some angsty ravi content for us all (mild spoilers for the context of as good as dead, but not serious spoilers)
do you ever think about how terrified ravi must have been during agad? like, someone is stalking his girlfriend, and it seems like they're probably going to murder her.
the idea is traumatising enough, but what about the fact that one of the people that ravi was closest to in life has already been murdered? and here's the thing. no-one could have seen sal's death coming. his friends knew he was with them during the time that andie went missing. his dad knew when sal came home.
but pip? there's definitely something going on, and ravi doesn't know how to stop it, and i know he was having the worst time ever :(
(i don't say any of this to diminish how pip was feeling during agad, because obviously she was really going through it, i just have a lot of thoughts about ravi, and how terrified he would have been to lose pip, a person that came into his life because he had lost sal)
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Ooh, what’s your beef with izombie? I recently got into the show before it turned kinda mediocre so I’d love to hear another opinion on it!
Tl;dr - flanderization
So I started watching iZombie the day it premiered because I am nothing if not a Bradley James simp but also because the concept sounded fun. And initially it was! Liv fuckin ruled as a protag and the rest of the cast were also equally as weird and loveable (Peyton Charles my BELOVED). But the biggest thing here is that the mechanism of the show is that Liv had to solve a crime > Liv ate some of the brain of the victim > Liv took on personality quirks from said brain > Liv used those to solve the crime. The key here is quirks.
Now, this all went well for S1 where we got to see Rose McIver play all sorts of different Livs like a paintball instructor or a frat boy at a Halloween party, but the main thing here is that Liv still retained her own personality while hopped up on Brain Juice. She just became Liv-who-was-better-at-parkour or Liv-but-now-with-added-agoraphobia.
Fast forward to S3, which is around where I stopped watching. Now every time Liv ate a brain, she fully embodied the personality of the brain. She stopped being Liv plus a little extra and became soccer mom!Liv or newsanchor!Liv. She stopped having interests or passions as a result and became fully about trying to solve the next case and so she also stopped being interesting.
That and I simply Did Not Care for the anti-zombie military The Walking Dead-esque plotline that they leaned real hard into. It was so much better when it was a zombie crime procedural and not a show where anti-zombie extremists force the main characters to relocate to a literal zombie island??? Is that really how the series ends????
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PLEASE tell us more about virina mishra im such a sucker for nextgens
OOPS FUCK I GOT DISTRACTED AGAIN AND FORGOR TO ANSWER THIS
virina!!! my beloved virina!!!! littlest froggy!!!
aaravi and miranda very much both wanted to actually, you know, have a family. its one of those things where you come from someplace so shitty and so terrible, that you just cannot imagine someone else going through that same thing, and you cannot bear the thought of making someone else go through the same thing. to be fair, they are both TERRIFIED of just repeating the past and ending up in the exact same loop that their parents did, terrified of just heaving back on the same generational trauma and wreck of a childhood, but there comes a point in being afraid of something where you just need to get rid of this fear. its too constant, its too forever, its too eternal. sitting through it and avoiding it isn't making it go away, and they already fucked up avoiding it by finding each other and loving each other, so dancing around the issue isn't helping. instead, what they mutually land on is just... a want to prove that fear wrong. a want to prove that fear wrong, to prove that they aren't doomed to be just a weapon and just a source of death in all its forms, that they can hold something in their hands and make it grow. best way to avoid repeating the past is to take responsibility by the leash, after all. they want to go back in time, to give themselves the childhood that they always missed, and the best way they figured to do that is to give that to someone else.
this is something that very much existed since their relationship started to get serious with each other, and something that's been in the background the entire time since, so its not like its a mystery or anything. if anything, they've been using this want as a motivation, as a need to keep going even at the worst of times. they will have this happy future. they will make it through this together. they will make it work. no more ifs, no more buts, no more doubt. stop living in the doubt and start acting as though their happy end is a foregone conclusion and something that they are going to have no matter what, give no room for fear or guilt or shame or depression or self hatred to sneak in. they will be happy. they will make someone else happy. they will be someplace safe, not just for themselves, but for their loved ones too. they will be good. they will be.
even after everything blows over (mainly from miranda's family, she is still crown princess and stepping away from that was never going to be an option they gave her), it still takes a few years for them to broach the topic of having a kid for-real. just to make sure everything's settled. just to make sure everything's safe.
they have virina later in life than some of their other friends or just in general, but they were planned and wanted for so long that the wait is worth it. the name, as i've mentioned, comes from aaravi. she knows her mom was a... complicated woman, she knows her own raising wasn't perfect and that there were things that she still cant fully forgive her mother for, but she had a hard life too. she too deserved better. despite it all, aaravi still loves her mom, despite despite despite. and so she does the best thing that she can to honor her mom, to honor her memory, to give her the life that she never had the same as aaravi herself, and gives it to virina. the mishra last name was a no-brainer already, miranda already look aaravi's last name and preferred being a mishra over a vanderbilt anyday.
years later, virina also earns the nickname of "froggy" - primarily because of their own love for the animal, constantly finding them and bringing them in from outside. likewise, miranda and aaravi decide to raise them genderless, and to let them decide for themselves how they want to be referred to when they're older.
virina doesn't really take much after either of their moms, though. mostly they're quiet, shy, keep to themselves. where both of their moms are brash and dominant, very confident in themselves and willing to bowl over quieter personalities, virina seldom speaks, and when they do, its soft-spoken. they get easily spooked and cry easily, especially when it comes to other people. they cling to their moms legs, hide behind them when other people come around, prefer the company of animals over other people, tend not to like new things or new people and greatly prefer sticking to their simple, easy routine. they just can't figure out other people, seemingly, not understanding them or how to make friends or even what's appropriate or not to say in a conversation.
this isn't to say they aren't deeply intelligent and curious. they quickly learn to love venturing outside with their moms, playing in the garden or chasing bugs and frogs. they come in with sticks and rocks, make mud potions, try to build things out of sticks and befriend birds. they prefer books over people, ending up much more of a bookworm than either of their moms ever were, and ends up a very big nerd as they get older. theyre close and affectionate with the friends they do make, but this is a small handful of their very most trusted, and they never get much better at figuring out social norms.
in time, they lean a little bit more towards the femme side of things, growing their hair out long and liking long, swishy skirts that they can spin and sway over and over, that doesnt cling too tight to their legs. they end up needing glasses, and end up picking a pair thats large and circular, making their eyes seem all the more owlish. they settle on they/she, but never have particularly strong opinions about gender regardless. they can be blunt and quick to frustration, especially if they feel people arent understanding them, and are forever going to be deeply embarrassed over how their moms dote on them. i very much see them getting intensely interested and starting to study either linguistics, literature, history, geology, or any biology that takes them closer to the marshes and wetlands that they love.
they never think very much about how one of their moms used to be a princess, heir to a kingdom. beyond an instance as a kid that ended with them dropping a training sword repeatedly and crying, they never get very interested in following the slayer line of work. they fuss over small stakes, have their moms grate on them sometimes in both of their old ways, and they live a normal life.
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I started reading a good girl's guide to murder and obviously loved it because I really really love everything with crime and stuff and I liked Pip so much and I thought, this is nice and everything and will not destroy me, and then I read the second book and was like, yeah, it got a little out of hand, and then as good as dead and I was like, that escalated quickly.
I mean, she's traumatised and unapologetic and curses and then gets kidnapped by a serial killer and then kills said serial killer and calls her friends and ravi to help her and she was so calm and everything and I just love their dynamic so much.
and then the end-
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