Willow and Gus are underrated, so here is why they are amazing. Starting with Willow:
1. Willow is gentle and willing to be vulnerable to make connections with others. But she is also protective of her heart. She only is willing to open her heart when she sees good and potential in others. Just like how she was willing to reconnect with Amity and how she saw Hunter, a sad boi, and decided he was important.
"I can't say we're friends but... it's a start" / "At one point or another we've all been misjudged. Still think we're pathetic?"
2. Willow is very protective of her friends. She always wants to keep them safe and is willing to fight to do so. She wants to be the rock for her friends. And while this causes her to be closed off emotionally sometimes, she always is there for her friends emotions.
3. Willow is powerful and passionate. She is amazing at plant magic but she also simply loves the plants. She treats them like babies and tries to keep them safe from the boiling rain. She is also the only one that can control her more vicious plants - seen by Viney telling Willow that her plant has been out of control since she's been gone in S3 Ep two.
4. Willow encourages others to be themselves! She is the first to accept Luz as herself without belittling her for her interests. She is the first to not attempt to use Gus as a tool for her classes. She sees Hunter's enjoyment in Cosmic Frontier and praises his cosplay. While others see her friends quirks as problems, she never even suggests that they are an issue.
5. Regarding her development, Willow makes excellent progress in living for herself. She starts out as unconfrontational and passive and grows into a confident and strong young woman. Willow begins her own flyer derby team, fighting against an asshole teacher to do so. She begins to take pride in her magic and work. She realizes that she has worth as a person and just because she struggles in some areas that doesn't make her less than others.
Some of Willow's accomplishments:
- She successfully overpowered Amity and Principal Bump with plant magic at a point where she had not been taught much of the track.
- Helping Luz break into a highly guarded castle along with Gus.
- Winning a game of flyer derby when Professor Hermonculus used magic to make her fail.
- Started a protest to stop Belos (the tyrant that has been silencing people for decades) of at least one hundred people, likely more, from petrifying Eda.
- Helps Amity and Gus break into the Blight Warehouse.
- Fought against Adrian Graye Vernworth (the leader of the illusion coven) and helped group/hide many members of Hexside.
- Alongside Amity, defeated an abomatron that were designed for destroying others (this particular one defeated many other students before reaching them).
- Fought alongside the gang to kill Belos.
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APHVERSE ASK GAME
01. how were you first introduced to aphmau?
02. favorite main character, side-character, ship, and villain?
03. which characters do you think deserve better? which characters do you think deserve less?
04. what are your favorite episodes/scenes?
05. favorite minor character? like barely a fraction of the fandom acknowledges them but you adore them?
06. what are your favorite and least favorite skins?
07. best dynamic in the series? like, whenever these characters are onscreen your brain just explodes?
08. alternatively, what's a dynamic you really want to see in canon?
09. personal bias aside, who do you think is the best written character and why?
10. what is your ideal ending for the series?
11. do you have a rewrite, character reinterpretations/redesigns, or any aus? if so, is there anything you'd like to talk about or snippets you want to share?
12. which roleplay, excluding minecraft diaries and mystreet, is your favorite? (my inner demons, mod mod world, meteora valley, etc.)
13. have your sentiments towards any characters/ships changed over time? (for instance, you didn't care for them at all but now you're obsessed with them, or you used to love them but it's faded over time.)
14. if you could choose an opening and ending theme for the series, what would it be?
15. alternatively, if you could choose a theme song/ost for your favorite character, what would it be?
16. favorite blogs, artists, and writers?
17. any headcanons you're attached to?
18. is there anything about the fandom you dislike?
19. which character would you like to cosplay as?
20. you can only change one plotline in the entire canon—what would it be and how would you alter it?
21. have you ever had a crush on any of the characters? (and do you still have one?)
22. who's the character that you most identify with and why?
23. you get to design an official aphmau game! assuming money or time wasn't an issue, what would that look like? (for example, a visual novel, TTRPG, fighting game, etc.)
24. if you could design your own line of merch, assuming money or time wasn't an issue, what would you choose?
25. aphmau got a cafe collaboration! what food/drink do you think your favorite characters would be?
26. you're tasked with writing an official side story/spin-off roleplay (like void paradox, mermaid tale, upside-down story, etc), what would that look like?
27. what's something really interesting that you wished canon decided to explore more? alternatively, what's something interesting that you wished the fandom acknowledged more?
28. if you could ask jess one question about the series and recieve a direct answer, what would it be?
29. any general unpopular opinions?
30. freebie!
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I did a thing! A Scratch playlist thing! bc I love this guy!!
"A collection of songs that give Scratch vibes and others I think he'd listen to, plus some happier songs from Molly"
there's no particular order because I listen to everything on shuffle so order doesn't matter (to me) 😅 But everything is just what the description says! the happy, hopeful songs are influenced by Molly bc I believe she'd influence his music taste whether he likes it or not lol
While some songs are not platonic I Cannot Stress This Enough: THERE ARE NO SHIPS. NONE IN THIS PLAYLIST. Unless you wanna pretend it's Adia or something but other than that it's all just good vibes or bc Scratch would probably listen to it.
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if you dont mind sharing, what are some of your favorite ska songs/bands?
I will admit I am not a huge band person I tend to be more of a "pick whatever random songs sound good" person, so I can't recommend any good bands. I also listen to Ska Punk, which is a subgenre of Ska... and Punk. So I am not a good authority on Ska songs to listen to I am just someone who is banned from being passed the aux cord...
But some of my favorite songs include:
No Children - Ska (cover)
Quinto Patio Ska
Everything Went Numb
S F D D
And songs by Reel Big Fish tbh. I know I just said I don't listen to specific bands but Reel Big Fish has some pretty good songs like...
Sell Out
And their Take on Me cover
Here's my disclaimer, though: I am not into music subcultures I just listen to whatever sounds good (and jazzy punk with horns sounds good), so I could be giving absolutely awful music recommendations that anyone who is especially into Ska (and more specifically Ska Punk) might find egregious. I personally just grab whatever song sounds good and add them to my forever long playlist.
Also the Jabberjaw (Running Underwater) song from Pain used for the Cartoon Network Boomerang Groovies is probably the reason I enjoy Ska punk so much, and it has been in my playlist for years now:
If nothing else in this list interests you, I require everyone by law to listen to Jabberjaw Running Under Water by pain and watch the Cartoon Network Boomerang Groovie video of it. I used to watch Boomerang a million times, and this was probably the only Groovie I really enjoyed watching and didn't go to the bathroom during.
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