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uroboros-if · 2 months

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Personally, I'm fine with not being powerful as long as the MC can have agency and not be dependent on relationships with others for everything. As long as we're not constantly reliant on other people's affection for us to solve problems then I don't see a big issue with not being able to throw a lightning bolt at our enemies.

This is a really old ask, but I've been thinking about it again!

There are conflicts that cannot be resolved with power and might alone. Deities born with their powerful abilities tend to neglect the development of their own character; they stagnate. To be able to throw lightning bolts and summon great tides will not carry them through all hardship.

The war between gods and humans is not a question of power.

That being said, there is no shame in relying on other people; you cannot win a war on your own! Not to say you said that, but I understand an old ask was frustrated the MC cannot singlehandedly save the world.

But please rest assured! My choice of MC is not random. They are chosen for a reason, and that is because they are perfect for a conflict like this. There is only something they can do. :)

If a story does not focus on challenging the protagonist to tackle situations far greater than them creatively, given their limitations, there would be no pressure at all -- no suspense, no tension. There are stories that can execute this well, but they are rare exceptions.

Remember: there is a difference only you can make, but together, we can make a bigger impact on the world.

Thank you so much for sending an ask to lend me your thoughts, Anon 💕💕 I do agree with you that it would not do well if the MC is solely reliant on other people for help. I hope to assure you this will not be the case!

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joy-returns-in-the-morning · 1 year

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Thinking about Marvel movies again... Like yes the movies were bad. So in Ironman 2 I think there's a throwaway visual of a newspaper that claims Ironman has singlehandedly solved the war in the middle east. There is NO WAAAY lmao and really in the first movie too they fail to engage with the situation in Afghanistan in any meaningful way. It's stupid! It's frustrating! It's american military propaganda! But!! I dunno!!! There are some things in the MCU that still just absolutely captivate me. I can't deny it. For Ironman it's like - how do you overcome your past? When you've wasted your whole life being a terrible person can you really turn that around? Can you really do better? But you HAVE to do better. And one can argue he's going about it completely the wrong way (and he is a cringefail loser really), but he IS trying. That's why I like Ironman and not Dr Strange, I think. And for Captain America - oh I love the whole time travel aspect. A guy from the 40s finding himself in the present - isn't that fascinating?! Like he grew up small and dirt poor in the great depression. He had every disease and managed to pull himself through art school. Then he went to war and he couldn't have been older than his late 20s. Well, you wouldn't realize that from the movies. I think about it a lot though. Growing up poor in Brooklyn, that's gotta have an effect on a man. And Loki - he finds out that his entire life is a lie and that by birth he's the very monster his brother and friends were ready to destroy and what do you even DO with that ya know? And they go through so much, Thor and Loki, and at times they are diametrically opposed but they're still BROTHERS and you can't just throw all that love away, all that history and intimancy and they know each other better than anyone, but did they really? Ouuugh it just really gets to me okay? And there are so many interesting things in the mcu and I've daydreamed about it all so so much but the movies just. Ultimately. Do not care. About the same things I do. And that's okay, people rarely do. Care about the same things I do I mean. It's still fun for me to think about. Like it doesn't have to be perfect because the gaps give me room to explore ideas of my own. It gives me space to make it my own, to fill it with my own meanings. So I can excuse a lot of plot holes but even I have my limit. After Endgame I got sick and tired of having to explain away bad plot decisions. Captain America would NOT do that. Thanos is an idiot. Sometimes the premise is just fundamentally flawed. There's no saving it no matter how much I daydream. So I don't really keep up with marvel anymore. But... I still do think about it from time to time. It could have been so interesting.

#idk #mcu #it really does make me nostalgic at times #when i was a kid i was really pretentious and only read like ~literary~ novels on SERIOUS topics #and marvel movies were one of the first dumb things i let myself enjoy #so there's that aspect too #sometimes you just need to watch a dumb movie #but anyway these days i have better things to do #better dumb tv shows to get way too invested in lol #brb reading about early 20th century british country homes in order to write better downto abbey fanfics lol

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