#I just know I won't be the same once her arc is fully available

[ilikedetectives]

Me before evil run: idk if Minthara is worth it, giving up 3 companions just for her is a steep price to pay...

Me 20 mins into Act 2: I will fistfight the Absolute, I will make a deal with the Devil, I will turn Faerûn upside down, I will break every oath, I will give up all the other companions, there is nothing I wouldn't do if it means her agency is never taken away from her again. Her mind is hers alone and anyone who wishes otherwise will have to go through meeeee.

#I NEED more Minthara content *SOBBING* #got this game for Karlach but now have the unexpected Minthara brainrot #to the team who worked on Minthara arc I'd like to hug you all and send you my therapy bills #I just know I won't be the same once her arc is fully available #minthara baenre #minthara brainrot

[total-drama-brainrot]

i think we should let priya have a villain arc

just imagine. you've won the competition your parents have trained you for your whole life, the obstacle between you and your own career aspirations (she wants to go to med school) but when you come home, broken and beaten, with the glory they forced you to seek and a million dollars to boot, you're told you the reward you worked so hard to win won't even be available to you until your in your forties.

then you're pressured to be financially independent regardless of the money sitting in your savings. and encouraged to compete once again, doing the same song and dance you've practised since birth, and you know if you win again the money will be locked away once more, because why wouldn't it be? you realise that it was never about winning Total Drama, it was about the show itself. you're never going to be free from the clutches of it so long as your parents hold it in such high regard.

(you don't understand. you did everything your parents wanted. you won the game! why wasn't it enough? why aren't you enough?)

then you think back to your friends notebook- the one outlining how your parents' behaviour is abusive, the one that jammed a wedge between the two of you when her analysis of your home life was revealed. and you stop to think, what if she was right? what if their idolisation of the show that's brought you nothing but pain and suffering really did lead them to abusing you? you're not entirely ignorant of your own social shortcomings, and you're fully aware that a lot of your awkwardness is just the result of the way they raised you.

and you remember, throughout the years and years of training, how your parents drilled into you the mindsets and methods of the shows' various antagonists. "the villain never wins," they'd tell you, and yet heather/alejandro snagged a win in world tour? an antagonist was the antithesis of everything they'd raised you to be, but being the hero had won you nothing in the end.

so why not be the villain instead?

disgracing everything they spent your whole childhood teaching you would either sour them against you- thus leaving you free of their influence- or sour them against the show they love so much. it's a win-win!

(...you're so sick of living up to everyone else's expectations.)

#i think she deserves to go apeshit. as a treat. #writing this in second person for immersion i guess? #total drama #td2023 #td priya #character analysis #kinda drafty in here (posts from the drafts)