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mercy-mercie-mercymorn · 10 months

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hi! i posted this reddit comment a bit ago, as i thought it was a good reading of sojourn's character, and i'm currently on a long amtrak ride so i've been finishing up temi oh's excellent book featuring sojourn. i have thoughts.

let's talk about sojourn, aka vivian chase!

her cybernetic enhancements were initially the result of an autoimmune disease. even mina liao was surprised by how many procedures she'd undergone by the time she's in the CAF, though. (mina is in this book. we'll get there)

she has a twin sister, valentine, and a niece named bonnie!

she absolutely takes on a lot of perfectionist qualities when it comes to the battlefield.

her favorite architecture style is gothic revival (as a historic preservation girlie, i am qualified to call this based)

a bit of speculation, but it seems like she's very good at shah mat, a variation of chess. she played it frequently with her grandfather.

she's not best friends with mina, but the book makes it clear that they work well together within the canadian front of the omnic crisis.

her arms being protheses are the reason why she uses the railgun---no other soldier can handle its recoil.

she jumps four stories off a heron (a flying anti-omnic weapon of sorts) with relatively few ill effects. (i just think that's cool)

viv says fuck the ship of theseus and she's so fuckin real for that.

anyways!

i really enjoyed the book. it gave me a whole new perspective on sojourn. i know the game and the ephemera authored by other people are two different things, but i've integrated crazier things into my worldview. i think the book cements how much she cares about the people she works with and the work she does. looking forward to seeing this theme rear its head in the future!

someone remind me to scream about mina too later because this portrayal of mina was *chef's kiss* temi oh ily and i am deeply interested in reading sci-fi from the perspective of a neuroscience gal!

#overwatch #sojourn overwatch #overwatch sojourn #vivian chase #posts that are just agro being a big ol nerd on main

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spxllcxstxr · 3 years

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💥 unpopular opinion I actually like Lavender...

I know I’m late but congrats on 400 you deserve it 🤍🤍 - twilight anon

Twilight anon!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰 thank you so much! ily!!

I mean obviously book Lavender is better because we actually got to hear about her outside of HBP and her obsession with Ron. She’s definitely not a bad character, I guess I’m a little more neutral through.

I’m using a read more because my opinion got a bit long

Ok my unpopular opinion is I guess sorta similar: Percy Weasley is not the worst Weasley, and I actually like him. GASP I know. Now, there are people better qualified that are able to dissect his character, so this is a little crude mesh of thoughts at 9am

I used to hate him because how could he fuck up to the point he doesn’t know his boss is gone/manipulated and how can he get angry at his parents for joining the order and believing Harry? And then I turned 18. Percy was 18 in Goblet of Fire. And I’m 18 and can barely fend for myself and Percy was out here with a job high up and expected to be a grown up. Now, you can argue that that’s what he wanted—to be treated like an adult, but at some point, you need to understand that that’s what every teen wants. We’re not children. But what about the other adults in the Ministry that didn’t say anything? Why are we only blaming Percy?

Ok, now let’s discuss him leaving. Percy is somehow both the middle child and part of the oldest. However, there’s a disconnect between Bill/Charlie and Percy. Bill is too old and Charlie and Percy have a bit of an age gap. Sure, they were close, but Charlie and Bill were closer. Then we have Ginny/Ron, so close in age that of course they band together. There’s what, a 4 year difference between Percy and Ron? As someone with a similar age gap with my brother, they’re not going to be that close. Now, the twins. Before I get into this, know that I do like the twins. I’m not like a twin Stan or whatever, but I do like their character. They are the closest in age to Percy, though still, they’re his younger brothers. And they’re dicks. Which is fine. Until we see countless times that they tend to take it too far. And going too far is fine if there are consequences or some sort of understanding. But there isn’t when if comes to Percy. We do see many times in the books where the twins will rag on Percy, Percy tells them to stop, and nothing really happens except for more teasing. And Percy never really doesn’t anything back to them. Percy simply wants to study, read books, and love his life. And they tear him a new one. So he starts feeling betrayed by the rest of his family that watch this happen and never help him.

A smaller note on him being a sort of black sheep of the family he’s “nothing special” for lack of a better thought. Bill is this curse breaker that travels the world and fights creatures, Charlie deals with dragons, the twins are some of the best tricksters Hogwarts has ever seen, Ron is friends with Harry Potter, and Ginny is the only girl in like years I think. I’m not saying that the others don’t have this struggle. I think they all have to fight against expectations and breaking away from a terrible mindset. But what’s the only thing we learn about Percy? That he’s stuffy because he like studying. Usually it’s the opposite, right? Percy doesn’t seem to think he has anything to offer so, he does what he knows best, studies to move up in life. I mean c’mon, this kid is smart! He got a ministry job at 18!

Ok so finally, let’s get to OoTP and talk about what he said to his parents. I’m not saying that he was right and he’s justified for yelling at his parents and all that—because he’s not. It was terrible. But let’s go through it. First, what he said. According to his younger siblings. This, I believe, is really the first time we hear about Percy completely losing his cool. He was always prim, proper, and professional, mature for his age, and then we hear about his outburst. Obviously he just got the point where all of this was too much and was boiling over. Which I think we can all understand. So he loses it. Now I don’t remember everything he said. I think he blames a lot of stuff in his parents, which is cruel. It’s something that should come up later after a few therapy sessions but we have to remember that these are bottled up emotions from someone who never feels listened to. Let’s get to the part we all remember, when he blames his father for the family being poor. Oof. Again, that’s more of a therapy thing. However, I can relate. I mean my family is poor, and when I younger it used to be worse. We were literally extremely close to losing our house and we went some days not knowing how to pay bills, and we get a lot of financial help from my grandparents...and y’know, I’ll admit. I used to get angry because well why can’t my mom just get a better job and make more money so we didn’t have to worry about these things? It’s a hard thing to wrap your head around. Sure, Percy is older at this time and sees firsthand what the ministry is like, but he doesn’t understand why his father, seeing how money gets so tight, can stand working the same job. It’s a terrible thing to say to someone, but it’s completely understandable why he’d be upset. In his mind, I think he’s really trying to help. I think he’s really trying to get him to understand that if he just went into a new department, his family could have a bit more money. I have no clue if that’s coming out the way it is in my head but hopefully you get the point.

Secondly, let’s discuss his Dumbledore/Harry mistrust. This might be shorter I don’t know. We’re talking about the headmaster that stored a stone that Voldemort would want in the basement of a school when school was in session. And then Percy had to hear about hi younger brother—aged 11–went down and got like beat up by a massive chess set. And then!! The next year, there’s a fucking snake on the lose that prettifies muggle borns—his own girlfriend being one of them—and the school doesn’t close until like 4 people get attacked or something?? Then to learn that his sister!! His only sister gets taken down into the CHAMBER OF SECRETS!!! And that again, his younger brother, led by Harry Potter, is down there trying to save her. They both practically die. THEN! Sirius Black, suspected murderer, is out and about, looking for Harry Potter, and eventually winds up in the castle where he seemingly almost kills his younger brother in his bed. I think Percy is extremely justified in his mistrust in Dumbledore. Harry, I think, is a bit trickier. I think it has to do with a mix of jealousy. That here’s this boy that is now practically a Weasley and somehow everyone likes this new kind better and treat him better than Percy. Then, of course, Harry’s blind trust in Dumbledore. And we know that Percy doesn’t like Dumbledore. The two of them are the common denominators for why his family keeps almost getting killed. There’s also this manipulation from the ministry. He’s 18 when they first start messing with his mind and telling his these things. So he believes them. I mean, it’s the ministry, they want what’s best, right?

Maybe I’m just projecting onto him.

Ok I’m going to end it there because I spent an hour doing this already. There’s a lot more I can say but I have class soon. Tell me what you guys think.

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vateacancameos · 7 years

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Meta list of Weird S3 Callbacks in TST

Delurking because the massive number of callbacks to S3 in TST is crazy and I haven’t seen a meta list of them yet.

I’ll be the first to admit I don’t care for EMP (we lose too much character building in the back half of HLV), but writing all of these down makes me think that at least something mind palace-y is going on. I’m guessing (like many others already have), that Sherlock is processing the actual events of this ep, but we’re seeing TST through his lens/brain rather than something more omniscient.

Anywho, my reason for writing all of these down is partly to help me process what’s going on—but if anyone else can take what I’ve listed and make something real of it, go for it—but mostly just so everyone has a meta list of all of the major/weird callbacks to S3.

Feel free to add any you notice. I purposefully left out major plot points (e.g., Mary’s back story, Sherlock’s emotional growth) because those are pretty noticeable on their own. My list is more about stuff casuals would miss but also not TJLC-specific stuff. Just really weird callbacks that don’t seem to fit if we’re getting a straight ahead WYSIWYG story.

List by episode is below the jump.

TEH

“Save John Watson.”

The word “quiver”. “Every quiver of its beating heart” vs “Every quiver of the web” and “If you can attenuate to ever strand of quivering data…”

“I always know when the game is on” Why? “Because I love it.” vs “You love it.” “Love what?” “Being Sherlock Holmes.”

Halitosis: the train guy with the “appalling halitosis” vs the guy whose wife leaves him because his breath stinks

People referencing chess without really playing it: Mycroft and Sherlock playing Operation instead of chess vs the ambassador being bored with chess and talking about other things. OH! They were talking about amo (love) and Mycroft and Sherlock were talking about hearts. Whaaaat.

“Your face!” [laughter] Said by Sherlock to John (traincar scene) and to Mary (in Morocco)

HLV

Sherlock the dragonslayer.

Sharks.

Mary and Sherlock’s wound positions.

“It’s not like the movies. There isn’t a spurt of blood.” vs Mary’s spurt of blood.

John’s reaction to Sherlock’s death vs his reaction to Mary’s.

John “forgives” Mary scene vs John watching Mary “die” scene. (i.e., he never says “ILY” or “I forgive you.”)

“I will shoot/kill you Sherlock/Ajay.”

“You could’ve called, you could’ve talked to me” vs “You could have talked to me” because “that’s what couples do.”

Mary continuing to not say words and letting the person she’s with draw their own (false?) conclusions. (Sherlock in the “Watsons have a Domestic” scene, and John in Morocco.)

Mary’s posthumous video vs Moriarty’s.

Sherlock mistaking an identity: “If you’re going to commit murder, you might consider changing your perfume, Lady Smallwood.” “Sorry. Who? That’s not Lady Smallwood, Mr. Holmes.” vs “…your boss, Moriarty.” “Who?” “It must be him.” “You think you understand. You understand nothing.” (fight scene with Ajay)

Mary’s face superimposed on the Empty Houses vs her passport photo staying on the wall next to the motorcycle she gets on (in Russia?) (transitions from her photo to a map to the wall, but her face stays throughout)

TAB

“Never could resist a touch of the dramatic.” Same phrasing in both TAB (church scene) and TST (aquarium scene when talking to Vivian Norbury)

Sherlock not noticing John the balloon vs John the empty chair (“worked surprisingly well”)

Everyone is stupid. Most people are stupid. vs John is smarter than he looks.

Sherlock does Holmes’s voice from TAB while talking to Rosie (even uses a similar line “As ever, Watson, you see, but you do not observe.”)

“It’s never twins.”

Meeting Mary in old churches.

“The curtain rises.” (seriously v. odd for Sherlock to text Mary that, and then also say it to Norbury). Originally said in TGG, but again in TAB.

“Tell her she’s a dead woman, she’s a dead woman walking.” vs “Emelia Ricoletti, again, a dead woman walking the Earth.”

Yelling about Sherlock not keeping his promises. Lady Carmichael “You promised! You promised you’d keep him safe!” vs John: “You made a vow!”

Sherlock getting tickled over a weird case. “Ohhh, this is a good one. Is it my birthday?” (TST) vs “Murder as street theater? Lestrade you’re spoiling us.” (TAB)

“She knew she was dying….so she made her death count” (the Bride) vs Mary, as an assassin/spy/watevs knowing she wouldn't live to be old, chose to go out in her own way (note that I don’t think Mary is being a martyr in the traditional sense; just that she chose her time of death for a reason)

Indicators that what we’re seeing is a dream/memory/reproduction/thing: Shaking scenes in TAB. Water and Ajay’s memory of being beaten transitioning to him drinking in TST.

“The whole thing is verging on OCD. My respects.” (Sherlock to Mr. Welloughsby [??]) vs “Probably adequate, given your levels of OCD. (Mycroft to Sherlock).

Weird listing of phrases about Moriarty’s motives. “It’s designed to beguile me, tease me, lure me in.” vs “You’re trying to distract me, derail me.”

“Being slow” phrases: “slow younger brother” (Mary in TAB) “you were slow, Sherlock” (Mary in HLV), “Motherhood has made you slow, Mary” (Sherlock in TST) “I’ve been slow, far too slow” (Sherlock in TST) BONUS! Sherlock: “I am an idiot. I know nothing.” Mary: “Well I’ve been telling you that for ages.”

Mary’s use of “my darling”

Music

Music is getting its own section because why not? I’m kind of crap at listening to music while I watch a show, so I probably missed a ton, but these were the ones that stood out even to me.

Mayfly Man music plays for just a bit when Mary drugs Sherlock with the paper (I feel like I heard it somewhere else, too, but can’t remember now).

Rock Sherlock music (from Anderson’s theory about Sherlock’s jump in TEH) during Sherlock’s “deduction” of the man with the “spy wife.”

“The Lie in Leinster Gardens” during Sherlock and Mary’s talk in the church basement.

The forgiveness scene (John and Mary in HLV) music plays over John and Mary’s little conversation in Morocco and John said he used to like Mary.

The first scene of Ajay dreaming has what I’m fairly certain is S3 music, but I can’t place it.

Deduction/mind palace music from TEH is in the scene of Sherlock and Lestrade at 221B after the fight with Ajay and Sherlock saying Ajay used to work with Mary.

Tagging a few people who understand meta waaaaay more than me and hopefully don’t mind me dragging them down to my super amateur level. ;-) Hopefully some of y’all find it helpful.

@inevitably-johnlocked, @delurkingdetective, @heimishtheidealhusband, @thepineapplering, @joolabee, @marcespot, @blueink3, @jenna221b, @the-7-percent-solution, @deducingbbcsherlock

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