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thinking about how ~the arcane~ in s2 which definitely wasn't just a rebrand of the void with targonian stuff thrown in for some reason was dealt with and getting mad about it again because the roots of a poisoned tree short story exists.

some mysterious magic related corruption of unknown origin spontaneously appearing deep underground that's affecting zaun environmentally? check. a powerful magic entity showing up to warn those who discovered it of its danger? check. the narrator recalling icathia, a lost city that became a dead wasteland after being consumed by the void, meaning that could be zaun and piltover's future if they don't come together to address the issue? check. boom, plot point achieved with no multiverse, no time loops, no demonization of hextech sending an anti science message, and no ripoff age of ultron final battle necessary since they could tie it all back to shimmer which was pretty obviously connected to the void.

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Piltover's political system is sort of fascinating - a small group of people are in charge but being a councilor seems like a side job for most of them. Heimerdinger has been there since the founding and there doesn't seem to be a re-election process but he can be voted out on almost a whim. Mel isn't from Piltover and Jayce is voted in despite his protest (and his total lack of knowledge of politics).

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Hello :)

Ok so this is kind of a silly question but can I ask what’s the hatred between minako and the police?like what initiated it ?

Canonically? I got no clue, prob something that happened within sailor v, I never read it.

Now if you ask me, it's cause she has always hated authority, being an unruly kid, the cops are the last thing you wanna see with a smile on your face. Though it's also due to the injustice that goes on between the police and the senshi.

Going very headcanon, I really like to explore the relationship between the senshi and the regular people around them and how the events of the story influence the public opinion. I won't go too into it, but after a pretty tragic happening in Tokyo, public relations have been at a all time low for them, to the point where they even have to act in secret and move in groups, to avoid targeted attacks. Now this attacks aren't by policemen directly, but the police is doing nothing for them.

I just think Mina is over it, pouring so much sweat, blood and tears to protect the people who are now hunting them down and the so called "justice" is only looking to help themselves and no1 else. The situation does eventually de escalate, but that hatred never truly dies down.

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one of you recent asks made me wonder, could you do a ranking for the sailors? Like strongest to weakest, I'm soo curios.. :>

Mmhh, well I'm guessing you're only referring to the senshi of the solar system. In that case it goes.

Pluto>Moon>Venus>Saturn>Neptune>Jupiter>Uranus>Mars>Mercury

If you wanna include Galaxia in there, she'd be between Pluto and Moon.

This isn't based on 100% pure raw power, but combative skills as well. Jupiter is more powerful than Venus, but Venus is a better fighter. Also Venus is prob the best fighter among them, yet there's not much she can realistically do vs the reality breaking powers of the silver crystal and a person who can literally stop time (I said it, my Pluto is Very different from canon Pluto).

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She had chosen a girl over the world, and now this girl was breathing and safe while the world was… not so much. It wasn’t truly important if she never understood, Michiru reminded to herself. She didn’t expect her to understand. She didn’t expect anything at all, she assigned herself with a duty and accomplished it. Everything was done as it should have been, she repeated, watching the girl that was worth the whole world walking away.

Her communicator buzzed, bringing a message telling she wasn’t a senshi anymore. Michiru didn’t bother to look. She already knew it.

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Hi :) How are you? (This is going to be a lengthy ask lol)

You mentioned in one of your posts that you would like to see the relationship between the senshi and the normal everyday people and perhaps the humans turning against the Senshi.

What do you think about the enemy working with the human government to take down the Senshi to fulfill their goal of forming their empire or whatever and what your headcanon might predict of how it's all going to go down?

I wish the SM franchise would explore more with the outsiders perspective and relationship between the senshi's.

Hi! Sorry you've prob waited a while for this one, my bad.

But yeah, I've mentioned before that the public has an active and rocky relationship with the senshi.

It's a very mixed bag! But overall, to grossly generalize, most younger people are in favor of them and idolize them, while older people and parents tend to scrutinize and antagonise them.

They are unknown beings, who just pop in out of nowhere and at best cause property damage and at worst, well cause some casualties (in my hc, sometimes they fail and people die, it's unfortunate, but it's a reality they have to live with).

Say you're a parent your child turned into an otherworldly creature, a group of 'defenders' shows up and leads you away while promising you they'll try their best to save your child. Next thing you know, one of them walks to you with simply a bag of dust in their hands and a devastated expression, but no words spoken, and they leave.

This is what I see a few people experienced, parents, friends, siblings.. they can't really see past their own grief to understand that these saviors aren't just perfect immortal beings who can just decided who gets to live and who doesn't. They're human, like them, but not quite.

On the other hand, I see people adoring and respecting them, on the more superficial side cause they are superheroes and why wouldn't you idolize a person with super powers, furthermore on the more emotional side, people have been saved or have had other people saved by them. They're grateful and compassionate.

I can totally understand both sides, at the end of the day, people are scared of the unknown, you can't totally blame them for not trusting the senshi, no matter how many justice speeches they deliver.

Going more into the lore aspect, I don't really see the government working with the enemy, it's a neat idea, but I wouldn't really fit in my narrative.

I was thinking more along the lines of a subtle influence by the enemy. Pushing the public to hate the senshi more and more, to the point that they can't even show up by themselves without risking getting attacked by mobs for people.

After a particular deadly explosion, the public perception of them has hit an all time low, and the new enemy strives to dig that even deeper and deeper.

It starts with news articles after rumors and interviews, all these factors fueling a never-ending machine of paranoia. The senshi show up on missions like they always do, all of a sudden, stones get tossed, along with insults and threats. It gets so bad that they can't even transform without informing the others, they can't travel alone, they are just in a form of hiding, powerless to help people without putting themselves in massive danger.

Small note, but I think this situation in particular is very compelling. Seeing how differently the girls take on the issue of not being able to help the public cause the public does not want to be helped. Especially for Mina, she basically has to make the very hard decision of prioritizing the safety of her girls over the safety of innocent people and this could cause a lot of super interesting clashes within the group.

Going even further, it gets worse and now random girls start getting attacked and so forth. You kind of see what I'm getting at. This is the plot of one fo the seasons in my narrative.

It's not really government vs senshi, but the actual public is against them. I think it's very interesting, but I'm still very much in writing limbo, so that's how far I'll say about

Thank you for the ask! Hopefully this is the answer u were looking for.

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There's something deeply tragic and disturbing about the Johnny/Crystal/Pietro love triangle. Johnny and Crystal are the "kids" of their teams. They're more innocent and tend to be spoiled and protected by their friends. When they're together, they seem to love projected ideals more than each other. Johnny wants a pretty girl who has no trouble with his heroics, and Crystal was a guy who shows her the outside world. Conversely, Pietro matured quickly. (1/2)

Nobody protected Pietro, he was a protector. Nor did anyone reach to comfort him and give him space to show his vulnerability. When Pietro was thrown into the equation, he became protector and emotional caretaker for Crystal. Crystal became a source of peace and comfort he had never known before. Johnny and Crystal had fun, but their love wasn't as deep and natural like Reed and Sue or Ben and Alicia. Pietro and Crystal, though, complimented each other. (2/3) But of course, Crystal, give or take mind control from Maximus, ruined what she and Pietro had. It didn't help that Pietro was also mind controlled into mistreating her. Crystal will always crave that extra bit of fun and irresponsibility, even if it means betraying people who love her and might be waiting for her. She's kind and idealistic (at least intended to be), but she doesn't have her priorities straight. (3/4) And honestly, the biggest issue here is that writers don't know where to take Johnny and Crystal beyond being the token team kids. In-universe, neither of them face any pressure to mature and take responsibility either. Reed and Sue allow Johnny to drop out of school to pursue full-time celebrity, and the Inhuman Royals don't mind anything Crystal does as long as she does her Royal duties. Johnny laughs things off, Crystal plays helpless, lonely victim. (4/5) Opposite of Spidey's issues, writers keep trying to shove Johnny and Crystal together, even when they've proven they haven't worked and will not work out just because both of them are too naive, too prone to wishful thinking, and too in need of quick self-gratification. Pietro is the one who truly gets screwed over, because he came in looking for commitment and a place to belong, and he got sacrificed for Johnny and Crystal's drama. (5/5)

I don't think the writers should take Johnny/Crystal anywhere, at this point it just doesn't work imo. They were teen crushes at one point but I don't think there is really anything there to build upon. I just wanted to point out that Johnny does go to college so he did finish high school, but I think Johnny like many comic characters is stuck on a loop because marvel is too afraid of making long term changes to older characters. Even Spider-Man is stuck on a loop where he isn't allowed to progress any further.

I do think that Pietro fell in love with Crystal because she was kind to him but also because she took care of him when he was alone which would cause him to fall even harder in love with her, but I disagree that they were compatible, they were also too young and their personalities/backgrounds too unrelatable to be married. Pietro always wants to set down roots vs Crystal trying to break free from her royal trappings.

Pietro was 100% thrown in to break up Johnny/Crystal permanently so that the writers could be free to go back to the loveable bachelor Johnny who just can't catch a break with love. So yeah I do agree, it's tragic how Pietro was treated and his own story was shifted so that it could be a part of the Johnny/Crystal drama but I can't complain too much because without Pietro/Crystal then we wouldn't have Luna and I really love that Pietro is a father and has a daughter even though Marvel forgets her all the time.

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What makes Crystal such an interesting character is that she is the physical embodiment of the most insufferable kind of privilege in a viciously misogynistic society.

She’s the princess of a very racist and classist kingdom and benefits from these things, but she has little to no agency among her family and peers with the most extreme example being the moment she’s sold off as a paramour to a dictator (by her own sister!) Her lack of agency and how she finds ways of keeping her privilege in this system directly correlates to her promiscuity.

Crystal eventually earning the title of the ‘people’s princess’ is honestly so fitting. ‘People’s princess’ is in of itself an oxymoron if you think about it for more than two seconds, which is the perfect summation of her character. I do think her desire to help people and her love for her husband came from a genuine place, she’s a rebellious spirit who never looked down on someone for their status, but she does all these things from her position of power. She wants to help the subjects of her kingdom but not enough to rebuke the privilege she gets from their oppression. She wants an exotic husband for whom she rebels against her family’s prejudice and traditions to marry him but won’t ever stand in solidarity with him when he actually needs it.

I’ve said it before but Pietro/crystal are basically the less warped and twisted version of Heathcliff/Catherine from Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. The novel is a gothic dark romance that examines race, gender and class as the foundation to the destructive whirlwind of Heathcliff and Cathy’s romance. The dichotomy of oppression and privilege Cathrine has as a high society white woman and the racism Heathcliff receives as a Romani boy are examined through the abuse they endure. If you’ve read the novel you’ll notice about a million parallels but there’s one moment in particular that always stands out to me.

People often bring up the instance when the two are trying to reconcile after Crystal’s affair and there’s still some tension between them, in this moment Crystal tells Pietro that if he ever tries to retaliate by having an affair of his own she will have her people imprison/ exile him.

Compare that to a moment in Bronte’s novel where a young Heathcliff and Cathy have a childish argument and in a moment of frustration Catherine yells at him, prompting one of the housekeepers to flog him. In their defence I don’t believe Crystal or Cathrine were trying to be malicious, in fact they come off as very childish and bratty. The problem is that when Crystal threatens Pietro like this she actually has the power to do that. This is what defines the relationship between the two. I feel like their relationship problems wouldn’t have been nearly as dramatic and messy if it wasn’t for this enormous power imbalance between them, it’s the direct source of discord in their marriage.

Considering the fact that multiple members of her family have tried to bring back slavery, I don’t think it’s fair to say she’s the worst of them, in fact Crystal has arguably done the most good out of her family. But perhaps what makes her so uniquely frustrating is what a massive hypocrite she is. How well this is handled varies on the writer.

Crystal is a Catherine Earnshaw, a Shiv Roy, a (significantly less evil) Cersei Lannister. Heck she has more in common with Emma Frost than most mutants do! I have love for all of these characters and find them very compelling but to me the moral failings of their hypocrisy, their complicated access to privilege and the lengths they’ll go to keep it is the core to their characters. I genuinely enjoy Crystal and think she is sympathetic and has redeeming qualities but she’ll never be a hero to me, her heroism, activism and ally-ship exists only in the comfort of her own margins. But that’s what makes her an entertaining character.

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pietro, family and blame.

→ the double image, anne sexton / fantastic four v1. #305 / quicksilver #4 / my dark vanessa, kate elizabeth russell / uncanny avengers v3. #29 / holy wild, gwen benaway / famous blue raincoat, leonard cohen / scarlet witch & quicksilver #4 / ?

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Pietro is a girl dad to the fullest. He will sit and do makeup and dress up to the fully extent and go out flaunting the makeup and outfit with full confidence. He will post it on social media, he will go out and fight with a face full of make up and glam that Luna put on him.

He would spoil Luna, but parent Luna to not be a spoiled or entitled child.

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Luna: Daddy? What’s gay?

Pietro who has been waiting for this moment his entire life: Well, you know how how your grandpa and Charles are really close-

:Choking sounds in the background:

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@stinkrat-aleks Peter being a better dad than Erik to heal his child inner trauma

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I love messy magnet family as much as the next person. I find this dysfunctional dynamic extremely layered and interesting from the perspective of a reader. However, the amount of fics in the main continuity which victim blame or brush over Pietro, Wanda and Lorna's abuse. Which have Pietro or the girls apologise and not Magneto (who actually murdered his son and has abandoned to die in Wanda's case, neglected in Lorna's case or physically, mentally, emotionally and even sexually abused all his children to varying degrees) or have a member of Pietro's own family critising him for not opening up and letting him have a father are surprising. I get that people can write whatever they want but it still makes me uncomfortable to read the victim blaming. The sad thing is I feel this has spilled over to comics to a degree by lazy writers (though we can blame Marvel for that an not fans).

Look fanfiction is fanfiction and everyone is entitled to write and enjoy what they want. However, the preference in media to defend abusers and blame the victims - something we see all to often in real life is something that makes me uncomfortable. I feel we can always be critical of the media we consume and acknowledge the complexity of a particular piece of art without erasing the actions of the abuser (doesn't matter how charismatic or fan the character is) Anyways I just wanted to vent haha.

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I know that he's not as nuanced in his earlier appearances, but I love how Jack Kirby draws Magneto. He's looks menacing yet he has this completely and utterly paranoid air to him. Like this isn't your normal magnificent megalomaniac like Doom, the force that is Galactus, or even the grotesque monster that is the Red Skull... this is a man ruled by anger and fear above all.

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that’s what kills me the most is that erik’s anger and rage and actions are just a byproduct of his trauma and pain. and he was meant to have peace and love and tenderness, but life was so cruel and he just got handed the worst fucking hand. and he turned into something he never thought he’d become but thought he had to be that person because why would life give him such misery if it wasn’t to shape him into a monster?