#and also between sam and freddie's moms being horrifically abusive and carly and spencer's dad abandoning them to live on a naval submarine

[hieronymus-botch]

Was recently reminded of how sitcoms about benevolent aliens living on earth were really popular for a while in the 20th century, and the comedic bits with Ax in Animorphs are really stylistically similar to those and this was probably both intentional and a lot more obvious to audiences in the 90s when the books came out, which makes it a lot funnier in context, because the modern equivalent would be a super dark, gritty sci-fi/fantasy series that occasionally becomes tonally and stylistically identical to iCarly, and then I realized that there already exists a super dark, gritty sci-fi fantasy IP that’s mainly set in Seattle and features the Internet heavily, and that it exists in the form of a series of video games which I own with an entire feature for making and sharing custom campaigns, and now I am divinely obligated to create a mod for the Harebrained Schemes Shadowrun games about fantasy cyberpunk versions of the cast of iCarly leading secret double lives as the most popular teen stars on the Matrix and the most dangerous shadowrunners in Seattle.

#animorphs #iCarly #shadowrun #like for a teen sitcom the cast of iCarly fit *really easily* into Shadowrun player character archetypes #you've got the guy who's really good with computers #the girl who really likes beating the shit out of people #the guy who sets things on fire effectively by magic #and the one person in the group with any social skills #and also between sam and freddie's moms being horrifically abusive and carly and spencer's dad abandoning them to live on a naval submarine #and forcing spencer to take on a parental role he didn't sign up for for his younger sister #they also have equally tragic backstories to most player characters