiece removed.

feels kinda sour that a character who a lot of people related to as neurodivergent representation would die just a few episodes after having a deep conversation with his sister about it.

likewise (and as a white woman i can't speak for WOC), from what i have seen, Black women are rarely the main love interest of a series! Phee is the ONLY love interest in this whole show, and it would suck to just cut off that romance before it could really become something. a lot of people wanted to see TechPhee become canon.

CX-2 is the one who destroys the marauder. it works well storywise for its pilot to have been the one to do that- the person who worked so hard modifying it, flying it, and teaching his sister to fly it. i'll be lowkey pissed if it turns out some random dude blew it up.

it's also CX-2 who invades and sets fire to Pabu. this is emotionally gripping on its own, but if he is Tech, it's even more so.

we have no idea what the operatives go through. Crosshair isn't telling, but it clearly put him in a really bad place. if Tech underwent this conditioning in his post-fall injured state, there's a chance he could come back from it. Emerie is probably the key to this, if they take the CX-2 route.

this show is all about a family trying to stay together as the Empire desperately tries to rip them apart. seeing the whole family together again - even if not everyone survives - in the finale is the satisfaction that the show ideally would go for. the last time they were all together was the season 1 finale. that was about 2 years ago in the show's timeline.

leaving Crosshair and Tech's final interactions be where they parted on the Kamino platform also feels off. Tech was the one who really vocalized the need to rescue Crosshair in season 2's finale. Crosshair, in the meantime, has changed significantly as a person. Tech's comment about Crosshair being "severe and unyielding," and unable to change this facet of his nature, is incorrect. leaving Tech dead would mean that he never gets to see this change in Crosshair, which makes me feel like a deflated balloon.

FROM MY SELFISH PERSPECTIVE!!!

give me Tech with cool scars and slightly disheveled longer hair. this is such a good opportunity for the creators to give him a sweet new look!

we never got to see Tech without his goggles on, despite Phee constantly referring to his eyes. he definitely doesn't have them right now (they're in the Archium), so we could get Mister Big Brown Eyes if he's alive. it's another missed opportunity if not, imo!

the goggles being placed in the Archium was a beautiful scene that makes me tear up whenever i think about it. it's symbolic, it's bittersweet, and it's exactly where the goggles belong. but was it closure for me? not really.

Tech is a character who became a LOT of people's favorite in season 2, including my own. why kill off a fan-favorite with an entire season to go?

yes, i desperately want a Rex and Echo series. yes, i want the batch to cameo in it, and yes... that includes Tech. making up for lost season 3 Tech content 😎

the finale will feature the zillo beast, and Tech loves the zillo beast. FREE HER! REUNITE THEM! he would love to witness her rampage.

FROM A "SURPRISE!!!!!" PERSPECTIVE

it seems like most people think Tech is either CX-2 or dead. it would be a great finale twist if we DID get CX-2's identity, it's NOT Tech, the audience loses hope, and then he shows up. i think this is actually plausible given the other assassin schematics Hemlock was looking at in Point of No Return. Tech might be in Hemlock's grasp, but not an active operative. having an enhanced clone to toy with is something Hemlock would want to keep under wraps. we see him step out of the assassin chamber at the start of that episode - if Tech is anywhere on Tantiss, i think it's here.

i think the writers have expected us to have all lost hope by now, so his finale reappearance would ideally come as a shock. the finale is almost guaranteed to be a very long episode, so we really might have quite a bit of time to explore his return, if it happens.

secret 16th episode: i know, i'm putting my clown makeup on as i type this. but the previous 2 seasons each had 16 episodes, with a two-parter finale. season 3 is just 15, with a single episode finale. TBB formally ends may 1st, so what if we get a may 4th surprise episode detailing how Tech survived? (that or an epilogue leading into a new series, which i think is more likely actually!)

#i definitely forgot some points but i just need to post this and be done with it #feel free to add your own observations 👀 #tbb tech #the bad batch #tech lives #techphee #tbb spoilers #the bad batch spoilers

[transingthoseformers]

Idea but when semi reformed!sg earthspark Optimus wants something he has a habit of sitting/standing semi close to someone and just looming instead of asking like a well adjusted adult.

"Optimus, is there something you want?"

"No"

"Are you sure?"

"..."

"Do you want a sip of my sweetened energon?"

"...yes."

#that was exactly what he wanted #you know that thing where people don't order fries but they'll sneak some off of their partner's plate? that #maccadam #transformers #sg optimus prime #sg megatron #megop #vaguely #transformers earthspark #transformers shattered glass #we need an au name for this version of him #he's so damn specific but i would be lying if I said i have not thought about a rough redemption arc for sg oppy before #after all we've done it for similar baseline characters #he would've been a lot meaner about it if it was not sg Megatron he was talking to #after all he's trying to Be Better for him #The Wolf That Loved The Hand

[tsukihimeyfan]

Just finished watching Wendigoon's video about Hisashi Ouchi and had a terrible, awful, no-good DP prompt idea come into my head. Come suffer with me.

So the Fentons constantly threaten to tear ghosts apart "molecule by molecule" right? What if they managed to make an anti-ghost weapon that made good on that threat? One that tore apart ghostly DNA or ectoplasm, and just straight-up turned any ghost hit by it into green goop, melted within seconds like Danny's clones?

So I imagine that at some point after destroying a couple of ghosts with this new weapon, Jack and Maddie finally manage to corner Phantom somehow. Terrified, Danny is left with no choice but to try to explain who and what he is, hoping to all the Ancients that it will be enough to stop them from hurting him.

Unfortunately for him, the Fentons don't really listen at first and shoot him point blank.

Danny puts his arms up to protect himself and closes his eyes, trembling in abject fear, imagining himself melting away into a pile of goop right in front of his parents. He desperately hopes it's quick and painless. He waits for the end.

...and waits

... and waits

The Fentons and Danny both feel shocked, but Danny eventually laughs (a bit hysterically) and continues explaining his accident, intensely relieved that his half-human nature had protected him from this weapon.

Once he explains everything, the Fentons apologize with tears in their eyes for how they had treated him. They accept him for who he is, and promise to do their best to learn more about ghosts' true natures. They decide to use their inventions in an actually scientific, ethical way, to learn more about this culture and people. Danny and Jazz are both ecstatic. Everything seems perfect. Sure, Danny might have thrown up and passed out the minute they got home from that little talk, and sure, his skin turned a bit red and painful where he got hit, but that was the extent of it, right? His human half purged the effects of the weapon from his body, no harm no foul.

But they all forget that while Danny's DNA is half human, it is also half ghostly in nature, and the weapon just tore through those parts of him like bullets through paper.

A week later, Danny's skin starts to feel like it's burning

#danny phantom #dp prompt #prompt #basically the Fentons accidentally give Danny extreme radiation poisoning and have to deal with the consequences #maybe Vlad could get a redemption arc in this #finally realizing that Maddie is not as perfect as he imagined her to be #and using everything in his considerable power to help save his Little Badger #could also be #DPxDC #dp x dc #if they end up reaching out to the justice league for their resources and expertise on non-human biology and radiation exposure #and of course every single one of them would end up loving Danny and wanting to take him away from these people who hurt him so bad #or at least help him recover and watch over him after #they wouldn't be fans of the Fentons to say the least #if anyone writes anything on this you can take it anywhere you like #but I'm personally a sucker for Angst with a Happy Ending #so in my imagination Danny manages to make it through the almost 3 months of suffering and eventually recovers #with a ton of new friends (and maybe a lover) for his troubles #but he'd never be the same #and I don't think he'd ever look at Jack and Maddie the same either #don't look up pictures of Hisashi Ouchi btw #only made that mistake once #danny fenton #btw for those who don't know but don't want to watch a 90min video about it #Hishashi Ouchi was a poor man who was exposed to so much radiation that his chromosomes were torn to shreds #**READ THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES AT YOUR DISCRETION CW IT'S NOT PRETTY IF YOU DON'T LIKE THINKING ABOUT NASTY STUFF/BODY HORROR DON'T READ #then his skin started to slough off #then the lining of his lungs. then the one on his intestines. then on almost every one of his organs #He lived for 83 days bc the best doctors in the world were trying to save him #but Yes it was probably as excruciating as it sounds especially bc his mind was intact for most of it

[thatharringrovehoe]

You're doing great sweetie 🥰

#i have acquired a new babygirl #i fully support him burning his father to ashes #i don't want to fix him. he's perfect the way he is #also sorry for everyone who follows me for harringrove because I'm going to be reblogging so much of this fucking disaster child #i love him #he ruined his abusive father's entire life in one feel swoop #and even choreographed a dance number for it #the DRAMA #dabi #touya todoroki #mha #fuck endeavour's redemption arc #let his son murder him on live television you cowards

[tasmanianstripes]

People need to practice minding their own damn business

Don't come into people's inboxes giving unsolicited advice or criticizing their personal stuff. Don't reblog somebody's posts saying how much you hate it and their opinions.

Don't like somebody's characterisation, AUs or the kind of art they post? It might even annoy you?

Okay, cool. Go make your own post. Block them. Be a little hater about it to your friends. It's good for your soul!

But don't be goddamn rude to people. Don't make it their problem.

"I don't like what this artist likes mah mah mah"

Here's a wild idea;

Artists...don't need to cater to you. You are not entitles to their work. Nobody on the internet should coddle you and post only stuff you like.

Shocker, I know.

#thylacines can talk #Yes this is about PK #When you like an antagonist people expect you to be a negative nancy 24/7 and put a disclaimer everytime you make something with them about #how much they suck as a person #Guess what! Having to shittalk your fave all the time to not risk being 'that kind of fan'...isnt fun. It's miserable even! #Anmoying as fuck too! Yes I know he did this unforgivable thing. I'm not an idiot. That's why I like PK. Fucker's got nuance #Is he a bad person? Absolutely. Will I talk about him being a bad person and the horrible things he did? Also yes. When I want to. It's #very fun to explore that part of the story and how it influenced their victims. Will I give you a fucking essay on why he's a bad person #everytime I want to post something funny or lighthearted about him? No. Piss off. #I cannot only focus on angst and heart-wrenching part of the story. I also like to make stuff of the lighthearted parts of my AUs. #And I don't feel like writing down an entire disclaimer and breakdown of how PK's and WL's redemption arcs went to justify it #Having to constantly put disclaimers to justify you liking a morally grey and bad characters is EXHAUSTING. Only being able to talk about #this character with someone when it proteins to how awful they are is EXHAUSTING. #YES they're bad people. But going into peoples dms or inbox or tags and talking to them about how ugly and bad and evil their fave is #exhausting to deal with and NOT fun. Like I. KNOW. LIKE LET ME LIKE A DEEPLY FLAWED NUANCED FUCKED UP CHARACTER IN PEACE WITHOUT HAVING TO #ALWAYS PUT A DISCLAIMER OUT THERE ABOUT HOW AWFUL THEY ARE. GOOD GOD. #It's especially annoying because I like characterisation of PK that is very morally grey. To me purely evil and not compassionate PK is #fun...in a short run. I much prefer a man whos riddled with guilt over what he did even if he believed it to be necessary evil and who dies #Because of his regret. I love the idea of a father who sacrificed his own children so that no parent had to lose their own. And the tragedy #of him deeply loving PV and still doing what he did. A good person who was faced with an impossible choice and committed unspeakable #cruelty for what he believed to be the greater good. A man who doesnt believe he's deserving of redemption not forgiveness and who doomed #himself. I like a nuanced morally grey PK with LAYERS. Treating him as a purely evil uncaring person who never loved his children sucks ALL #the fun out of him for me. And don't get me wrong I LOVE villains who are evil for evil's sake. I LOVE old school Disney villains who are #scumbags just because they can be and have a little bit a swag to it. But PK just. Isn't that kind of villain to me. #I don't even like calling him a villain. An antagonist? Maybe. A morally grey character that kicked off the entire story with his one act #of unspeakable cruelty? Yup. But I don't see him as the villain of HK. #Wow that was a long rant #Well I got that out of my system at least #I love the Pale King and I could talk for HOURS about why I love him as a character and about his actions. It's just tiring when I have to #do it to justify myself and my lighthearted content of him.

[weedle-testaburger]

latest video essay idea: elaborate character analysis of captain quark

#personal crap #he's surprisingly central to a lot of the games when you actually think about it #like he's one of the core villains of the first two gets a dysfunctional redemption arc in the third #size matters is about him trying to find his family and secret agent clank involves him bigging up his achievements #then in the future games he's like an incompetent aide to ratchet and like recruits him in a4o and q force #i don't remember what he does or doesn't do in nexus and don't know about rift apart yet though #so I'll have to like refresh myself #but i kinda really want to do this now

[shieldsurf]

out of the big 4 het/canon fairy tail pairings jerza is by Far the worst imo like. he needs to leave her alone i'm so serious and the fact that mashima wrote in a 7 year age gap for no reason is Not helping... erzas ass is NINETEEN the first time jellal makes an open pass at her i don't care that they used to be the same age it is fucking weird. gruvia is a close second though because while yes we objectify men here sir and i live to serve women juvia's creepiness is really just too much like at a certain point it starts to feel really gross and the fact that gray seems to fall for her by the end of the anime/manga just reeks of coercion. not even bringing up how genuinely awful juvia's character writing is she gets like 5 minutes of being interesting before getting instantly reduced to a creepy stan who completely revolves around gray and has less depth than the average bossfight of the week. i guess its equality that erza and mirajane are some of the best characters in this story (which is admittedly a low bar considering half of their personality is being subjected to the most voyeuristic shots possible) so mashima had to balance it out by making juvia one of the worst

#the other two pairings nalu and gajevy are honestly fine. i'm more pilled on gratsu and lucana or luli but gajevy is actually a decently #sweet redemption relationship if you forget that gajeel was genuinely the worst person alive in his villain arc before mashima decided to #fast track him to the most likable character in the show. #on top of that while gajeel and levy become a Unit pretty fast after tenrou island they do still have like #unique personalities and things about them that help them stand apart from the other. unlike juvia with gray. #nalu might not be my pairing of choice for either natsu or lucy or even my favorite big 4 pairing but it is pretty good. i really don't hav #any notes they have their own personalities and have chemistry. i think they're sweet together. they work fine. #the moral of the story is don't read or watch fairy tail it's just shittier one piece #tender age of 11 and it gave me incurable brain fungus and now i live in my wonderful little made up world where everyone in fairy tail is #gay and trans and the women aren't treated like meat half the time. this is my trash of choice and my defining character sin dont be like m #but if you're that curious read the manga the anime is insanely drawn out #and the animation is aaaawful #the only reason im watching it is as background noise for when i work #im gonna tag this as #fairy tail #for people who want to blacklist #in the future

[smallblueandloud]

if i had a nickel for every time leverage redemption got me to write about a complicated parent-child relationship in which one of the characters is a main character and the other is serving as outsider pov to their loved one's character development (as caused by the team) after the two of them haven't seen each other in 20+ years i'd have two nickels. which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice

#sb and l rambles #sb and l is writing #leverage #levred #canon already did archie and nate's dad so all i'd need for a full set is... nana? and harry's daughter? #incredible. #i kinda want to see archie in redemption but also it is probably thematic that we don't see him much. #(redemption critical: also having archie would require the redemption writers to put thought into parker's arc) #fic: showed me love was all around #fic: you've come to shake my hand

[faggyangel]

Nate’s bad actions are taken so much more seriously by the narrative itself than everyone else’s that fandom starts to think they’re just being principled by pretending he’s evil and wasn’t just in need of some cathartic yelling.

No, I agree, I think in some cases, the fandom's hatred for a character of color is mostly based on just them being racist but I think in this case, it's actively both the show and the fandom. Like, the show itself frames Nate in a certain light that it just doesn't for white characters. He's always been framed as a "loser" or "vicious" even if he's valid in the way he's feeling. In one episode, Ted worries about something crushing Jamie's soul and Nate laughs a little but when Ted looks at him, Nate apologizes and we move on. It's small moments like this that I feel lack nuance. Yes, Nate wanting to hurt Jamie is not a progressive or healthy way of dealing with his anger towards him HOWEVER Jamie did belittle, bully, and harass him in his place of work. That is WORK PLACE HARASSMENT that Nate had to deal with every time he clocked in. Both things can be true at once. Nate is dealing with his anger in an unhealthy way AND Nate has a right to that anger. (Funny how everyone was so concerned with Keeley and Jack having a work place affair and Trent being yelled at in the locker room but no one wanted to acknowledge the severity of what Nate was going through for years). This is never acknowledged, not by the show or the fandom. The fandom doesn't want to sympathize with him, they don't want nuance. They want to hate him. They don't just want to see him as a bad person, they don't want to see him as a person at all. They wanted Nate to just forgive and forget, they wanted him to be quiet about how he was feeling. They liked him better when he was small and "meager" so that they could infantilize or ignore him. They never had to come to terms with the fact that Nate is a full person, with anger and kindness and pain and sadness. It reminds me a lot of when Sam was angry with Ted for bringing Jamie back on the team, that anger lasting for one episode when Led Tasso was brought in to bully everyone, forcing Jamie to step up and defend them. Then, after that, Sam had apparently forgiven him? They're friends now, I guess, without Jamie ever having to directly apologize to Sam specifically, without ever having that conversation one on one. Sam just moves on. That's what the fandom wants Nate to do. They don't want him to step outside that box and get angry at all their "beloved, defenseless white characters." Sam is written without flaws, he's only ever briefly angry but for the most part, he's just happy Sam so the fandom loves him. Unlike Nate, who has taken out his insecurities on other characters. Nate, who can be mean or sad or flawed in a way that the fans don't like because it's the wrong kind of flawed. They want an excuse to hate him, they always have, they've always had an unexplainable anger towards him and the show gives them a lot of excuses because he's never framed with too much nuance, his actions are always treated with severity while other characters (primarily white ones) are treated with leniency. When Rebecca has this same kind of arc, she's forgiven and sympathized with. When Jamie has this kind of arc, he's forgiven and sympathized with. I've seen videos on youtube called "10 minutes of Jamie Tartt being iconic" and most of it is just him bullying people (guess what, it's mostly Nate). I'm not hating on that video or the person who made it, but I haven't seen the same kind of attitude towards Nate. People don't see his confidence as iconic, or his awkwardness as relatable, or his anger as real, or his sadness as vulnerable, or his frustration with the team and Ted as understandable. They don't want to, the show doesn't force them to. Anyone who says they don't understand Nate's anger is choosing not to understand. It's easier for them to not acknowledge the failings of their favorite white characters or their own biased feelings towards complex characters of color.

#you guys gotta stop asking me about nate i get way to into it i have a sociology project guys #im kidding please keep sending me stuff like this i love talking about nate i could do it until i die #ive seen people saying “well until he gets a redemption arc i hate him!” girlypop what do you think is happening?? #“nate's evil!1!1!” And is Evil Nate in the room with us right now? #does any of this make sense or is it just me babbling for like ten hours #nate is amazing and complicated and beautiful and i want him carnally <3 #thats another thing > people don't view nate as conventionally attractive and beautiful #which makes them hate him even more #SUCKS FOR YOU I WANT HIM SO BADLY #this got long im sorry as always #nate shelley #ted lasso #nate tag

[lgbtlunaverse]

I don't think i'm ever gonna write endeavor-centric fic because i care about all of his kids way more than i care about him, and most of my thoughts about him just relate back to his kids again. But like... man wouldn't it have been great if instead of that weirdly timed completely unhinted at backstory reveal and what basically amounts to an arc regression presented as development, we could have had Enji defeated on the ground, and have his *kids* and his *atonement* be the reason he gts backup. He can't die here, he hasn't seen Touya yet, he hasn't done enough to help his family heal from the hurt he caused yet.

How great would it have been if we got a callback to THIS?

"I don't wanna die, I still haven't shown him anything"

Touya hasn't gotten to see ANY of Enji's attempts at atonement. The boy who ran home desperately after 3 years in a come because he thought something *must* have changed, and was crushed when it wasn't. It's finally happened and he was the only one who didn't get to see it.

If redemption is the way the todofam arc is going, then THAT'S what Enji nees to do. Show Touya he's changed. That should be his main priority right now. Yes he needs to beat afo to save the world in-universe but this is a story and we as readers are automatically going to care more about the arcs of the characters we've spent over 300 chapters with. Having Enji get up because he wants to get back *to his children* and be the kind of father they deserve is more satisfying than just having the good guy punch the bag guy because that's his job. We almost got there with him thinking about Shouto and Touya and hoping they were safe but we could've gotten a lot more.

#bnha 357 #bnha 356 #i don't think horikoshi is a bad writer i've just been frustrated with these last few chapters #i've never been fully on board with the endeavor redemption arc but i can still have opinions on its execution #though i also don't want him to die like some people #that'd be wildly unsatisfying

[look-at-the-stars-tonight]

i've been thinking about simon heap a Lot during this reread

#septimus heap #simon heap #he's. hm #he's just trying to survive and also. he is Barely an adult #like does that excuse his actions??? not at all #but i do think the fact that he was able to LEAVE the darke behind him was kind of amazing #cause everyone else seems completely consumed by it #like. he Chose to turn his back on it #partly cause his silly little plan failed and his master died and he had no other options really #idk #like septimus's deep mistrust of him is SO SO SO valid #because marica is far too forgiving for her own good #but also i don't mind his redemption arc as much as i did the first time i read it #cause the first time i read the books i was like nine and so annoyed that he tried to KILL his brother #KIDNAPPED his sister #and was just an all around asshole just because he didn't get an apprenticeship he felt entitled to #but also #i've spent most of my life Wanting things and have been lucky enough to get most of them #and usually if i don't get something i very quickly find a new target #but i get simon better now. if i wanted something Badly enough and a little kid got it over me. maybe turn into a villain too #maybe #anyways i'm excited to see him in todhunter moon

[gh-0-stcup]

Aw, everybody was just terrible to Spike. I actually kind of hate how his storyline was done - he helps the Scoobies constantly, can't even get a slice of friendliness after protecting Dawn & Joyce and fighting Glory.

Like they're all pretty chill with Anya, who is entirely unremorseful about her demonic activities. But Spike, who is similarly harmless and helpful, who genuinely seems to be making an effort to be friendly to them, gets treated like actual garbage.

#don't know why the show had to fight against his redemption arc so hard #it just feels a little out of place in a show with faith and anya and willow and angel #also the way they act like they're entitled to his help and like they're totally justified in talking down to him constantly #when in the grand scope of things he really hasn't done that much #at least in comparison with a lot of the other characters whose pasts are largely accepted #it seems like spike is the only one who they won't allow to move on #btvs season 5 #i'm only on 5x14 and i don't quite recall if the vibes really change #but i have a feeling they don't #and i'm not saying their reactions are unjustified or that they're obligated to be nice to spike #just that it makes this section of the show hard to watch at times #like the show doesn't want to commit to the storyline #either do the arc or make him an ally of convenience/boredom #but if you do the arc don't have your main heroes bully him for seasons on end #it gets exhausting #btvs #spike

[wereh0gz]

Ok finally read the new issue and man sonic really needs to change his approach when talking to surge

#ramblings #idw sonic spoilers #like stop trying to befriend her she clearly doesn't want that #i get that he's trying to help and yeah she is being kind of unreasonable #but like who wouldn't be unreasonable after all That #to be fair i don't know how he would properly approach this either #but i know he needs to at least drop the friendship thing because it's not working #tbh i think someone else should try to help her actually #cus maybe just seeing his face is triggering a sort of trauma response #she was specifically made to destroy him. that's all she really knows after all #tails i think is too close to sonic to be able to do much #so maybe amy? #it doesn't look like we'll see surge and kit for a while so we'll have to wait and see how their redemption arc goes #IF they get one that is #i hope they do.. i feel really bad for them #also tails should get checked for a concussion #and sonic for that ankle #and the electrocution #they all should go to a hospital actually #that fight was brutal on all parties

[alteredphoenix]

There’s a part of me that wants to do a W*W/Danny Phantom multi-chaptered fic that’s set in Shadowlands but via Vlad’s POV, where the Veil between Reality gets torn apart and the Ghost Zone starts to get subsumed by the presence of the Maw and the Army of the Endless. (This being a very vague idea, just imagine some shit happens to Danny, or Vlad, or both, and they just get caught up in the whole thing.)

Also Vlad takes one look at Sylvanas and realizes that there’s someone just as pathetic and cowardly than he is, if not more so, and while it might not give him a complete Change of Heart it does make him Think.

#like. between the two he's much more pathetic and petty #but him listening to someone ramble on about how much she wants to 'free the world from the shackles of its prison' #when it becomes increasingly clear from the onset she's being played like a fool #and have her dead to rights the second she gets the other half of her fractured soul back as payment #makes him realize that there really are some ppl that have worse it than him #this is just an idea #but i can think of a number of stans in the w*w fandom that would flip the fuck out #if they should see this story & it's a fic that isn't giving her the redemption arc most AUs she's in give her #but you know i'm past that point where i honestly don't care anymore what the reaction is #so it'd at least make for a good exercise between how one villain looks at another villain and has an epiphany #a'la 'holy shit and i thought *i* was being petty' #fanfiction #mywriting

[afandomroom]

Talking about Morro again: In my opinion (which has changed since I first started posting here) Morro did not have a redemption arc per-say but rather an acceptance and retirement from villainy arc. 

Meaning that the story we’ve seen for him so far was, in my eyes, a story about him accepting that he wasn’t the green ninja and finding peace for himself, and leaving villainy behind. He’s intent on doing the right thing when it comes down to it, and has clearly found peace in the departed realm, but hasn’t tried apologizing or making right on what he’s done. 

So he’s not gone through a full redemption arc, but he’s ready to go through one if that’s the path he wants to take or finds himself needing to. 

#Again this all my opinion on the matter. this is how I view his story #and if it wasn't obvious #by how I sometimes mention Morro redemption arcs #and him returning to the monastery #I do want him to have one #I just don't think he's quite had one yet #Ninjago #Morro Ninjago #Aries posts

[yeahskam]

what I ship Rafe with:

who the OBX writers want me to ship Rafe with:

#i've been saying since the beggining I don't want him to have a redemption arc #with him being played by an attractive white man the girlies will forgive him in a second #getting a pogue gf? sounds like a redemption arc to me #unless they give them a bonnie and clyde storyline but that's also meh #obx #outer banks #rafe cameron