#this goes to multiple characters for me actually

[hypostatic-oath]

HG HE JEBE HIHIHI IM SOOO OBSESSED WITH THE OVERSEER CONTENT ITS SO NEW TO ME AAAAAAAAAAA I LOVE IT

ahem ahem NORMAL!!!

anyways do you have any thoughts on how coop works in this version of sagau?? is it like delving into a different timeline of characters or is it like the known existence of multiple overseers?? very interested in this whole overseer plot i can’t wait to see how it goes!!!

AAAAAAA IM SO HAPPY TYSM

As for this ask, coop was actually something I thought about wayyyy back when crafting my own little interpretation of sagau lore.

Essentially, Overseer!Lore accepts every single Teyvat as a canon teyvat. Think like, parallel universes, wherein the only variable is which Overseer (aka which player) is steering the proverbial boat. I would say that the level of awareness regarding those "mirror Teyvats" depends heavily on how often the player of one specific world uses co-op.

Some characters - those whose players love co-op - are more than used to seeing doubles walking around. I would say that Childe for example would definitely not mind seeing a double (and by that I mean he would throw hands ON SIGHT, and both versions of him would be 100% down). However, for characters whose overseers rarely if ever play on co-op... well, their Teyvats are more of a closed ecosystem, and introducing an outside element would turn a few heads.

Then, of course - the characters who, while in co-op, get a chance to chat to their counterparts, and compare the differences in their respective worlds. No Teyvat is the same, after all, and neither are Overseers all alike. Not to mention, the various Teyvats are working on their own isolated timeframe. Let's just say that if a post-archon quest world Neuvillette met a pre-archon quest world Furina, there WOULD be tears. And most likely the hug that poor girl needs. At least Neuvillette is sensible enough not to let slip anything about the events that unfolded in his homeworld. (There is also the matter of Scaramouche... and Rhukkadevata. How would Teyvat handle the influx of forbidden knowledge? I headcanon that the Traveler would have to pull the gaslight of the century and attribute the differences in lore to the different Overseers in charge.)

One thing that would be extremely bittersweet, though? The one important choice players can make is the choice regarding the twin. The Traveler seeing their twin in co-op would undoubtedly shake them. A mirror version of their sibling, thrust into the same unexplicable situation as they were - convinced that the other has abandoned them, or that they are lost. The shared loneliness, the mutual understanding, all with the fact that they both look like each other's missing piece while not being the right fit at all. They can find a modicum of comfort in one another, but at the end of the day, both of them know that that's not their family. The loneliness seems even more crushing.

#sagau #genshin sagau #self aware genshin au #cube.answers #sagau overseer #i have returned from my eons-long slumber #my apologies for the delay y'all

[daddiesdrarryy]

"Hear me out he didn't do anything wrong" No! Stop erasing my man's flaws. He did everything wrong and that's why I love him, for all the bad and the worst parts of him

#he's a psycho or he's a cannibal or he's an asshole and i still love him #this goes to multiple characters for me actually #fictional characters #fandom #fiction #and the beautiful parts of him but that's not the point of this post #stop with the cleansing my man doesn't need fixing he's beautiful as he is #fandom things #i acknowledge all the shitty things he did #hannibal lecter #henry creel #draco malfoy #billy hargrove #barty crouch jr #evan rosier #laurent of vere #you can add whatever character you want #tagging a few here that i can think of #lucius malfoy #billy loomis #stu macher #will graham #fandom life

[cycle-hit]

0610 is so funny because mahiru is determined to be a housewife/maternal figure and kotoko is determined to parallel all the other prisoners' shitty fathers. both of them having the traits of "parental figures" that is a mold/box to be shoved into in and of itself which shows the traditional/black and white aspects of their own families. mahiru is determined to be full of love and give others that same love and kotoko pretends she doesn't love at all and bares her teeth whenever you show her love. mahiru has sun symbolism and kotoko has moon symbolism.

and then instead of ever acknowledging the absolutely insane character foil toxic yuri between those two at all, milgram refuses to let them interact ever again except for one interaction from four years ago at the very beginning and kotoko beating the shit out of mahiru. like. thanks milgram. if YOU wont do anything with your very interesting character foils that can also fall into classic "romance tropes" (which mahiru is obsessed with, cough) with their personalities/stories i guess ill do it myself.

#it does piss me off a bit honestly. kotoko and mahiru are both very fascinating characters that have a ton of interesting potential- #for interactions. and then milgram just goes “yeah theyre not interacting ever again. lol. lmao. fuck you”. THERES SO MUCH POTENTIAL!!! #AND YOU SQUANDER IT!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE YAMANAKA LET THEM INTERACT BEFORE MILGRAM ENDS!!! I DONT EVEN CARE IF THEYRE NOT TOXIC YURI!!!! #THE ROMANCE ISNT NECESSARY!!! PLEASE JUST LET YOUR TWO MOST INTERESTING CHARACTER FOILS INTERACT!!!!!!! #AAAAUUUUUGGGGHHHHH. WHATS THE POINT OF MAHIRU TELLING US MULTIPLE TIMES ABOUT KOTOKO IN HER T2 VD IF SHE NEVER ACTUALLY INTERACTS WITH HER. #WHATEVER. #milgram #kotoko yuzuriha #mahiru shiina #0610 #this gets maintagged i guess. idk. i want people to see my 0610 visions even tho this post is also full of frustration

[linabirb]

this may sound rude or weird but there is no combination worse in this world than a neurodivergent person who is sensitive to sounds (me) and a neurodivergent person who never shuts up even if they were told so multiple times (my classmate who is telling us a story about a guy falling from an escalator even though we're in the middle of an exam)

#“haha that's just me being autistic <3” i am sorry and i feel like shit for saying this but you're being insensitive #we literally told her multiple times that we don't need her talking about things that can actually be triggering especially during an exam #but she doesn't care!! she just goes “but i have so much to say :(” #oh also she's the same girl who i've tried to rp with and didn't care about what i wanted to do with my character #she's also openly transphobic and says that trans people's existence “hurts her” #again. am i being a bitch or is this girl genuinely insane. #[ 💚 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐬 ]

[hecksupremechips]

Minor thing that really irks me is when people treat the femc route in p3 portable as like the lesser story or like it’s a fanfic where nothing that happens in it is the “true” canon like. Bitch. The femc and everything that happens in her version of the story is just as canon as the male protagonist and everything that happens in his story. And there’s literally been so many fucking versions of p3 at this point like the base game, fes, portable, the movies, stage plays, reload, as well as spinoffs and manga and they all do things differently. I don’t see anyone acting like the base game is more canon than, say, reload so why do they do this with portable? Why can’t the (infinitely superior) version with the female protagonist just be respected for five fucking minutes goddamn

#persona #persona 3 #kotone shiomi #its the misogyny yay #but god i am so tired of her game being treated as not actually canon like it literally is #theres multiple canons dipshit there is no true version of this game #and also people saying she doesnt fit the theme or some shit like. she literally does??? and honestly she does it better #like you can really feel the love she brings to the group and how she gives everything life and helps everyone #but also just how it all comes with pain she smiles and befriends everyone but shes always been so deeply alone and she doesnt want anyone #to feel the pain shes felt and so she carries all those burdens on her own and when everyone goes to reach out for her #its too late far too late shed sacrifice herself over and over for these people and theyll never once see her cry #she also you know. actually has good social links and gets to know everyone not just people she wants fuck #so you get to see just infinitely better versions of every character with her she really does bring out the best in them #and another thing in particular with the disrespect of her story is the way shinji living is treated again just like #some kinda fanfic au by someone who didnt wanna cope with their blorbo dying like ughh #shinji surviving is just as canon as him dying there is an entire canon where he gets a happy ending and it is once again #much better than versions where he dies like ive. exhausted myself with explaining it but its just better #so yeah basically out of spite i like acting like kotones story is actually the one true canon #and when people mention stuff that isnt in her story im like ‘huh? what? that didnt happen’ #cuz whos gonna stop me

[end-orfino]

ahhhhhh i remember why i dont read comics & books and watch movies as much as I should. Because they make me lose it

#i get suddenly hit with a tsunami of inspiration and an urgency to Make Something #but the urgency isn't about the process of making it's about I Have Stories To Present Too. I have to See Them Realized. #and that hit of urgency is obviously far too short lived to make anything. esp since it comes in a set with a feeling of 'wow this- #-thing was so great' that transforms into intensified perfectionism of No No What Im Doing Here Isnt Good. What Is This. Disgrace- #-to my idea AND to what inspired it AND to my self proclaimed status as an amateur storyteller #which turns into artblock. so like low chances that ill even get a singular good drawing made during this #and the multiple comic or script or whatever ideas that appear in my head during this are out of the question entirely #oh and all of this appears next to the normal feelings caused by a good story like attachment to the characters and having to process it- #-for a while and if its very good then even sometimes rarely i get the need to make fanart #so all of this combined just leads to me not being able to do anything for a while and feeling awful about it. #fun./sar #i wish i was a normal artist people here are so resilient and do stuff even though they dont want to or they DO want to #because idk they enjoy being pissed bcs of a thing not turning out right and they dont mind how tedious it can get- #-and they enjoy sacrificing hours&days&months of their lives without a guarantee that anyone will appreciate it accordingly and itll pay of #its probably the resilience though #im weak like a dried twig both mentally and physically #this sounds like i never enjoyed drawing&writing ever. and to clarify thats far from true. i frequently enjoy it #just never frequently enough and consistently enough to actually make something more 'worthwhile' or linear #it's like a wind that comes & goes that i have no control over. #i try to keep telling myself that in the past i struggled to make anything 'bigger'....& know i even made animatic shitposts #this sounds so stupid god. an animatic shitpost being an achievement. #its not an art skill achievement its a fighting tooth and nail with my own self to actually finish it because its a struggle almost every- #-time achievement #what im saying is im trying to tell myself that i already improved. im doing more than i could have done in the past. #even if the process is so slow and i dont know when ill advance again #if ill advance again. i just gotta believe i guess? thank u parappa

[starrysharks]

i usually just post about reassassination and ultimate excalibur alongside less developed stories/universes but brother i have a LOT of stuff that i either hardly talk about or never talk about at all publicly ,,, mostly because they don't have any character designs done yet 💀

#like let me dump a few of the ideas that will probably never actually become real here: #1. story about two vampire hunter girls and one goes missing and the other has to go find her and fights various vampires along the way #(i actually did finish a few designs for this but scrapped it and now a lot of the plot aspects are in reassassination #such as a coven of 7 vampires based on the deadly sins - now the 7 assassins of the clear crucifix organisation in RAA) #2. darkstalkers-ish fighting game that i was really convinced i could make once i learned how to code - #- where the guardians of love and heartbreak fight to prove which love is real #there were multiple characters planned - puppy love which was like a cute girl with a big ass scary fuckin hellhound #sweetheart love who was a chocolate themed magical girl (her gimmick being that she could transform and her fighting style would change) #fake love who was like a scam love doctor old lady called dr.diva #pure lust who was a super tall vampire guy etc etc the list goes on #i kinda want to go through with that one. one problem! i cannot code fighting games #and the one that was pretty well developed - metallic miracle which had a pretty complicated story #basically the world is being attacked by alien creatures that can only be killed by children (never decided why tho) #so the fucked up government takes a bunch of 5-8 year olds and put them into comas and then turns them into cyborgs #to go on suicide missions to kill these aliens. mira's mother is the scientist who created the technology that can send them into comas #and keep their bodies moving n shit and she takes mira onto a different planet to try and save her but theyre found after a while #mira's mother is killed and mira is drafted in the kids v aliens war BUT she is immune to the coma technology #she fights fully aware of what is going on for around a year? and eventually the aliens are driven out and mira is super traumatised #and is one of the only survivors of this 'greater good project' - so they put her in a coma that actually works this time #and send her in a space capsule for years to give her some peace (didnt develop why shes in the space capsule) #anyway 50 years later mira is woken up and taken back to her home planet to help these other guys against smaller-scale threats #and the whole thing is about mira recovering from what happened to her learning to trust others and stuff #looking back the story is kinda edgy n doesnt really make sense and stuff but i think it could be interesting idk #is this oc rambling if its only in the tags? #whatever #oc rambling

[captainofthetidesbreath]

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#Seeing a weirdass take about Chetney not being a team player in a way reminiscent of like classic toxic d&d bros is so weird #It does acknowledge that Travis himself is a generous player but Chetney is selfish and not working with the team #And it's so weird to me because a) Chetney isn't any less cooperative than any other member of the team #(he's actually MORE cooperative than Nott and Caleb were for a very long time) #And b) I feel like it ignores Chetney is actually rather responsive and aware of the others and is eager to work with them when required #Refusing to tell the others he had the money but pays for most of their shit #and going off to scout or capitalize on opportunity but communicating poorly about it #and going off on his own to run dicey personal errands he doesn't want the others entangled in #those aren't like at all similar to things that are selfish or similar to classic toxic d&d table behaviors #So I'm very ????? about the take Chetney isn't a team player in ways reminiscent of specific d&d toxicity (even as Travis remains generous) #Chetney is cagey and defensive but he almost DESPERATELY wants to be part of the group as much as he is wary of them #It's honestly insane imo and overlooks the entire context of Chet and willfully ignores when he is generous; thoughtful; and cooperative #Like Chetney isn't hiding the money for himself because he spends a lot of it for the party. He goes off on his own for the party's uses. #He hasn't done anything multiple other characters haven't done so ??? #Why is this take trying to act like Chetney is more selfish or self-centered or toxic or less of a team player than anyone else #Idk idk I might revisit this in more whisper tags when I'm not typing on mobile from bed and discussed this with The Board (friends in DMs) #Critical Role things #CR spoilers #also maybe I think that characters are allowed to be selfish

[tbcanary]

yet again i say everyone who argues about what is and is not in character for jason needs to stop fighting each other and unite against our common enemy, scott fucking lobdell

#i'm looking back through outlaws for an edit #and like i have such. feelings. i have so many feelings. #this is the first comic i read! and there are parts of it i still genuinely enjoy and which tug at my emotions in certain ways! #but going back to it now after having read other things is so. like. #what the fuCK #WHAT THE FUCK !!! #it's funny to me. it's honestly hysterical. like i'm not mad about it to be clear i've been cackling over it for an hour #i think it's so. like. why did they do this. why did they give jason evil-sensing blades and a background with a magical monk society #why did they do roy so dirty. why did they do KORI so dirty. #i love the three of them as a relationship and a dynamic but so much of this comic is absolute nonsense kjvnxkbjngk #anyway. ANYWAY. #i will die on the hill of like. the reason why everyone has such warped views of jason is because his rewrites have completely changed him #like every single aspect of him #multiple times #and so it's really hard actually to get a grip on who he is! because like. do you want the bloodthirsty one who kept trying to kill tim. #or do you want the somewhat relatable (weakly written) young lost man looking for love and family wherever he can get it #or do you do what i do and treat them as two separate characters in two separate boxes in your mind closet #so that you don't have to consider the fact that everything about him is absolute jumbled fucking nonsense #this also goes for j/a/y/r/o/y. a ship i absolutely adore and love. #it's very like. ok which version of jason tho. which version of roy. it had better not be outlaws roy i will gut you-- #i have so many feelings about this little trio. this post is brought to you by jason saying kori would never have to know life without him. #THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE PLATONIC. ALLEGEDLY. NORMAL BESTIE MOMENTS. #ugh. ugh ugh guhhhhgiuuhbngjkn ugh. #don't cancel me for enjoying some parts of outlaws ok. i have a complicated relationship it's not uncritical it's just that i love them. #text.tb

[sonknuxadow]

why does sonic prime talk like everyone has lived in green hill zone this whole time.. sure sonic is seen there a lot, but hes never been stated to LIVE there.. neither have any of the characters that were seen there in the show as far as i know. like i can believe tails having a workshop set up in green hill but i Cant believe knuckles and big who are already established to live in other places live in green hill. and people keep saying sonic prime is supposed to be canon to the games and thats literally the only reason this is bugging me if sonic prime is really supposed to be set in the game universe why would they do this. i know restricting it to green hill is probably to save time and money but surely they could have come up with other excuses for the characters being in green hill a lot that arent just. saying everybody lives there when they dont

#and i KNOWW that sonic canon in general is messy but i refuse to believe that knuckles just. Doesnt live on angel island #and that characters who have never even been seen in green hill before live there #i love sonic prime btw. i do not hate sonic prime. this detail just bugs me #anyway we already know big lives in mystic ruins and knuckles lives on angel island so what are they doing here #and im pretty sure amy was said to live in station square at one point but idk if she still does #i think tails has been shown to have a few different houses and labs in different locations #which is why i can easily accept him having a workshop in green hill #idk if anything has ever been said on where sonic lives but i personally think he doesnt really have a set home he just kinda #goes wherever he wants. naps under trees n shit. and if he ever actually needs a roof over his head for the night #or just wants company then he crashes and his friends places #i think eggman also doesnt have a set home and just has multiple bases scattered across different locations #because i imagine being in the same place all the time would be dangerous for somebody who does the stuff he does #and this is entirely just me making stuff up but i think team dark share a shitty apartment in the big city somewhere

[devilishdelights]

what do u MEAN I have to practice drawing backgrounds….

#AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH #I have NO creativity when it comes to backgrounds. the fuck do I draw!!!! #but I think that’s what’s upsetting me about my art currently #it’s not like. all put together #and backgrounds bring an entire piece together!!! #and I just need to practice anatomy some more tooooo ughhhhhhh. + change my style a bit #I’m working on an AF attack w/ multiple characters and 😓😓😓 #I wanna finish ittttttttt. but I wanna be better at ART first and backgrounds. but alas #I want to start taking more time on my art too but I’m so impatient lol <\3 #vent #kinda. idk I’m always venting about the same shit here #I need to YouTube. but I’m soooooooooo impatient again I’ll watch like five minutes and go ok I’m good I’ll figure this shit out myself #I need to like psych myself into relaxing n being chill n reminding myself I got time #😞😞😞😞😞😔😔😔😔😔😔😰😰😰😢😭😭😭😭😭 #I’m being a big baby huuuwahhhhhhhhhhhh 😣😣😣😖 #I have a piece I like with a decent background I’m gonna actually draw soon and not just have the sketch #and I’m gonna FORCE myself to take my TIME. and do DETAILS and shit. terrifying but I can do it #‘a decent background’ it’s just a square background but BUT. with like. uhhh patterns #and it all goes together and it’s nice so I like it!!!! #actual backgrounds tho……. oof! #N MY IMPATIENCE IS NOT TIKTOK BRAIN OR WHATEVER PPL R SAYING THESE DAYS. I GOT ADHD I CANT FOCUS ON SHIT WITHOUT HAVING 5 OTHER THINGS #HAPPENINF AT THE SAME TIME #but to learn I gotta like. do one thing???? the entire time? and that ONLY??? 😧

[multi-lefaiye]

Magic Apocalyptica Worldbuilding Presentation

WAHOO it’s here!!!! Okay so uh I ended up making an entire presentation just for the worldbuilding for yet another one of my fantasy settings, which I’ve been calling Magic Apocalyptica because there’s no single story for this, at least not yet. There ARE a bunch of disconnected characters, but no single plot.

As a refresher, the premise for this universe is that the apocalypse happened, but it awoke several gods and also magic <3

As a fair warning, there are 35 slides in this bad boy, so uhhhh I’m sorry it’s so long <3

Taglist (there is no pressure to respond to this right away or at all even if you are tagged! Also if you want to be removed or added please let me know): @albatris​ @chaotic-queer-disaster​ @jezifster​ @skitzo-kero​ @dr-runs-with-scissors​ @emotionalsupportpuma​ 

CW: Talk of fictional religions and also references to climate change and the apocalypse in general.

#undescribed images cw #magic apocalyptica #multi makes text posts #worldbuilding #it's probably obvious what parts of worldbuilding are my favorite lmao #also the last slide has a gif in the actual presentation but i didn't feel like putting the gif in the post </3 so you get a screenshot #anyway while working on this i got ideas for Multiple new characters #we'll see where that goes ig #anyway if y'all have any questions please feel free to ask #i love talking about this 'verse it brings me so much joy

[enevera]

for the character opinion bingo: Gojo Satoru? :)

thank you!!!! <333 lolol this one got me a bingo and i didnt even realize it til i was done haha

i really wish there was a square on here for “would like them to cry” or smthing bc i think gojo should cry. i mean, dude walks around all emotionally repressed like that and im NOT supposed to want him to be a blubbering mess for a bit? how unfair. but yeah dude’s a walking nightmare, spent a lot of time while watching the anime laughing at his antics and then saying out loud to no one that hes super annoying. hes funny tho and i like that the anime apparently blew like a ridiculous amount of their budget on animating his eyes or something, at least from what ive heard lol. also yeah i would marry him, hes rich, i want money (dont we all?), i think it works out. esp since i can be bribed, if for a very high price. i hate drawing him tho he sucks >:/

#gojo ticks all my you like this character boxes its very unfortunate #also the eyesight blindfold bs reminds me of my own issues with visual snow syndrome and migraines enough that i have like a half writtent #vent fic where i just torture him w my own problems lolol #but yeah hes stupid and powerful and pathetic and i like that in a man in the most ace lesbian way possible <3 #friend tag #i also really like his character design but hes not my fav in jjk that honor goes to mahito and sukuna tho i do wish mahito had like #multiple skin tones sewn together i think that wouldve been really and WOW this is so off topic lol sorry #oh and kenjakus design is really fuckin good like the villain designs in this series are consistently really good and i honestly think #its bc they dont have to conform to some level of reality like the human cast does #edit: i remembered maki and choso just now actually its not just villains who have cool designs in this manga pls forgive me jjk i am sorry

[slugandthorn]

pain and agony of having so much to learn to make more things but I need a job/further schooling to learn but I have to have made the things first

#.txt #Painful cycle unable to find value in my art but I already gave up and I'm already trying again some one needs to make this easier #And I think my life would be simpler if I just focused on drawing over 3D and tech anim but the time it would take #To function at a professional level as some sort of concept artist. #Also fine artist and concept artist community is well. Unfortunately unbearable. #Lacking so much animation experience in 2D and 3D I'm having trouble focusing on it to move forward. #The most experience I have is in 3D character art at this point probably but inability to finish things which also plagues #Every other concentration. As well. #I am sitting alone in the room trying to find something of value to express and it will never reach anyone. Existential dread like. #I think it's the searching for storytelling skills limiting me because I do not have the competitive nature #To be that into raw technical skills. Which is killing my ability to make a portfolio. #If I had more time to just keep on keeping on at my part time job I think I would just make the graphic novel I want to make. #To have something expressed and in the world. And then I could actually focus on technical things. #But this thinking has just become a roadblock it is not feasible but I do have several paths planned I just have to. #Recognize what is useful to me. But not just giving up anytime I have a new idea. #My interest goes between implementing animation within a greater scene and also the technical minutia I think is whats killing me. #Making multiple portfolios at once. Which isn't so bad bc ideally I'd be doing generalist work. But generalist means more time limitations. #My brain is convinced it can just work past time as a factor. Which is how we reach the problem I am having now (need money). #I think something I need to recognize is I've always thought my perspective and understanding of stories held some value. #But that only stands from my own perspective and it does not have value outside of that. #Even if it does reach other people it does not retain interest. And while it benefits me internally. I'm not making a career of it. #Which is fine. #I think the things I valued from story can still be found in technical skills. And anyone can develop a technical skill with some time. #If I keep my focus. #I think that's something close to a resolution I've been looking for. Been needing some profound change in my life and I think the desire #And constant failure of communication has been what's preventing me from moving forward. #I want to go out and do things. That is possible. Focus on skill and ability. Maybe the other stuff will come later. #Digesting this and hopefully not spending my days sleeping anymore.

[demilypyro]

So I've seen a few too many people on twitter talking about The Kiss Scene from the new Scott Pilgrim anime. People saying it's fetishistic and indulgent, people calling it male gazey, etc. And while the kiss itself is certainly a bit exaggerated, I felt like writing a bit about why I disagree, and why context is important, like it always is. But it basically turned into an extended analysis on the metatextual treatment of Roxie Richter. So bear with me. It's a long post.

What really matters about this scene is not the kiss itself, but what precedes it. Not even just the fight scene just before it, but what precedes the whole anime series, really. And that's the Scott Pilgrim comic book, and the live action movie. Because in both, Roxie is a punchline.

She's a joke. Her character starts and ends with "one of the exes is actually a girl, I bet you didn't expect that." Jokes are made about Ramona's latent bisexuality, the movie especially treating it as funny and absurd, and her validity as a romantic interest is entirely written off by Ramona as being "just a phase." There's a fight scene, she's defeated by a man giving her an orgasm which implicitly calls her sexuality into question (come on), and the movie just moves on. It sucks. It really, really sucks.

The comic fares a little better. It never veers into outright homophobia like the movie does, and while the line about Ramona having gone through a phase remains, Roxie actually gets one over on Scott when Ramona briefly gets back with Roxie. But Roxie is still only barely a character. Like all the other evil exes, she's just a stepping stone towards the male protagonist's development. She barely even gets any screentime before she's defeated by Scott's "power of love." But Roxie stands out, since she's the only villain who is queer, or at least had been confirmed queer at that point (hi Todd). In a series that champions multiple gay men in the supporting cast, the single undeniable lesbian in the story is a villain. She's labeled as evil, made fun of, pushed aside in favor of the men, and then discarded. Her screentime was never about her, or her feelings for Ramona. It was about the straight, male protagonist needing to overcome her. And that was Roxie Richter. An unfortunate victim of the 2010s.

Fast forward to current year, and the new anime series is announced. Everybody sits down to watch the new series expecting another retelling of the same story, and.... hang on, that straight male protagonist I mentioned just died in the first episode. And now it's humanizing the villains from the original story. And there's Roxie, introduced alongside the other evil exes in the second episode, and she's being played entirely straight, without a punchline in sight. No jokes are made about her gender, no questions are made of her validity as one of Ramona's romantic interests. The narrative considers her important. In one episode, she already gets more respect than she did in either of the previous iterations of Scott Pilgrim. And this isn't even her focus episode yet... which happens to be the very next one.

The anime series goes to great lengths to flesh out the original story's villains and to have Ramona reconcile with them. And I don't think it's a coincidence that Roxie gets to go first. While Matthew Patel gets his development in episode 2, Roxie is the first to directly confront Ramona, now our main protagonist. This is notable too because it's the only time the exes are encountered out of order. Roxie is supposed to be number 4, but she's first in line, and later on you realize that she's the only one who's out of sequence. She's the one who sets the precedent for the villains being redeemed. She's the most important character for Ramona to reconcile with.

What follows is probably the most extensive, elaborate 1 on 1 fight scene in the whole show. Roxie fights like a wounded animal, her motions are desperate and pained. Ramona can only barely fight back against her onslaught. Different set-pieces fly by at breakneck speed as Roxie relentlessly lays her feelings at Ramona's feet through her attacks and her distraught shouts. And unlike the comic or the movie, Ramona acknowledges them, and sincerely apologizes. And the two end up just laying there, exhausted, reminiscing about when they were together.

Only after this, after all of this, does the kiss scene happen. Roxie has been vindicated, she has reconciled with the person who hurt her, the narrative has deemed that her anger is justified and has redeemed her character. And she gets her victory lap by making the nearest other hot girl question her heterosexuality, sharing a sloppy kiss with her as the music triumphantly crescendos.

It's... a little self-congratulatory, honestly. But it's good. It's redemption for a character who had been mistreated for over a decade. And she punctuates the moment by being very, very gay where everyone can see it, no men anywhere in sight. Because this is her moment. And then she leaves the plot, on her own accord this time, while humming the hampster dance. What a legend. How could anything be wrong with this.

#scott pilgrim #spto #scott pilgrim takes off #roxie richter #roxanne richter #scott pilgrim spoilers #spto spoilers

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Discussing the upsetting theory for the last episode in tags, because I’ve got nothing intelligent to say about it, it just makes me sad

#I know it would be kind of stupid and a little unfair to all the other work that goes in the show #but I think if Izzy actually really dies in this last episode #I’m not sure if I’ll be able to continue 😭 #(assuming it gets renewed again) #because regardless of how well it’s done #I think a lot of my spark will be gone 😔 #like and tbh I’m normally very fine with character death #but idk something about this would actually break my heart #maybe it’s the fact that I started watching the show and getting attached to this character #when I was truly not doing well At All #like I had just failed multiple classes #and wasn’t medicated and was dealing with a lot of shit #and in general #I got the spark back for making art and having unabashed fun again #so this would really be a hit sadly 😔 #idk it’s not that I’m totally emotionally dependent on this outcome #it’s just that it would actually just make me sad #and that’s fine it’s really fine #but idk I’d hate to have this be the ending for a character that brought me so much joy and in many ways a lot of community