Potentially unpopular opinion: As much as I want a sequel to Top Gun Maverick, I kind of hope they don't make one.
Why?
Full disclosure, it's not just the fact that it was perfect and I have no idea what they'd do for a sequel that could be as good. It's partly because as it stands, Hangster could be a very real thing. As in, Rooster didn't have a Penny. We got enough subtext to hit us in the face with a brick, and no female love interest to ruin it.
Unless they give me a sequel where Rooster has suddenly acquired a baby, his bestie Phoenix wants fuck all to do with it (just because she's a girl doesn't mean she knows shit about babies Rooster), and Hangman ends up helping him care for it until Mav shows up and is like, where did that kid come from? Then chaos.
...did I just write the plot to Three Men and a Baby? Yes. Yes, I did.
Top Gun 3 - Rooster has to raise a baby that someone leaves on Mav's doorstep while the old man is busy crashing more experimental planes. Then poor Rooster and Hangman have to play hide the baby from snoopy admirals with sticks up their asses while teaching new recruits not to die, and arguing over naming the kid. And maybe figuring out who the dad is??
Who was the mother you ask? Does it matter if they left a kid on Mav's doorstep? Clearly insane.
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The Darkling is so sad to me because he drives himself insane. He willingly rips himself apart based on the hope of not being alone. He’s shitty, but it’s like seeing a dog chewing it’s own foot to escape. There’s parts of him that were good, that wanted justice, that wanted to help, but he’s forced himself to be alone in his own misery that he just can’t care anymore. It’s really pathetic and the only sliver of empathy I have for him. (But I’m also a god damned simp who supports villain rights and wrongs so there that too)
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imagine being Ashton, reuniting with the rest of the party after spending who knows how long with the 3 MOST people people in Exandria (a sopping wet disoriented hanger of a man, an enthusiastic intern with question pads about the Apocalypse and DENI$E) and you learn that your aeormaton friend now has a wife (???) and your party grandpa just had a threesome with someone who you are possibly romanticly interested in
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No one will be safe over this post because I will actually be insane over the fact Leon has canonically religion trauma and I will force you to read my hc's. Someone on twitter has been translating the Japanese version of the Vendetta book and it was talked about Leon will quote bible verses on long stakeouts out of boredom before getting mad at himself for it. (Here's the link to the translation)
So, let's begin.
Leon was 100% a perfect little Christian boy, and I have a gut wrenching feeling his father was either a priest or a deacon. Either way, Leon was a good boy and everyone loved him. I like to really think his faith in God immediately dropped when he arrived at the gas station in RE2r because he would go: "What the—" almost like he's never cursed before.
Like every religious kid, you knew cursing was a huge no-no and maybe Leon had fear in it still as he suffered through unimaginable hell. I wouldn't doubt Leon had a continuous train of thought of: "Why would God...?" and "But God is supposed to—" because that's what he was taught from day one. So, Leon losing faith in all humanity and God, there's a reason why he turns that way years later in 2013 to binge on alcohol.
Though, the idea of Leon being bored on long stakeouts to quote the bible and recalling memories of perhaps Sunday school and youth group, makes him only that pissed off because it used to be normal. Leons' life was normal once and I don't doubt that bothers him.
But this trails into RE6, the little note of Leon expressing his regrets of not ending his life back in 1998. I wouldn't doubt Leon has a lot of things to say to God, let alone, talking about his anger to God. He had valid reasons to feel this way, valid thoughts of "Why would God treat us like this if He cared?".
Younger Leon was still learning new things because he'll have that religious mindset for a while. (Perhaps in the middle of RE2 and 4) I like to think back in 2 Claire definitely noticed it first when he would awkwardly go "...Dammit" or something. It would make her giggle at it, hearing him use bigger curse words through the trauma, finally loosening up on God and the commandments.
Moving on, Leon wholeheartedly despises his religious background and avoids talking about it like the Incident. I believe when he's in those life threatening situations of almost dying he would go on a rant of a prayer.
"God, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm so scared, don't let me die I promise I'll change. Please, forgive me."
Though, when he miraculously lives, he shoves it under the rug until he lies in bed recounting those moments on his fingers as he falls asleep.
Leon lying in bed at night recalling himself begging to God to save him bothers his subconscious more than it should. Wonder if binging the alcohol was a good idea, using God's name in vain, so on. It 100% keeps him awake at night, feeling the hot waves of guilt of disappointing God like this. Maybe, just maybe, Leon would visit a church once in a blue moon to clean his slate.
Standing in the back of the crowd on a Sunday morning, just some dude wearing a leather jacket in blue jeans watching these people sing and praise their God with blood on their hands from their own sins. Just maybe, it makes Leon feel like filth standing there and stressing he'll burst into flames for what he's done in the past 20-something years. The trauma will never leave him and he knows that, accepting that it'll follow him even into the grave.
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