The Amy Dallon/Cassie Animorphs Venn Diagram
Because my time is NOT valuable, and I am very easily persuaded to waste it. (Context here)
Starting easy: a major part of their sense of identity revolves around healer jobs. Cassie assists her parents informally in caring for injured animals; Amy is an honorary doctor. Cassie has significantly less responsibility and is significantly more fulfilled by what she does, but she and Amy both take their jobs quite seriously.
This part of their sense of self clashes horribly with the kind of violence that later becomes expected of them.
They both hold to a strict moral code: at the moments of climax when that code is forced to break, so do they. Cassie in book 9 with the termites and then later eating the baby seal in the arctic; Amy killing for the first time when Bonesaw forces her to and then the confrontation with Victoria. Points of no return, points where you crumble as you realize you were never the person you hoped and prayed to be: the proof is in your actions, and the proof is damning. Doesn’t the fact that you were even capable of these acts speak for itself?
Here’s an even more interesting one: Cassie in the David trilogy and Amy in the s9 arc. Taking all your compassion, all that carefully cultivated empathy, that whole bleeding heart, and channeling it into an act of physical and psychological torture. Cassie masterminds the plan to turn David into a rat. Amy turns Victoria into… well. Worse than a rat, to be sure. And what happens after they convince themselves it was worth it, that it was all they could do, that they had to do it? They break down and cry.
Both loners/standouts within a larger group; subsequent “if it sucks, hit da bricks” mentality. (Cassie quitting the animorphs in book 19 / Amy packing up and leaving her family + the wards in 11h.)
Writing that out, I just realized that they both had significant moral breakdowns directly following their attempts to leave everything behind. Funny, that!
There’s a whole Animorphs book centered around Cassie doing brain surgery. Ok this one’s just a really fun coincidence but c’mon
Both hated and beloathed in-story largely for traitorism/hypocrisy allegations born out of desperate attempts to follow their Code in situations that make it extremely difficult
Both intimately familiar with having “some kind of alien parasite” in their brain
Both proof that you can turn any sweet girl into an instrument of violence with enough nudging. She’ll fight you along the way, but she’ll submit, and she’ll transform, and really it doesn’t matter how much she hates herself along the way.
Cassie = lesbian coded, Amy = lesbian, my case = rested
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Right so this needs preamble but I had the idea of Keith leaving the team suddenly after finding out he's galra and obviously there's some time where the team begin to adjust as they search for him, but I had the idea of Lance having a theory that maybe if they find Keith's mum they'll find Keith and goes to the Blue Lion to see what she remembers and has a similar hologram reality thing that Shiro has when they all go to the mall, with Pidge and Hunk cause obviously they were nosy and wanted to know what his theory was but then whatever heart and sincerity this idea had was immediately over shadowed by this fucking ongoing joke throughout the episode
(Also Lance has a boyfriend that's not Keith in this don't worry about it I wrote a bi arc post about it shush)
*They see Keith's mum enter the Blue Lion to fly her to Earth, dodging left and right leaving them all with so many questions*
Hunk: She's insane
Pidge: She's definitely Keith's mom
Lance: She's cool as hell
....
Pidge: Ew Lance!
Lance confused: Woah what what do you mean
Hunk: Really, Lance?
Lance: What?!
Pidge: Don't get the hots for Keith's mom that's so wrong he doesn't even know her yet!
Lance: Oh my god! What is wrong with you two I don't have the hots for Keith's mom that's sick of you to even suggest
Hunk: Why are you blushing then?
Lance: I'm not- Hunk I'm a taken man!
Hunk: Doesn't mean you don't have eyes, Lance
Lance: Well maybe you think she's hot
..... later when relaying to the team....
Lance: And less important generally but important to me, Baby Keith had a mullet he's always had a mullet it's Canon
Pidge: Also Lance immediately developed the hots for Keith's mom
Lance: Oh my god!! Stop no I didn't, I'm literally dating someone
Shiro: You can date people and still get little meaningless crushes every now and then Lance you still have eyes
Lance: Not you too!
Lance: Also, could everyone stop describing it as getting the hots for people it feels so wrong
* ... later ... *
Lance's boyfriend, a little too innocently: So... a little birdy (or alien equivalent) told me you saw a dashing young blade of marmora today??
Lance: Oh goddamn it! I did not get the hots- I did not get a crush on Keith's mom okay that would be highly inappropriate and wrong cause I'm dating you
Lance's boyfriend:.... you can still find people hot, Lance, besides, hot shot, tall, beautiful freedom fighter that flies like a maniac? I've only heard about her and I think I find her cool
Lance: Okay, you cannot tell anyone on my team about this... buy I will confirm... I did get a little bit of a crush okay... She was just so fucking cool....
Lance's boyfriend: *starts fucking cackling* that's so fucking funny omg!!!
*.... Later, Keith returns with his mom....*
Keith:.... why is Lance avoiding my mom?... does he hate her?....
Hunk, trying not to laugh: I think you'd better ask him
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It makes me so genuinely sad that some of my favorite characters and story and lore in just about anything ever is locked behind Elsword's god awful progression system. Like I love this game enough to cash out for it but so many people I know dropped out before getting to parts of the story that I know they'll love a lot due to it. The only cheap way to consume it is via youtube videos I guess and that's just a damn shame.
The writing in Tirnog and Abyss especially is genuinely fantastic and Monaterra is off to a really good start too. Victoria is one of my favorite characters of all time ever. Her ideals, the way she built Magmelia from scratch, it's all so amazing. The reveal that dream demons (succubus/incubus, like Karis and co.) are all people who have died and found a second life is so fascinating too. It's such an interesting portrayal of nihilism.
"We only enjoy this life because we realized when we escaped from our restraints, how futile everything is. Huhu, but I know you don't understand yet.
Goals, mission... Those are like names. You believe it's yours when someone else bestowed it to you. Though it's yours, it's also not.
Hope, determination... Those are sparks that last only a moment. They soon wilt away like flowers. If so, then the only thing that can be considered eternal is love for yourself, isn't it?"
Abyss as well. You could feel the exhaustion of everyone in the crew as they scramble out of the abyss. The relationship between Aren and Ran is so much more interesting than it really had to be. Aren being the one to seek out Ran, Ran being the one forced to leave because Aren was too perfect of a host and risked being changed by him. The speech Tyr gave when Ran insulted the original Demon King. Amazing stuff.
The whole concept of the Abyss in Elsword is so mysterious and interesting. The fact it just shows up every now and then and they have to deal with it like an annoying thunderstorm. The way it's the origin of demons and the implications of that on Elria, Ishmael, and Henir. The way it's described as alive with a heart and a the opening being like a digestive tract with multiple sections but a tube that goes all the way down. I could go on and on
And don't get me started on demon realm politics.
Anyways Elsword has some of my favorite characters and lore in anything and the fact that few will know because of the progression system makes me very genuinely sad.
God I love Victoria so much.
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