well. they're not niche but Roberto and Sam are my most beloved. I do love taki (wiz kid) too. this is river karmirage btw I wish I could send asks from sideblogs but alas 😔 also my most niche favorite guy (gender neutral) is ryoko sabuki/radiance, who has a terrible costume and like. 8 total appearances. but I think she's so neat and she could be so interesting
Was listening to the OG Equestria Girls Movie soundtrack and had to take a moment to stop what I was doing when it was at the part when Twilight had that smirk on her face at Curly Winds saving Wiz Kid from falling. They’re my favorite G4 shipppp
Thunderbird is discussing with Captain Betsy when they feel the floating island is starting to shake. Although Gideon the External had been defeated by Wiz Kid and Trinary in the Cyberspace, the mutants on X-Corp Island face another problem. The floating island is now plummeting to its doom! The island is falling because both Gideon's cyberattack and the tech kids' counterattacks did their damage on the computer system in the cyberspace and its thrusters on the island. While everyone are scrambling to take control of the falling island, Thunderbird grumbles about their predicament. Captain Betsy gives a telepathic call to Rictor so that he could make a landmass to break the fall for the falling island. Rictor manages to create a landmass out of the ocean floor so the island lands safe and sound. Even though everyone are safe; Wiz Kid and Trinary blame themselves for putting everyone in danger.
I recently made a comic featuring my favorite Equestria Girls background characters: Velvet Sky, Care Root/Wiz Kid, and Curly Winds! I adore these three!
cable and wiz kid's friendship actually makes me physically vibrate when I think about it.
like. two months ago nathan was younger than taki, pretending he was just as much of a badass as the version of cable everyone was familiar with, and taki just sees right fucking through him. he calls him something like "unearned confidence covering up a bundle of nerves stretched over a barrel of imposter syndrome." and nathan thinks taki's brilliant. he trusts taki -- hell, he probably looks up to him a little bit, because taki isn't even eighteen and he's in charge of a whole space station.
and then the old cable comes back, but he still has this faith in taki. because when he met him, he was younger. when you're that age, people older than you seem so together, so trustworthy. but he doesn't trust taki all the way, so he presses him, and taki responds by shorting out the t.o. virus in his system.
(okay, taki also wakes him back up.)
and then they go on and fight judgement together. they start digging into abigail brand's secrets together. and cable tells taki to stay on the ship to keep him safe. he gives taki command of s.w.o.r.d.
it's these kinds of things that make me love comics actually? like. here's a grumpy old (sorry cable) man with a backstory full of war and crazy shit and an adopted daughter he had to raise in said war/crazy shit. and here's a paralyzed seventeen-year-old tech wiz with blue hair, a chip on his shoulder the size of the iceberg that sunk the titanic, whose superpower is technology and also snark. and they treat each other like equals and they're friends and cable looks out for taki like you would a particularly shenanigan-prone younger sibling and taki actually lets him do that and. yeah.