Wholesome Showdown! LET'S GO, respectfully please.
Get ready for a long one everybody. (Disclaimer: There's still so much I don't know about. I'm still a newbie fan to the upcoming franchises I will be discussing, so please correct me if I'm mistaken. Thank you.)
Over the past year of 2023, my tastes in media and stuff have shifted significantly. Part of that includes finding a new favorite series of mine and rediscovering two films that I think is close to being a perfect duology (Soon to be a trilogy next year): Ah! (or Oh!) My Goddess and The Paddington Franchise.
These stories always lift my spirit up, and that is in thanks (not entirely, as there are many more reasons to enjoy these tales than just what I'm bringing up) to the main characters of these 2 series: The Goddess Belldandy and Paddington Brown. They always bright up scenes whenever they appear, to the point you feel a smidge bummed out when you don't see them anymore. These two individuals just personify every single positive adjective in existence, which had me come up with an intriguing comparison.
As I continued to discover the extent to how much of a well behaved, friendly, warming aura, infectious smiling, do-gooder of a person Belldandy is, I kept wondering in the back of my mind if there was anyone else in not just manga/anime, but in all of the fiction I know that could even match half of Belldandy's politeness. I'm sure there are several more that I am currently unaware of, but the immediate rival that came to mind was the one and only Paddington the Bear. After a watch of both his films and researching his legacy, the bear of Darkest Peru just radiates the same level of comfort and warmth that Belldandy does. I mean just think about it with their similarities:
Both are polite, well-meaning individuals
They treat everyone they meet with an equal chance of respect and trust
Love animals
Never attempt to harm anyone or have malicious motives
Oblivious to the ill intentions of others most of the time
Open to new experiences/activities
Have an antagonist that wants them gone (Sayoko and Mr. Curry)
Form a face of anger and determination whenever the situation calls for it, but never to inflict it from out of nowhere
Inhumanly Honest
And originating from literature
There are differences to be sure, but you see my point; they're just a couple of goody two shoes that I hope to be even 10% as kind as they are in my own life. I bet $200 that if these two ever met, they would become instant BFFs in a snap. Having said all that, I now lead my character examinations to all you by asking this: Who is the more wholesome character? Who do you believe to be the nicest, friendliest, most caring individual out of these two rays of sunshine, based on what I've explained so far and your knowledge of both contestants?
Have an Extraordinary Life, y'all.
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in my heart of hearts mike wheeler is absolutely an athena kid but i also have to offer up a concept that i think has extreme comedic and dramatic potential aka: repressed gay teenager mike showing up at camp half blood unsure of who his godly parent is and feeling insecure about not having powers and one day when he’s making not-so-secret heart eyes at his best friend and son of apollo will byers is when a bunch of glowing floating hearts show up above his head. and that’s how mike gets claimed by none other than aphrodite, the goddess of love and sexuality, and is in full denial about it for three days because he thinks it’s some kind of sick and twisted JOKE
(on aphrodite’s end, she’s upset mike is throwing away the gift of true love and keeps trying to trick him out of repression by making more and more improbable and hilarious gifts appear when he and will are hanging out. mike hands will a book and it turns into a box of chocolates and he has to fling it away like a frisbee before will sees it. they’re having lunch and romantic music starts playing. she gives mike the same blessing she used to claim piper and will can’t even look in his direction for a full day because he starts blushing so hard. fifty bouquets of flowers show up at the apollo cabin’s doorstep with a note that says love, mike and by the end of it, mike isn’t even repressed and unsure about his sexuality anymore — he’s just trying to not throw himself into the bonfire out of sheer embarrassment)
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