Thinking about how most of the times we see Kol in tvd he's acting as errand boy for his siblings, starting with Rebekah asking him to kill Matt at the ball. If he cared solely about killing someone to spit in the face of Esther's rules he could have killed anyone else after Rebekah changed the plan. The second time, he's in Denver with Jeremy and texts Klaus to let him know if there's anything else his brother needs from him. And later Klaus calls on him to use his presence with Jeremy to threaten Bonnie into undoing the linking spell. Then he's there again to kill Mary when he finds out from Klaus that the mfg are trying figure out who they're sired from after breaking his cover in Denver. He's not even in series 4 up until Rebekah gets undaggered and suddenly he's there to retrieve the professor for her
I just think it's interesting that he's characterised as the volatile and reckless sibling and in the originals we learn that he constantly feels like an outsider in his own family with Klaus, Rebekah and Elijah making up their own little trio with Finn daggered. And yet anytime they need something he's there, almost as though he's still desperately trying to endear himself to them until he inevitably lashes out and gets daggered for it, his efforts constantly unappreciated. The only time he asks them for a favour that I can recall is when he swears Rebekah to secrecy about the dagger he's working on against Klaus only for her to tattle and get him daggered
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if the only way you know how to criticize my handling of Lea is to somehow blame Merry and also Trans Women™️ as a whole then i’m going to be honest: your criticisms are not going to be the ones i listen to. it’s very strange to me now that both times i’ve had people specifically bring up Merry when talking about Lea and also follow it up with, and i quote: “people only care about trans women.” this monolithic Trans Women you keep blaming has nothing to do with the decisions i’ve made about Lea, and i’m begging you to think for like 2 seconds and realize what you are saying and how you sound right now. i’m not even trying to change your mind or your feelings regarding Lea, that conversation has been had many times over at this point, but you have got to stop blaming trans women for.... being more oppressed than you ? come on
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anyways i think. if someone says "i want to do something" and you just fucking leave without them or you make no effort to try to include them or help them include themselves youre not trying hard enough
in other words, a group of us said we wanted to go for a walk but apparently youre not allowed to use the bathroom before you leave so they left without me<3
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This seems a bit out of left field here but I’ve suddenly remembered how Fate’s Cu doesn’t have his battle frenzy and that’s so…odd ??? ?? Because literally every other depiction of Cu adapts it ( such as Smite, who gives him a literal monster transformation) and it’s one of his key character traits but Fate just…doesn’t have it? Not even Berserker!Cu has it. I’m not complaining but it’s just such a odd creative decision.
It’s cause it would completely show up Artoria and Heracles. None of the celtic servants EVER get to truly cut loose. Medb goto be a major villain but 1. Her character revolved around Cu (how Turas Realta fixed that was fcking incredible) and 2. the mythical beings like Cu, Scathach, and Fionn are all severely held back for arbitrary reasons.
This isn’t a joke, to be clear. Like it kind of of is but the Fate franchise has an incredibly racist view of the celtic nations. Despite having the most famous irish hero in the original Stay Night cast, Fate as a series has a ton of pro-imperial britain sentiments and part of that means a disgusting amount of anti-celtic themes, by which i mean themes that intentionally or not support the british destruction of celtic culture and subjugation if its people. The big one is that the british knights are portrayed as “bringing nobility to the celtic savages”.
From a purely writing perspective, Cu not having it in FSN makes sense, he’s the lancer not the berserker and it was established within just the scope of FSN that servants can be summoned to multiple classes. Putting Warp Spasm/Riastrad in would be redundant to Heracles’ character.
But Cu Alter not having it? Oh there’s zero excuse for that. None whatsoever. The only reason I can even imagine for it is not wanting Cu to look too cool. Which would be a stupid reason to assume, were it not for the heavy anti-irish sentiments already running through the series. On top of that, Cu Alter’s mats seem to bend over backwards to explain why he isn’t the Warp Spasm even though frankly he could totally pass as the base form of a Warp Spasm Cu :/
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