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beanghostprincess · 3 months

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headcanon time: i wrote a post about how it’s possible that saboala have been dating for a long time but oda hasn’t told us yet. what if koala was crying over sabo sleeping for three days just because she didn’t want to lose her wonderful boyfriend??? (i know friends can do this but i love them so much as a ship and i want them to be canon so bad adiós)

Look, Oda isn't making it canon because that's how he works. He once said that he believed he wasn't good at writing love stories and, to be honest? Average writer behavior. Imposter syndrome. This man has such a powerful way of telling stories and especially about love (platonic or not. But I'm talking about romance here). And he never says it's romantic but damn he knows how to write. So I wholeheartedly believe Saboala should be canon because look at them. I know I don't have many arguments for this but LOOK AT THEM. THAT'S NOT FRIENDSHIP BEHAVIOR THERE'S SOMETHING THERE. I DON'T KNOW HOW TO EXPLAIN IT. IT'S THE ENERGY THE VIBES. They're giving Usokaya. 100%. Like they're obviously canon but they're not canon and then OPLA literally said "fuck it, Oda we need romance in here we are NETFLIX if there's no romance we die" and Oda said "Usopp and Kaya" without hesitation (Real conversation I literally heard it I was there I was the script). So,, Just believe whatever you want. He's doing the same with Hibari and Koby and at this point I just consider interpreting OP relationships however you want. I think Yamato and Ace was romantic too and we will never know because this man writes romance in the most obvious of ways but never makes anything canon. The closest we've ever been to a canon romance is Sanji and Pudding and that didn't even work out at the end (well, not really? Because, and this is a manga spoiler btw don't keep reading yadda yadda -> She shows up again. She's gonna be important to the plot. I can't believe this is happening in the anime like, in what? Three weeks? Am I right? I think I am. I miss her so bad. Like-- She's so ending up with Sanji. I am not even trying to make an argument or something I just think it should be obvious seeing how the story has progressed. If they don't end up together I'm gonna fail as a writer because it's just so obvious).

Basically, Saboala is pretty much canon in the OP standard for romance.

#wci remains the most romantic arc but it just makes sense because it's literally about sanji #what koala and sabo have could really just be friendship but there's just SOMETHING that follows irl romantic behavior idk #like-- usopp and kaya never explicitly say they're in love but it's OBVIOUS because of the connotations and inspirations in other tropes #sabo and koala are just mustang and riza from fma #like seriously what the hell they're married and they're not even canon #my fiancé said yesterday that queerbait doesn't exist in op because op doesn't have romance anyway and all couples are treated equally #and honestly yeah that's so real #one piece #saboala #usokaya #sanpu #kobybari #yamace #damn i mentioned so many ships

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maddy-ferguson · 6 months

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zionists love the pinkwashing angle so much you would think israel has the most queer-friendly policies on earth but they don't even have gay marriage there

#like okay ig...#i get the strategy it's the whole we're the only democracy in the middle east it's actually just like europe here arabs are so uncivilized #we hate them even though we literally live here thing #which is like straight out of the colonizer handbook. as is everything else they do #but i mean wouldn't that be the bare minimum for the we love gay people here they hate gay people there pr campaign #and the pinkwashing works i've literally seen it from people who would be my mutuals' mutuals. this summer. just crazy #but it's not surprising that it would work on white gays or just western gays because people will do tiktoks about how they're 'illegal in #74 countries!' (idk how many it is) like they're the victims (when it's countries they'll never go to) not the actual gay people who live #there #which is just so telling #and queerness/other things like feminism being weaponized is always so frustrating you'll literally see people who hate the gays every #day of the year pretend they're gay rights activists in the name of killing palestinians. and in the name of colonialism in general #and of course even if you could get gay married there that wouldn't make it better. but you can't even do that so like. okay ig?#do you think gay israelis are effectively utilizing gay power by killing the people whose land they've been colonizing for decades #and like i say: brf slt

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smolalienbee · 2 years

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1x05 except Geralt and Jaskier are already married by the time they meet Yennefer // 226 words of some crack-y nonsense

“Jaskier. Is she flirting with me?”

“Is she - Geralt, are you really asking that?”

Geralt doesn’t respond at first. He turns to look at Jaskier, brows furrowed. Of course he’s asking that - there’s no good reason why Jaskier would still need clarification - except Jaskier continues to just look at him, as though waiting for him to say something.

“We’re married,” Geralt elaborates slowly. “Why would she flirt with me if she knows I’m married to you?”

“You - if she - you think she knows?”

“Yes.”

“Geralt, are you forgetting the part where she quite literally asked you if I was just your friend? To which you responded with… oh, what was it? Right, nothing. You never did respond to that question. And this entire time you’ve really thought that she knows?”

“Hm.”

“Oh, don’t you dare just hm this, husband mine, your absolute lack of words is how we’ve ended up in this situation in the first place! And no, don’t give me that look, either, you know very well I couldn’t have said anything while I was still choking on my own blood.”

A third voice joins them then and they both look over at where Yennefer stands, right in front of them. In fact, she has been standing there for the entire duration of their conversation.

“...You two do realize that I’m still here, right?”

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danmeichael · 1 month

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i need to work on my chengxian fics....

#one of them isn't even chengxian really it's mostly just a character study of jiang cheng and his relationship with wwx #and i've built it up in my brain as my magnum opus which makes it impossible to complete #“oh danny you ship chengxian?” they live in my soul and take me apart piece by piece #it's not so much that i ship them romantically it's that they're two skeletons in the same pair of ruins #who were so close together where they were buried that when archaeologists found them #centuries later when half their bones are dust #and the world around them has changed #they are reconstructed as one body. wwx's femur to jc's pelvis. jc's skull to wwx's c1 vertibrae #the version of their relationship in my brain is too weird for platonic cheng&xian likers i think #they are yuri to me #in the way that yuri is about the love between two people as ambiguous and ephemeral and all-consuming #they have the same relationship that you had with your childhood best friend who you don't love anymore but you also Do still love #just because it's part of you just because it's in your blood #even though you haven't talked to them in years #and who you think you could have married if you had both chosen just one thing differently.#“danny that's an insane thing to say about a pairing you just said you don't ship romantically” well maybe you just don't understand love.

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jlf23tumble · 20 days

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https://twitter.com/xrckdyou/status/1777312221044834377

The man could not be more clear. And he is so incredibly kind about it despite the fact it obviously bothers him for the reasons he says and likely others. So sad the people who want to “free him” are those keeping him in a box.

Thanks for this! I'd love to see the whole thing, but it's been harder to get full interviews this go round (that's on me, gotta dig, don't have time). That said, I did a quick lurk around twitter and tumblr, and jesusssssssssssss, he said what he said and was pretty clear, even resigned about it, and yet! You either get variations of a) wahh, he's gaslighting us again (which, lmao, nope) or b) well, he didn't deny it, LOLZ, #married. When I tell you he resents his fans, dot dot dot, oof, yeah, it's honestly no wonder

#i think my favorite is the people who 'don't understand' why he's saying this and how it doesn't 'help him'#idk maybe he doesn't want people speculating about his private life? even--ESPECIALLY--the so-called supportive ones?#i have my own UO and it's that a couple of things can be true that people can't/won't get--maybe just maybe larry was realTM a decade ago #and it ain't real now #or maybe it's a hot mess month to month and it causes him quite a bit of pain actually #and what's to deny in that scenario? why does he have to pick a scab to feed these demons? why does he OWE anyone that?#people scream how they want the truth but in reality? no they do not!#because it comes back to the same old same old: how 'supportive' is the larry fanbase if/when one of them comes out and says pointblank:#yeah we were a thing but that was a decade ago and we've moved on #thanks for respecting our privacy in this difficult time 10 years later!#it won't happen because it can't and won't matter to the base #people will STILL scream they're married etc

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normcore-tertiary-character · 15 days

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Suddenly noticed people have been counting and gif setting the Buddie hugs in canon and immediately jumped to comparing it to Xena and how we have gif sets of their kisses. These women kiss! On the mouth! Xena grabs Gabby's ass during one! Another is her giving Gabby True Love's Kiss to wake her from a sleeping spell!

And Xena/Gabrielle is somehow "not canon"

#like I *know* it's not canon because the show continues to wink at the audience about them as if they're not canon #the show TELLS YOU its unclear if theyre girlfriends/wives/partners #but they ARE soulmates who bathe together CONSTANTLY and kiss enough for it to be on camera multiple times #in an alternate timeline Gabrielle and Xena meet and when Xena dies Gabrielle decides she'd rather end the universe than live without her #they GET MARRIED. LITERAL HOLY MATRIMONY. HONEY MOONS. MULTIPLE!!!! THEY FUCK! But Xena is reincarnated as a man so no homo #I am going to purchase and consume a gaylord of pure shipping peanuts to cope with this. What the FUCK #(Buddie is relevant because I consider it functionally canon. like not yet but inevitablely. and theyve just HUGGED)#i need to go eat my shipping container of packing peanuts #roz says a thing

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the-judicial-assistants-notebook · 1 year

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Okay. Let's talk about Kay in The Forgotten Turnabout.

I've mentioned in a post before how I think Kay doesn't have a purpose in AAI2 (as in, AAI was all about the Yatagarasu which is her story, but AAI2 generally has nothing to do with her, and you can see this change just by looking at how she's positioned in the promotional material for the two games:

[left AAI; right AAI2.] In the left poster, while she's at Edgeworth's back, it's clear that they're both the main focus. In the right, though, she's on par with Gumshoe).

And I think the result of her slight lack of direction in the game culminates in what happens to her and her character in Forgotten.

From the beginning of AAI2, you can kind of tell that Kay was written to a bit different from how she was in AAI. She's still fairly consistent with how she was there, but the game kind of bounces between her original characterisation and her newer one, where she's slightly denser (see her calling the laser pointer a mole in Target, when she should definitely have known what it was; and them explaining to her what a prison is in Imprisoned like she wouldn't know??) and less concerned with maintaining formality around Edgeworth, although they haven't interacted since the end of AAI (see her partner opening line changing from "Yes?" to "Yeah, what's up?"). She also seems more eager for his approval (there are a few times when she questions/asserts her effectiveness as an assistant when I don't remember her ever doing that in AAI), and, overall just a little more like Maya.

In Imprisoned, when she freaks out, Kay hits Ray, which is notable because we've only seen her resort to violence before on purpose and as a child (whereas Mia/Maya have both hit people out of emotion). I'm not going to go through the whole game, but I bring it up because there's an argument to be made that they're trying to replicate the Phoenix-Maya dynamic and push the Dadworth interpretation in AAI2 -- probably because they realised it'd be popular with the fans -- and this comes to the forefront in Forgotten.

First, just a note about AA's amnesia cases. The thing about these cases is that they're usually done to explore some formerly unseen aspect of a character (as is with Phoenix and the one in DGS), BUT they're always true to the nature of the character (as is most clearly observed with Thalassa). This is... not so in Forgotten.

The parts about Kay that appear to remain in Forgotten are her politeness and sense of honour, both of which get dialed up to 11 and both of which we already know she possess. Everything else about her personality, though, is altered and has always reminded me of Iris (if you made a parody of Iris's soft and seemingly delicate nature). That's mostly because (1) they have similar sprites

and (2) because they're rehashing Edgeworth's mini arc in T&T (which I don't mind because T&T did leave room for that concept to be explored further) where he acts as the defence for, you guessed it, Iris. Looking at it more closely, though, I can definitely see bits of Maya mixed in, too.

The most obvious parallel to Maya, and by extension Phoenix, here is that you act as a... not-prosecutor who defends their assistant from murder charges that even they think they might be guilty of (Reunion, and Turnabout, anyone?). Just like Reunion Maya, Forgotten Kay has poor self-esteem (albeit to a greater, comedic degree), thinks of herself as weak and useless, and becomes reliant on Edgeworth for both her emotional and situational needs (this is not a dig at Maya; she was in jail after having her first big channeling session result in death. Her reaction was natural).

Another less serious but obvious alteration made to make Kay seem more like Maya here is her relationship with food -- which I know sounds ridiculous but!! It's really what tipped me off to her Maya-fication to begin with!!!

You see, in Forgotten, there's a point where Kay talks about hamburgers:

Kay: Umm... OK. I remember a faint scent... It was a wonderful smell coming from the counter of a food stall... I followed the fragrance, only to find a perfectly sculpted burger, resting on two golden buns... The tender and juicy patty made my taste buds sing with joy... Yes, I can remember what I thought at that moment! ...I want seconds!

The thing about this that stands out to me is that you never get a line about food like this from Kay in AAI; and I know this, because not only is the only time Kay ever brings up food in AAI with regards to Swiss rolls (which are notably her favourite treats), you have the option of presenting food to her, which gives you this dialogue:

Kay: It's a box of Samurai Dogs, right? Ah, but see, I'm a Jammin' Ninja fan! So, while I would love to have one... I'm going to be strong and resist the urge!

She would have one but she'll refrain. It blatantly goes against how she acts in Forgotten, and it's so obvious that they only did that to make her more like Maya!!! They even use burgers!!!!

So why am I even getting all uppity about this? There's nothing wrong with being like Maya is there? She's a great character. And, yeah, she is, but the point of Kay is that she's meant to be a foil to Maya... and Edgeworth.

Both Maya and Edgeworth lost their parents at a very young age. So did Kay. But, unlike Maya and Edgeworth, Kay was specifically written to have had the emotional support and strength she needed to move on from her father's death. Her character was created in a way that shows how you can still love and respect a dead family member (and choose to continue their legacy) without being held back by grief and trauma the way Edgeworth largely is. By making amnesiac Kay behave in a way that is so self-deprecating and reliant on other people for her emotional needs, you are implying that this has been who she is deep inside all along and diluting that message of being able to move forwards while still holding onto your love for the people you've lost. It undermines the resilience that has been a part of Kay's core as a character from her conception, and basically flattens everything that makes her... Kay.

Now, this is obviously not great, but what really gets to me about this is that they didn't need to do this for the case to still work. They could have given Kay a milder form of amnesia, where she has a gap in her memory regarding why she was up on that roof and what happened, and the story would have largely functioned the same way. The only reason I can think of for why they do a complete 180 on her personality is because they wanted to use her to develop Edgeworth's character.

Because think about it: we've seen Kay put in a position where she's been accused of murder before, and that didn't affect our or Edgeworth's desire to save her. That drama and the feelings invoked by placing Kay at such risk would still exist; the only thing that would change is Kay's reaction to it. We know from Ablaze that she wouldn't just fold and rely on Edgeworth's help; she would fight back. Her behaviour in Forgotten just doesn't quite align with her usual character (aside from being extremely honourable and polite), which makes me wonder why they did it. And the only answer I can find is that it gives Edgeworth someone to 'save' in the greatest sense of that word (because, remember, she's also extremely emotionally vulnerable and dependent on him here) and furthers his development as a character.

You remember at the beginning when I said Kay didn't have a purpose in this game? I think the developers felt that, too, and they decided that her purpose would be to make Edgeworth a better person and strengthen his arc by giving him someone to protect, without really considering what this would do to her character. This case was never about Kay; it was always about Edgeworth. And, honestly, that should have been obvious from the very moment you realise that Kay is being granted an amnesia plotline, because that whole thing about amnesia in AA being used to reveal parts of a character previously unseen? Yeah, that was never going to work with Kay. Because Kay doesn't wear a mask. She is who she is... until she isn't.

Honestly, I've said pretty much everything I wanted to say about Forgotten and Kay, so thank you if you've read this far. I really appreciate it 💝💖💕 The rest of this is me basically talking about how this change affects my feelings on the game and this interpretation of the Kay-Edgeworth dynamic, so you can stop reading now if that doesn't interest you and still get the basic point of this post.

I suppose I'll start by reiterating that I do like AAI2 despite what it may seem. The characters it introduces are some of my favourites in the franchise, and, in fact, the actual plot of Forgotten with the PIC is my favourite part of the entire game. I thought it was brilliant, but I just needed to get this out because... I don't know, it was bothering me for some reason hskdhdj Like, AA has some amazing female characters, but I know better than to go into it expecting some kind of boundary-pushing piece of new feminist media, believe me; it doesn't surprise me that they used Kay to push Edgeworth's character forwards. It is his game, after all. But I guess it's just a little frustrating to see after they genuinely achieved something great with her characterisation in AAI only to... there's no less inflammatory way to put it, infantilise her? a little? for the sake of developing a male character?

(Especially when I don't think Edgeworth even needed it?? Like, I'm pretty sure he would have been just as adamant about saving her if she had been her normal self so mmm???? It was likely just done to make him seem liked he'd be a good father and up his popularity a bit more, honestly. As if he needed it).

Again, I have no issues with anyone who enjoys the father-daughter (or brother-sister) dynamics pushed by this case; it's literally in the text, I can't say you're wrong for it and like. My opinion shouldn't matter to you anyway! It's fandom, do what makes you happy. But I personally can't get past what is actually being suggested when the game, or fanworks, echo the traits grafted onto Kay in this case within them. Like what it means when she's essentially made to take a few steps back so she's less as at peace with her father's death than she was when we first met her, or less independent and self-assured than she usually is -- especially when this is done only for an older male character (most likely Edgeworth but it could be anyone) to come in and either see themselves in her, thus coming to a conclusion that helps them better themselves in some way, or take on a "fatherly" position that lets them comfort her back to a level of confidence she would usually be at anyway, while simultaneously coming across as being such a good person (which is usually the focus/point of these kinds of things).

And, like, if you don't see a problem with Kay's characterisation in this version of their relationship, that's perfectly fine! If you think I'm reaching and do enjoy the Dadworth dynamic for what it is, then please don't let me rain on your parade. My main thing is that I want better for Kay, and this case just didn't satisfy my need for that.

Anyway, yeah! That's pretty much it. Thank you so much for everyone who read all of this, and I hope you got some amusement out of it if nothing else. Feel free to tell me your thoughts, too!

#ace attorney #kay faraday #ace attoney investigations 2 #aai2 #i didnt put many concrete details about the case here so i think people who havent played it yet wont get spoiled? but ofc i encourage #everyone to play it and form your own opinions. this is just in case youre wondering what my new EMBARRASSINGLY long post is about and want #to read it blind hskdhdks #i didnt put this in the post but another thing that's funny about this case is how they minimise its effect by pushing the nick-maya #similarities right from the start of the game. like you'd expect this case to have drastic long lasting implications on their relationship #but because they're already shown to be closer at the start and because marrying amnesia kay's character to normal kay's is so mindboggling #(they are honestly just two completely different characters) it doesnt really change anything between her and edgeworth?? it's quite funny #because she literally just says 'thanks! :D👍' and then they never bring it up again. it's so. it feels like they tried to have their cake #and eat it too and they somehow blew up the oven

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happyk44 · 9 months

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Macaria: Dad, why is that lady so big?

Hades: Oh, she's pregnant. She's got a little baby in her womb. She's so big because she's likely close to giving birth soon.

Macaria: But I thought babies were out of dessicated souls, the dirt of the underworld, and a little bit of river water.

Hades: No, Mac, that's just how you were born. And that was technically an accident because I had no idea that was even going to happen.

Hades: But most babies, especially mortal babies, are made inside their mothers. First a couple will have sex, then the baby will come to grow inside their mother for a few months. Then their mothers give birth, and when they take their first breath, their soul blooms. It's a tiny feathery thing at first, but it will grow strong and big as time goes on and they experience more and more of the world.

Macaria: So the mothers make the life inside of them?

Hades: Essentially, yeah, but the baby isn't truly alive until the soul forms, which only comes at first breath. Sometimes second breath, if the first one had some issues. A couple times it was the third breath.

Macaria:

Macaria: That's disgusting, I don't want to do that.

Hades: What?

Macaria: I do not want to make a living thing inside my body. If I have a baby, someone else is going to do that for me, or I'm going to go fish desiccated souls out of the river and put them on a mound of dirt and make one that way, just like you did, but on purpose.

Hades: That's very fair, Mac. I don't have understand the appeal either. I mean, I know it's their only avenue to creating children, but why do they always look so pleased about it? It's weird. Making a life is weird.

Macaria: Yeah, but you still have to do it.

Hades: I don't have a womb, Mac.

Macaria: You can make one! Or find someone with one and get them pregnant.

Hades: You just said-

Macaria: I meant for me, not for you! I want siblings, and if it's this easy to make a baby, I don't know why you haven't given them to me yet!

#macaria #hades #happy talks greek mythos #someone's like hey mac have you ever considered having a kid? and she just starts gagging #if she's gonna have a kid they're coming by stork or plucked out of the ground like a flower #also hades being like but i dont want to get someone pregnant because i will then have participated in the act of creating life #and that as we both know is a disgusting thing and mac is just throwing a book of pickup lines at him #mac is very much i get that dad but you are my only parent i do not have any orher person i can go to and say give me a little sister #so start reading and get out there! and then she aggressively wingmans him for centuries until he gets married to Persephone #because then Persephone aggressively wingmans to satisfy her vouyerism kink 😂#ah fuck when i get blasted straight to hell for my blasphemy promise you'll miss me 😂

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atinyladybug-art · 10 months

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Some Abirt doodles of her daily life ft his partner Simon and one of his kids, Atticus. :>

More Abirt & co. fun facts because I'm having brainrot:

She dyed his hair red. I haven't got a reason why he's got yellow-green tips but it's either a cross between Old Dye Job Fading Out or magic by 963. She's also got grey hairs because she's an old man. :>

OH! Speaking of 963! My version of 963 is made of Amber. I think it's fitting since Abirt is a historian and also old and one of a kind. And Amber is exclusive to Earth, very ancient and preserves historical things. :D

Likes cooking but cannot be trusted with baking. (Leave baking to Simon!). Scared of making latkas though

Very morning bird. Awake by 6am and sleeps at 10. (Simon is the night owl, however, and sleeps at 3am)

They were in-laws with O5-1 | The Founder | Aaron Siegel at one point. Legally they still technically are in-laws?? Maybe??

Uses a quill! Thinks they're fancy and pretty but also because she's old fashioned.

Many, many canes all in different colours and types. Matches his outfits. Also likes to add stickers to them.

He's also ambidextrous! Learned to use both xer hands out of boredom and thought it would make her look cooler.

Simon is deaf and blind on the side with scars. It's what caused him to switch career paths from field agent to psychologist years ago (haven't made up lore yet).

Atticus is a little shit that likes to fuck around and find out and Abirt has to stop him from fucking around and finding out all the time.

#Alt draws #dr bright #simon glass #scp #scp foundation #jack bright #abirt kravitz #atticus kravitz #bright remake process #i have been going back and forth between saving and editing because i keep finding little bits of mistakes here and there #like a sneaky arm in sleeve was not coloured #i deadass forgot all their jewelry and magen davids #also I'm not sure if Simon and Abirt are married #at the moment they don't have actual wedding rings but they do have matching jewelry and rings #they aren't exactly boyfriends but they aren't exactly husbands either so they've just been calling each other partners and SO.#they're somewhere in between. definitely romantic and love each other a lot but boyfriends feel a bit too inaccurate for them #and abirt doesnt want to get married again because of personal issues #they're queer is what im saying

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ssilentcharlie · 1 year

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okay i want to make something clear before tonight: i am not expecting Buddie canon tonight.

what i am expecting is them with their son, and that being the start of them navigating their relationship into whatever it may be.

#and by buddie canon i mean them being in a relationship. boyfriends if you will #some big love confession wouldn't fit #but an oh moment would #even if it's just a little thing #i just need the couch theory ending to be special #i need it to be special for them #also i have seen so many people say they'll give up on buddie if they aren't canon tonight...#how do you think relationships work?#they take time and effort #and this is procedural so you will see that time and effort #they're not going to get married tomorrow just because you want them to #these fuckers are traumatised TOGETHER and they need to work through that #buddie #911 fox #911 #eddie diaz #evan buckley

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randomnameless · 10 months

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I’m surprised at the amount of billy asks you get. Does it mean that they’re popular? All i know for sure is that they certainly seem to interest a lot of people. And i agree that they really do have the bones for a fascinating character, but the developers couldn’t be bothered to build something from those bones because 1) sim shenanigans, you can’t have your self insert react strongly if you’re meant to project 100% onto them, but billy does have traits that keep getting mentioned by more than one person plus the few actions they do choose and a backstory, which doesn’t seem like cardboard to me imho, but also 2) earl gray, and what invader added is the most damning detail of them all. Or rather, not a detail, but the anchor that sank billy. I know we’re meant to keep flamey and edelgard separate in our minds because edelgard is marketed as a poor sad waifu you must feel compelled to rescue, but it doesn’t erase her actions or flamey. When we have evidence saying that silver snow is meant to be the primary marketed canon route and so much of the conflicts across two games come down to the actions of one person plus a poorly thought out loptous stand in, all it tells me is that the main character was doomed to fail because the developers could not decide how to write a school mystery + romance of the three kingdoms sympathetic to cao cao so they tried to “fix” that or make it “gray” by turning it into a dating sim to artificially raise the emotional stakes. At least to me it says they didn’t have confidence in billy as a main character at all because so much of it hinges on centering edelgard and the players picking faves out of the rest of the cast, and to make it more insulting the compensation is being able to kill billy in the spin off? I myself don’t really have any big faves in the games because i only play them casually and read your blog, but what i do know is that it makes me hate edelgard for essentially being the gravitational center of the games like a narrative black hole and the developers being too cowardly to really cement her as a villain, and it doesn’t make me like warriors either because it doubles down on trying to explain her position instead of telling a story and because shez fans are extremely annoying and rude online, no surprise that many are also edelgard fans.

I'd say it's a cumulation of everything!

I think the fandom (myself included!) might have been a bit harsh on Billy because of their avatar status, even if I still think Rhea's S-support "aloneb4u" is shit and Seteth not giving any fucks about her and centering his support and convos on "we must find her so she will reveal da truth 2 u" is bonkers and both of those instances can't be only attributed to Hresvelg Grey but to "only the player is important", like the theory i came up with the self-insert scissors.

But yeah, I feel like at one point, Supreme Leader hijacked the "main character" or "character at the center of the plot we want to tell" spot, all gravitas went to "can u kill the student who loves u and bear with the sad uwus for the rest of your run ??" instead of, you know, the greater plot Nopes teased us with a Larva vs Sothis that never happened?

I compared FE16's story to many things earlier on, but the general thing is "why are we talking and following the least interesting parts of Fodlan", Supreme Leader's war of unification is meh, bias or no bias, I would have loved to see a War of Heroes game, or even a game set during the Sothis vs Agartha era (or the two why not) - but here we just have Ashnard lite with an uwu glazing, without even tackling a traditional or underlaying issue from the FE series about coexistence between people and acceptance and whatnot.

(the reason why AM is still, imo, a letdown because it ignores the dragon in the room)

What was Billy supposed to be? Supreme Leader's luf interest? A character that can conceptually fall (if they pick Tru Piss) thus can ascend in other routes? A self insert? The character you're supposed to navigate the world with?

I think Billy being a silent protag was a disservice to them - despite all of its faults, Nopes at least gives more light to Billy and it's refreshing, even if the game will never add 1+1 because Hresvelg Grey.

TBH I think Fodlan has its own share of fans being annoying regardless of the character they support - and while Barney is pretty chatty, ultimately Barney is the deviant art OC with two swords because why not, a sekrit past that is never explained and somehow stronger than everyone who is actually as empty as an oyster shell. We don't know what Barney wants, to be a merc? Yeah, but why? Is it because Barney is searching for somewhere to belong - just like Billy in a way - ?

As for the cardboard mention, it's most likely again in relation to Hresvelg Grey and Fe Fodlan's writing - the games don't spend enough time to build a sense of friendship and camaraderie between the cast to make the "betrayal" hurt or even the "y must we kill people we knew :'( " meaningful, so we only have the "wah sensei why didn't you pick me :(" or the general "i'm sad to fight against you" but like, mate, who are you? Why are you lamenting having to fight against Billy - someone who is opposing/invading your country and everything you stand for - like Billy and 12 months in Rhea's rocky mansion meant so much to you, much more than the 17 years of life (with acquaintances, friends, family, etc) you had?

But it's also in relation to Hresvelg Grey and the silent protag - why no one can give a reason - save for Supreme Leader "lizards BaD + MAGA" - to join this route, heck, not even Billy can say why they joined this route...

In French we have a saying that goes "comparaison n'est pas raison" more or less meaning you can't always compare things bcs context and all, but after TS's protag Serenor - who also has Gary Stu moments! - Billy not saying a thing about Supreme Leader's nonsense, frowning at Dimitri and being silent during Claude's monologues is... annoying.

But when Billy isn't in Fodlan games, they can talk and there's still the forbidden rule of not adding numbers - never ! - but they shine more.

#anon #replies #Billy stuff #TS's Serenor was annoying at times like the Fred ending was uhhh a thing #self-insert scissors are sadly what IS seems to come up with recently #I don't think Elibe Echoes will cut off Pent from Louise's life so she will be able to marry the self insert #maybe it's just a shipping thing you'd say #but for Seteth not to mention Flayn at all in his supports nor his sister who is being zumba'd in Enbarr like their siblings #it's just wtf #is this why Cat and Cyril and to a lesser extent Dedue weren't loved by the fandom? because they have someone else that is more important #to them than Billy?#or maybe it's bcs Rhea BaD and Dimitri BaD #FE16 #3 Nopes #sort of #I game about Billy being like Alear #discovering who they are and chosing what they want to do would have been much more interesting #than i wanted to walk with u :(#imagine a billy who decides to stand by humanity even if they're dumb because they luf them #or a billy who thinks they're better off dead because they will never accept anyone being different and #a billy who stands by humanity but refuses to accept they'll forever be dumb thus accepts to guide them #something weird like that #with zanado fruits and more focus on Sothis and Nemesis's party

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