Domesticated Villain Trope
So over in the tag for Trigun - the fandom I am currently active in (I haven't re-watched She-Ra in probably over a year, I'm fully back on my age old space-cowboy bullshit now) someone brought up an official poster-art that appears in the Trigun Art Book for the first 1998 anime. I know it's there, I have that artbook. I don't know if it should be considered canon as the scene was never actually in the show, but it is official post-credits art.
If you've watched the show, it's freaking hilarious. Beware spoilers. (Note: No bearing on the Trigun Maximum manga, which goes a different way, nor on Trigun: Stampede, the reboot series which has only run its first season as yet).
Anyway, the funniest thing about this poster is that... the good guys of the series, all cheerful and fun-loving? Plus a silly cat? They're surrounding and glomming onto a guy (guy in the red and white spacesuit) who has single-handedly murdered millions of people, including his and his twin brother's mom. And this isn't some Y7 show, the original show was PG to PG-13 (the manga and Stampede are definitely R) and even the lighter original anime had a lot of on-screen deaths. With guns. Quite graphic for a teen-anime, actually (and the original manga is just buckets of blood and full-out gore).
Long story short, I flashed back to Hordak and how the She-Ra fandom treats him and debates his redeemability. During the fandom-fights, I always flashed back to Trigun and how both fandom and canon kind of wanted to redeem an actual genocider (Knives was well-crafted and had a sympathetic motivation) vs. "Guy pokes around in his lab all day and does light hands-off torture for lying in his ranks and just sends people to exile and half the fandom wants to kill him. Fun." Conversely, Hordak's fans have done fanart after fanart and fanfic after fanfic doing cute domestic-life stuff with him, making him Entrapta's househusband and having him begrudingly work with the good guys on rebuilding and space-diplomacy missions.
Domesticated Antagonist Trope has gotta be one of my favorite things.
I'm thinking if I can get more back into She-Ra, maybe I'll do a parody-drawing of that Trigun-poster, even though I suspect very few Spop fans will get it. Hordak crosses his arms, Adora hangs on around his neck like Vash, Scorpia's in the background, there's Entrapta holding Imp and there's an annoyed Catra sitting on the edge of the bench.
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in the latest Nonsense in my house, I have begun to occasionally ask Gus “what does a catboy say?” and of course he goes “meow!!” bc he is a chatty little man and likes when I talk to him, and of course then I go “that’s right!!!! they go meow!!!! you’re so smart!!!!” and nobody else thinks it’s funny but we amuse each other and that’s what rly matters
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a slight continuation of this
no caller ID pops on your screen, pulling your attention away from your previous task at hand: not fucking up your eyeliner. you typically wouldn’t care if it was a little uneven, but you’re going on a date tonight, for the first time in so long, and you want everything to go as smoothly as possible.
which is why you groan when you end the call, and that same no caller ID pops right back up seconds later. you know who it is—who else would it be? you figured he’s already seen your story of being excited for going on your first date in a while, on the only app you hadn’t blocked him on. petty? perhaps, but it’s on him to be keeping up with you despite you cursing him out for wasting your time and then blocking him right after.
you watch it ring though, contemplating for a while longer than you should. you blocked him for a reason. no need to entertain his same shit that he always spews to you when he realizes that he might be losing you once more?
….but it doesn’t hurt to hear the hero beg for you.
“What do you want, Bakugou?” You sigh irritably as you finally answer his call, putting him on speaker as you go back to even out your eyeliner. You hear him huff on the other side of the phone at the use of his surname, but he doesn’t say anything about it, instead, quickly telling you what he’s been bothering you for.
“Who’s the fuckin’ loser that’s gonna drool over how good your tits look in that stupid green dress you love so much?” Bakugou grunts, and you instantly feel your face heating at his crude words. You glance over with a frown at that same green dress that makes your tits look good, where it hangs on your closet.
“None of your damn business, Bakugou.” You snap at him, wondering if it’s too late to find something else to wear. “Not like you ever took me out in my stupid green dress.” Your voice holds a level of bitterness that only he can bring out of you, and you hear his sigh through the speakers.
“I told you this before, I’m always—”
“Busy.” You cut him off, voice suddenly thick as you think back on the countless rejections he’s splattered at your feet every time you tried to further your relationship with him. “You reminded me of how busy you’ve been since you first started this whole situationship.”
“Situation—? Huh? We were dating!” Bakugou protests with a huff, and you can hear how he paces the floor quickly. You glare at your phone, setting down your liner to instead pick of your (his) favorite lipgloss.
“You’d have to ask me out to be dating, Bakugou. You’d have to court me to be dating, Bakugou. You’d have to make time for me and take me out on dates and not hide me to fucking date me, Bakugou.” You spit at him, venom dripping off of your lips in waves. You don’t know why you answered, why you even entertained him. You shake your head with a huff when the line goes quiet, eyebrows quirking up when your date sends you a text to make sure you’re still on for tonight.
“I’m sorry.” Bakugou mutters pathetically, his voice suddenly soft. You hesitate, for some reason, when it comes to texting your date back. Why do you always hesitate when Bakugou is around?
“Let me make it up to you, court you, and shit. I can take you to one of my favorite places, you can wear that pretty green dress and that gloss you know I love.” His voice is pleading, thickening and sweet and suffocating. You shouldn’t respond, should reply back a yes to your date.
“Please? You know how much you mean to me.” Bakugou mumbles, and you can hear the earnestness in his voice. Why haven’t you said yes to your date yet?
“I’ll do better this time. Just one more chance, sweetheart.” Bakugou’s voice is so soft, you’ve never heard him this vulnerable before. You sigh with a shake of your head, slumping back into your seat in defeat.
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Sorry, I can’t make it tonight. Something came up. Maybe we can reschedule for another time?
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I respect Jenny Han’s impulse to add as much drama to every situation possible. XO Kitty is like “what if we were both girls and you hired my long distance boyfriend to be your beard bc you were gay and closeted and then you dumped him so that he and I could be together again except now that I can be with my boyfriend I’ve fallen for you, the girl he was hired to date, making me realize that I also like girls. And also my boyfriends roommate was in love with me too < 3”
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I feel like half my text posts here are apologizing for not being around/responsive but I also feel the need to do it again. I see your tags, your asks, all of it, and I really appreciate them and I’m sorry I haven’t answered anything recently
Between losing old cat 2 weeks ago and the long illness leading up, I’m just still coming to terms with things I feel like. I’m mostly okay, but it comes in waves, and I still really miss her. I hope I’ll be up to some regular internet actives soon, I know it’s been a long time, but I really mean it when I say I appreciate the interaction and I really want to interact back as soon as my brain is in a better place
So yeah idk I don’t have a good closing, I just feel bad (and I’m super hormonal right now so I’m in my feels about literally everything at the moment lmao) so I just wanted to make this post to say I see you, I appreciate you, please don’t give up on me, and I really hope that this funk will lift soon so I can interact back as you all deserve
As a consolation, pls look at her sleepy little face, she was so good
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I think that perrito is not nearly as innocent as he seems. But not in terms of trauma, in terms of life. Like he knows what sex is, what alcohol (leche?) does, what all the curse words mean, etc. He just pretends like he doesn’t bc he thinks it’s funny when ppl try to explain it to him.
He says fuck one day and puss goes, “eh�� perrito, why don’t we not use that word.” He goes, “why?” Puss says, “it’s, um, a bad word.” Perrito then gets the immeasurable joy of asking, “oh. What does it mean?” and watching puss struggle to answer in a way that wouldn’t compromise his supposed innocence.
Ofc he tries to push it as far as he can by asking things like, “what do you mean ‘sleep together?’” And “Like take a nap?” And “ohh, like what you and Kitty do?” Until puss is so flustered, embarrassed, and frustrated that he has to remove himself from the conversation lol
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