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melrosing · 11 months

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To answer YOUR question positive cersei content is kind of an oxymoron to me outside of the obvious jokey girlboss stuff. I guess the closest thing to 'positive' cersei content is acknowledging that she's the way that she is for a pretty good reason and doesn't exist as evil bitch in a vacuum. Where i see Tyrion being talked about more positively (but tbf positively isn't the word I meant to use, i'd say more sympathetically) is in your au that you did about joanna.

my last ask got too long for the tumblr Gods so here's the end of it: The interpretation I got from your au was deff sort of a "Jaime and Tyrion are still loved and get their mothers love even though it's conditional but Cersei is the only one who has any explicit negative feelings towards her mom and isn't made immediately sympathetic" I'm not sure if you or others would agree but it was something that jumped out to me and made me go hmm… if that makes sense. I don't hate your au btw! I thought your characterization of joanna was really unique and intriguing.

I agree, 'positive Cersei content' sounds kind of counterintuitive - there aren't really any positive themes in Cersei's story to riff off of.

but to your point on 'acknowledging that she's the way that she is for a pretty good reason and doesn't exist as an evil bitch in a vaccuum' - I feel it's fair to say I do acknowledge this. I've always said I feel like there's both nature and nurture in all the characters and especially Cersei, that she wouldn't be Cat if she were raised by Hoster (for example), but she wouldn't be the woman she is in canon, either.

I don't think human beings are born as blank slates, and I don't think that notion makes for good character work, so sure, I'd certainly argue Cersei has some traits her brother's don't, just as Tyrion has traits the twins don't, and so on. but I get the impression you've read more of my posts than the most recent, so do you reckon one could say that I don't advocate that she's an 'evil bitch in a vaccuum'?

as for 'talking about Tyrion more positively' in the Joanna AU - again, personally I don't feel like I do? it's pretty much canon that Cers is full of fury and long has been, and the hcs are really about how I feel that fury would manifest against Joanna in a situation where I think, if it were canon, Joanna would essentially have committed a great wrong against her daughter whilst trying to do something right. and as for Joanna preferring her sons to her daughters in this AU, if anything that was inspired by my mother and grandmother lmao. like this kind of misogyny on the part of mothers in disdaining their daughters and glorifying their sons is veeery familiar to me and I could really see it for Cersei and Jo.

so that's some of my thinking behind the posts, if that helps you understand where I'm coming from!

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ibrahimnerde · 2 years

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Dilruba vs Mihrimah character who you liked more? Do you think Dilruba should’ve idolized Mihrimah the same way Safiye idolized Hurrem?

I personally like Dilruba more cause perhaps she managed to do her “duty” as a princess help brother AND achieve her own happiness. She married Davud who is her happiness AND her political supporter. Also Dilruba’s happiness came into achieving power so not just lovable marriage is what she wants, she also wants power and Davud brought her both. That’s why I love her she managed to achieve what truly makes her happy.

Mihrimah tho…she doesn’t view happiness the way Dilruba views it. Dilruba , as I said, happiness comes in love and power but she showed that she could sacrifice one for the other like agreeing to marrying Halil pasha despite not liking it cause she will achieve power through him (or she thought) then she found Davud who will give her power and love as cherry on top. Mihrimah main happiness was shaped in a fairly tale love story. Mihrimah while almost her whole life was regarded in a high position being daughter of Padisah and Haseki sultan , had great wealth and was desired , while Dilruba never had 1/3 of what Mihrimah had , Mihrimah never had 1/3 of Dilruba’s happiness and conent state . That’s because Mihrimah desires in life were different almost unrealistic with her situation. Not saying Mihrimah didn’t do her “duty” no she married Rustem and stole the seal that brought down Mustafa that’s not my point tho.

A point I notice in Dilruba and it isn’t with Mihrimah is that Dilruba’s antics and behavior is explained through her childhood. Meaning little Dilruba always showed signs of disturbance and hunger of power and we know that’s mostly because Halime upbringing to her was always wanting Mustafa on throne to achieve power. We know what shaped Dilruba’s greed of power, Mihrimah tho…what shaped her greed of wanting a fairy tale love? Okay she liked Bali bey but that doesn’t explain her desire to want pure love story and always searching for it plus she got over bali bey. Maybe because she thought her parents love was fairy tale-like? To us viewers it isn’t but to her? But then she witnessed her father cheating on her mother. Honestly imo Mihrimah’s character was done a disservice like how many love arcs we got with her? Why not show her power? Tbf with Mihrimah we got to see her venerable , powerful (girlboss), confused , guilty and many more sides. Dilruba it was almost one dimensional she is always angry , ruthless and greedy. In little moments like getting kidnapped we saw her cry but her ruthless side is shown way more it is hard to sympathize with her. Even her romantic moments with Davud weren’t really that romantic.

Dilruba idolizing Mihrimah? Why? What point of connection Dilruba had with Mihrimah? Like Safiye worshiping Hurrem is justified because Safiye was trained by Mihrimah, Hurrem’s daughter, who probably showed the best side of her mother. Also it fits with Hurrem’s legacy in the show. Dilruba was born to Halime , Halime who was hated by Safiye which means Safiye didn’t carry on what she learned to Halime so it didn’t reach Dilruba. Mihrimah within the show didn’t have any type of legacy or power showcase , she didn’t even carry the ring. Mihrimah to Dilruba is probably just a dead sultana that once lived. Maybe parallelism between them (event tho they were very different) would have been great but to have Dilruba state she idolizes Mihrimah is very random. At the end Safiye carried Hurrem’s ring and learned about her through someone she loved. Dilruba knows Mihrimah from book probably (or she hates her for bringing Safiye)

#magnificent century #magnificent century: kösem #muhteşem yüzyıl #muhteşem yüzyıl kösem #mihrimah sultan #dilruba sultan #Honestly we couldn’t get enough of Dilruba #I love Mihrimah tho just got tired of her predicted storyline

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bobzora · 3 years

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official persona 5 character review

i have only played up to the end of the third palace but i won’t be able to play for a few weeks because my sibling has ABANDONED ME (single tear) and we play together. and i’m bored. so HERES MY REVIEW of all the major characters so far. under read more because i do tend to ramble

- mc/joker (bob johnson)

why is my silent video game protagonist a catboy. it’s funny to me how much personality he manages to have despite being. yknow. a blank slate to project on. charisma! the dialogue options when you’re talking to shadows that are like “girl power!” live in my mind. joker is a girlboss to me. feminism win

- ryuji

he’s like one of those very excited big dogs where you’re like “oh good for you buddy! oh yeah buddy!” but you’re also just like man this is a bit much. on one hand he’s a very good guy but on the other hand sometimes i feel a very strong urge to insult him or just be mean to him in general, often for no particular reason. i like him i really do he just has that kind of personality. he’s a bro. his pirate thing is funny i know they’re named after like. historical figures/characters in literature(?) but captain kidd sounds so. it’s funny ok. it’s funny. he’d be a backyardagain. i like how he’s a mamas boy that’s cute. sorry about your leg buddy. he’s very. naive isn’t the right word but something like that. i still want to bully him. his grin looks dumb (endeared)

- morgana

i think it’s funny how big his head is when he’s in his metaverse mascot form he’s like a bobblehead i want him to fall over from the weight. the gags about his puppy crush on ann and his dislike of being called a cat are ANNOYING like sorry about your identity crisis but i really don’t care. he is cute sometimes though it’s not like i hate him but he’s a little annoying! you know! i’m not big on mascot characters in general haha

- ann

i adore ann she is cute and great and she deserves a lot better get this girl a better costume PLEASE. at the start of the game i was already rooting for her hardcore cause everyone was being terrible to her (very common occurrence that happens to like every character i have noticed. Society) and then she had that thing where she was like “let’s have him continue to live so he can suffer more” and i was like HELL YEAH ann is always saying the truth man. other thieves like “yah it wouldn’t be moral to kill them” (tho they’re cool with the mind control lol 🤔) but ann’s like “idc about that lol i just want him to suffer” SO TRUE. so true. i like her pigtails

- yusuke

ngl before i started playing i kind of already knew that i’d like this guy. i didn’t know much about him other than gay little artist but i knew. i was right. i am incredibly fond of this guy. partially because i too am a weirdo artist with parental issues (his persona awakening had me like *vibrates*) but mostly because he is just so funny. look at this guy! look at his stupid little tail! i lost my mind while doing his first confidant event thing he is GREAT. VERY cool. i just really like him. i could sit there and listen to his long impassioned speeches for a long time

- makoto

i was a big fairy tail fan in early middle school (unfortunate) and i play in dub so every time she opens her mouth i can only hear lucy/every other dub character her va has voiced cause there’s lots of them. ok first of all i’m not a big fan of her character archetype. yknow the straight laced student council president type. nothing personal just not my thing yknow! i do sympathize with her Issues of being useful and being used by the adults around her ofc but i’m not like INVESTED invested. tbf i haven’t known her too long. what’s his face mafia guy’s palace didn’t feel as personal as the last couple which probably contributes to that (underwhelming). on the other hand i really like that she has a motorcycle i was like ?! QUEEN and then THAT WAS HER CODENme??? very cool of her. i don’t care about her that much but i do think she is cool. if i were to encounter her irl i would be so intimidated

- akechi

he has not joined the team yet but he obviously will. i have not seen much of him yet but i do have many opinions. i did know he was this games komaeda archetype before playing because of the sheer amount of arguing i can vaguely remember scrolling past about him but even if i didn’t i would’ve instantly been able to tell. he’s fake as hell. i lose it every other sentence whenever he’s on screen WHO IS THIS GUY. “thesis antithesis *pretentious stuff*” “woowwwww you’re so interesting ^-^” “woahh look we happen to have met waiting for the train teehee” (whenever he pops up in those train scenes it feels like a jumpscare) there is a high percentage chance that i will like this guy a lot. there is a precedent for me really liking that sort of character and he is very entertaining. i hope he is just so unhinged. i mean there’s like a 99% chance he’s the ~mysterious guy causing all the accidents~ and also the “heh kid u were betrayed by one of your own” guy. so. he gives me the vibes of one of those really tiny cutesy dogs who are just incredibly aggressive. funny to me how ryuji hates him to an absurd degree like buddy chilll yeah he sucks but wowww. i LOVE that stupid doodle of him on the classroom chalkboard. the anime sparkles. his hair is ugly btw. we met on 6/9 which turns me into a 12 year old. i enjoyed our silly little tv debate

- futaba

i’m 99% sure that’s the name of the girl with the orange hair and glasses? i haven’t met her yet. she does the hackerman typing thing in the opening which is cute. i’m just mentioning her because i think she’s cute. she’s a techie with orange hair so i’ll probably like her

- fluffy brown hair girl

only character in the game art i haven’t mentioned so i kind of have to so it’s fair. she looks kind?? very fluffy. fluttershy is probably her favorite my little pony. she would eat bread

IN CONCLUSION everybody here needs therapy and also i’m mad that i got invested in a game with time / resource management / stealth mechanics :/ . the battle system is very cool. also the menus are the best character they’re SO sexy

#bobtalk #i have other thoughts bc i’m That Guy but have the rambles of someone who isn’t even halfway done with the game #i want to gnaw on something #please ignore the number of times i said “like” this isn’t an english essay ok. ok?

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