#the power of friendship

[opbackgrounds]

More than any other story I've experienced, One Piece lets character traits simply be traits without pigeonholing them as being positive or negative. You see it most with Usopp and Sanji, but much like Sanji's chivalry, Usopp's negativity is presented as part of who he is. It's not something that must be overcome in order to become a better, more complete person. While it gets him into trouble during Water 7, without it the Straw Hats would have lost here at Thriller Bark.

It feels very much like a role reversal from when Sanji saved Usopp from Jabra back on Enies Lobby. Usopp's particular brand of negativity is something only he can do, and for once the rest of the crew has to depend on him to save the day. While there is character development for Usopp during this fight, the core of who he is as a person doesn't change, and that's a really interesting way to handle character development.

And just like the others can depend on Usopp to beat Perona because of his specific ability, Usopp has to depend on the others to defeat the "weaker" zombies surrounding the room, because he's not strong enough to fight them on his own. Even when Usopp gets his hero moment, he has to rely on others to cover his weaknesses.

#opbackgrounds #usopp #characterization! #themes threads and throughlines #straw hat pirates #teamwork makes the dream work #the power of friendship #ch461

[turtleofthehollow]

Got another fic idea for Alastor and Lucifer cuz they're my faves

We know that Luci tried to redeem demons long ago, and failed miserably at it, so what if he gets a second chance to redeem someone, and it turns out to be Alastor

I can see this going a number of ways

He did it at of spite to annoy the radio demon and miraculously wound up succeeding

Alastor egged him on because he wants to see Lucifer fail at redeeming anyone first hand

Charlie encouraged them to get along, and it somehow ended up with Alastor being redeemed - no one knows how that happened

They made a deal where Alastor gets all of Luci's powers if the King of Hell fails to redeem him

There's so much potential with this set up with Alastor wanting Lucifer to fail for his own amusement, and goes along with it to see how far Luci will go; and Lucifer doing his best because it supports Charlie's goals, and gives him a chance to make up for his past failings

It's made all the better if through all of this, the two actually manage to reconcile their differences and become something close to friends by the end of it

#hazbin hotel fanfic ideas #hazbin hotel fanfiction #hazbin hotel #radioapple #alastor and lucifer #alastor the radio demon #the radio demon #alastor #lucifer #lucifer morningstar #hazbin lucifer #hazbin alastor #enemies to friends trope #the power of friendship

[sirgawainofgalifrey]

Love the recent movie trend from Ballister and Puss in Boots with same aesthetic of "sad grown man having a crisis who's ONLY friend is a literal child"

#+ their sword weilding baddass love interest #whos also a neurotic mess #and betrayed by the protagonist in some way #omg #puss in boots #puss in boots 2 #perrito #kitty softpaws #nimona #ballister boldheart #ambrosius goldenloin #kitty x puss #ballister x ambrosius #the power of friendship

[rfswitchart]

Amity Blight and Her Broken Strings

So, on Twitter, I saw someone say something about Amity and Hunter's relationship (obviously platonic. People who ship them romantically are gross.)

Naturally, I agree with this, as you've seen in my fics Kindness and Forgiveness as well as Road Trip. I feel like they share a best friend/basically sibling sentiment towards each other, and that Amity wouldn't bare ill will towards Hunter having been through the same things he has... HOWEVER, this also brought me to another thought, and it begs a question... Why was Amity, out of all of Hexsquad, able to move when she was turned into a puppet?

Simply really, she was already someone's puppet before and she broke free of their control...

Much like Hunter was because of Belos, Amity was being used, lied to, manipulated and controlled by Odalia. And think about how awful Odalia was to her. Forcing her to break her friendship with Willow, threatening to expel her friends from Hexside, coming between her and her girlfriend. Using her to test weapons and humiliating her publicly. And all so Odalia could have a 'perfect little girl' who was just like her. Amity never understood that things could be different, that she could choose her own destiny. In the care of her mother, she was little more than a puppet...

And of course, we know that Amity's friends helped her realize that. Especially one who kinda became a little more than a friend...

And of course, her understanding and realizing that her dream and goal being that she "wanted to choose her path herself" was what awakened Ghost and gave her a staff. Being able to control your own life, as a victim of child abuse, is so important, especially when you've gone through as much as Amity and especially Hunter. And that's why I think she was able to move on her own, because she is no one's puppet, not anymore. Amity Blight broke free of her chains and she is never, EVER, going to be shackled and puppeted again...

#the owl house #toh amity #amity blight #child abuse #surviving trauma #emotional health #No one's puppet #the power of love #the power of friendship #rose gold #lumity

[besttropeveershowdown]

The Worst Trope Ever Showdown: Round 1, Side A

Found the Right Person

a character is single and content with it. they say they aren't interested in dating and haven't felt this way about anyone. others keep telling them stuff like "you just haven't found the right person yet" and they always respond saying that they don't want to. but then, mostly right at the end, they do find the right one and start a relationship with them that comes very sudden and is like weirdly intense. bonus points if the character is a strong and independent woman and then in the end decides to give up her job or hobbies for love or whatever.

Propaganda:

I hate it so much. I'm aroace and people constantly ask me when I will finally find a partner or that I just haven't fount the right one yet. I do not want to find the right one! leave me alone! and seeing these characters that I can relate to, that have a good life, maybe a cool hobby and friends who is also constantly asked this and says that they don't want a partner, and then having them stripped of this aspect because suddenly they find the love of their life and drop these things because their partner wants them to, is not fun. because this implies that everyone deep inside wants to find someone, and people who say that they don't are lying. because apparently only finding love and admitting that you were wrong and actually wanted this all along can make you happy. amatonormativity at its best. people will point to these characters and be like "look, even they could find love, there is still a chance for you", fuck off

The Power of Friendship

Companionship with others is a character's greatest strength.

Propaganda:

This trope seems to be everywhere, from books to tv shows to movies. It's always at the end of the fight when everyone is about to give up and then the hero launches into a speech about this and all of a sudden they have the strength to defeat the villian even though they were literally about to die

#the worst trope ever showdown #wtes polls #anti-tropeaganda #found the right person #the power of friendship #tw aphobia

[crimeoflove]

something i love about the song of achilles is how the pair of them are like sexually dissatisfied hobgoblins when they're seperated for more than a day.

'we drank deeply for all we had missed'?

BULLSHIT.

that's just confusing code words for 'yeah we smashed all night'

you horny bastards.

#tsoa #tsoa achilles #tsoa patroclus #tsoa patrochilles #patrochilles #the song of achilles #achilles #patroclus #they're so gay #gay #the horniest fuckers i ever knew #greek mythology #historians will say they were close friends #the power of friendship #achilles and patroclus #heroes and their pals

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Happy 400th Anniversary (and one day) to the First Folio of Shakespeare's Plays.

Quote from the Wikipedia article about it:

The printing of the Folio was probably done between February 1622 and early November 1623, and the book was entered into the Stationers' Register on 8 November 1623 (Julian calendar).

The very existence of the First Folio kinda makes me want to cry happy tears every time I think about it. It was published about six years and some time after Shakespeare's death, and without it, about half of his plays would have been completely lost.

And the reason it exists at all is because his friends and colleagues did the work compiling his plays and raising the money to get the book printed.

Shakespeare himself may have doubted that his work had any worth. But his friends cared enough about his legacy to make sure his plays were remembered.

#Shakespeare #The First Folio #the power of friendship

[lovinglonerhybrid]

So Cody burns is like twilight sparkle. put him in any situation and he solves it with the power of found family and friendship. I mean at this point Cody burns would bring shockwave into the family and he would find it logical.

#transformers #maccadam #transformers prime #tfp #tfrb #rescue bots #cody burns #the power of friendship #Cody burns is twilight sparkle #shockwave #tfp shockwave #tfrb cody

[batbusiness-schooldropout]

Yugi: I'm going to be so clear with you right now. We are friends. I don't care what nonsense tsundere bullshit you're about to spout. You literally come over once a month to play Mario Kart. We. Are. Friends. And if you keep this little denial game of yours, our grandchild will be beasties. Understand? We will be neighbors in the retirement home

Kaiba: I'm somewhere between 3 and 14% scared right now

#yugioh #yugi mutou #seto kaiba #the power of friendship

[abookishderg]

Augie be like: "I'm going to defeat you with the power of friendship, and this gun I found!" I fuckin love this character

#critical role #cr spoilers #critical role liveblog #candela obscura #candela spoilers #the power of friendship #and this gun I found #ashley johnson

[amanita-muscaria-lover]

Violet and Ridoc's friendship is like nothing I've ever experienced

#violet sorrengail #ridoc #my post #rebecca yarros #xaden riorson #the fourth wing #iron flame #xaden x violet #imogen #rhiannon matthias #garrick #bodhi #sawyer #eya #sloane mairi #the power of friendship

[opbackgrounds]

Before driving deeper into Usopp’s side of thing, I want to focus a little bit on Luffy, because as I’ve mentioned previously, this fight between has a bit of a different flavor from other Luffy-centric battles, but what I haven’t mentioned yet is how public all this is. The final battles with big bads like Arlong, Crocodile, and Enel were all away from other people, but not here. The shift of Luffy becoming a more public figure started with his ass whooping of Bellamy way back in Jaya, but even that was only in front of a bunch of pirates. Showing up to rock Enies Lobby is what’s really going to launch him into the public spotlight, and so it stands to reason that this final stand against Lucci is seen by both the marines and the Straw Hat Pirates.

So far he and Lucci have been on pretty equal footing, but Lucci managed to save his last big trump card until this moment, and seems to have Luffy beat when Usopp shows himself for real. Oda puts a ton of emphasis on Luffy’s expression, this panel alone taking up 3/4 of the page.

And, like, imagine Luffy’s shock. The gag of him not recognizing who Sogeking is turns on its head and is instead played for the deepest, juiciest drama. Usopp isn’t a Straw Hat anymore. He had no obligation to come to Enies Lobby. But he did.

All throughout Enies Lobby there’s been this running thread of the Straw Hats helping each other out of situations they couldn’t handle alone. Nami saving Sanji, Sanji saving Usopp, Usopp saving Robin. Hell, Robin not trusting her friends to keep her safe from the World Government is what kicked off this mess in the first place. The whole reason Luffy was so adamant about going against Lucci was because he recognized him as the strongest threat to the crew, and it’s Luffy’s job as the captain to protect those under his leadership from that kind of danger.

But right now he can’t. He’s not strong enough. And it’s not until Usopp threatens to put himself in harm’s way against an enemy they both know he has no chance about that he stands up and finishes the fight. Because even the captain needs to be propped up by his crew once in a while, and Luffy would rather die than have one of his crew get killed.

Do you remember now the fight started between Usopp and Luffy in the first place? Usopp argued, using the Merry as a proxy for his feelings, that Luffy would leave behind and abandon the weakest members of his crew to further his own ambition, and here, now, Luffy is showing in a very real way that that’s not true. But even if Luffy is willing to put his life on the line to protect Usopp from people like Lucci, he still needs Usopp’s help. He still needed those words from his best friend in order to stand up one last time. 

#opbackgrounds #one piece #ch427 #usopp #monkey d luffy #themes threads and throughlines #the power of friendship #Oda's expression game is on point

[puckingbeautiessss]

THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP

#hockey #jeremy swayman #Bruins #linus ullmark #swaymark #the power of friendship #boston bruins

[fireheartwraith]

I can't believe Red became a legitimate threat through the power of friendship alone. They kept to themselves and kept to each other. That’s it. And they were first for a while and are currently second. Doing nothing

#qsmp #“oh but they griefed green base” yeah. when there was no one there to stop them #now that are more players? almost never leave their area and are 95% of the time with a teammate #the power of friendship #it is real #and etoiles should join our cult #qsmp red team #qsmp bolas #qsmp bolas rojas

[hopepunk-humanity]

I reunited with a good friend after a long absense, and let me tell yah the power of friendship is really out here conquering all.

I am a devoted believer of the power of friendship and love. I will be 80 years old and I will still cry when friendship and love wins the day. It's good to hear things worked out with you and your friend.

#the power of friendship #the power of love #hopepunk #asks answered #anonymous ask

[rowan-on-the-moon]

who needs romance when friendship is literally the most powerful thing ever to grace this mortal plain

allos please get with the program?? have you never seen a children’s cartoon. ever. the power of friendship can level a fucking city

#twilight sparkle literally became a demigod because she had a ride or die friend group #come on #look at where romantic love got romeo and juliet #that’s right #the eternal void #checkmate allos #/j mostly #aro positivity #aroace #aromantic #lgbtq community #acearo #acespec #the power of friendship