#Do I still think she is hot? Yes

[buggysuperior88]

I have some opinions on Boa Hancock and I want to talk about them. Im currently in the middle of watching one piece and I’m at ‘the island of women’ arc of the series. And I, sadly, have seen spoilers for the arc before I even began watching it. So I know of Boa and her sisters past… …and it is fucked up as SHIT…. BUT as I’m watching this arc, I can’t help but dislike Boa.

Im only on episode 414 and the arc finishes on episode 421. So my critiques are only of what I’ve observed since I have started the arc. So what I say may be something EVERYONE has observed and/or has said about this arc. But before I state my opinions, I wanna state the things I KNOW about Boa from what I’ve observed in this arc.

Boa Hancock (if I spelled it correctly) is the captain of an all-woman pirate crew, the kuja pirates. She is known as the Pirate Empress and/or the Snake Princess. She is the princess and ruler of Amazon Lily, an island that is fully inhabited by women. She is also a warlord of the sea, and has a devil fruit that allows her to turn anyone into stone. She was, previous to being a pirate, a former slave who was captured by slave traders when she young along with her sisters. She and her sisters were abused, most likely sexually, for a long time. In this time she grew to resent and hate MEN.

(I don’t know how she escaped because I haven’t gotten to that part of the story yet, but I assume someone was able to break in and free her and her sisters along with many other slaves as well).

She has a mark on her back that she has to constantly cover bc it gives away that she was a former slave. So she protects her back at all cost, and since she became ruler, she since banned men from EVER stepping foot on Amazon Lily (but I could be wrong and men could have already been BANNED but she just implemented it more so after she began ruling). Amazon Lily is located in the calm belt, where sea kings are known to breed. And the sea kings scare off pirates, marines, traders and anyone else that she doesn’t want near her island. So she and all the women she rules over are protected by the sea kings. But she still has to scare off someone people she doesn’t want in her waters. Such as marines and other known warlord's. In the episode where Boa confronts the marines for being near her island, in short, she turns all the marines into stone and then leaves for her island. But in this episode, her crew members are intimidated by her and try to avoid making her mad. She kicks one of the crew members pet kitten(?) and the crew member apologizes and takes the angry kitten away. (From this scene on, I started to not like her). Then she heads home to her island, and to fats forward to where luffy is captured and put into the arena, she turns the women who supposedly ‘helped’ luffy into the island. (Technically they did but they didn’t know he was a man) Boa precedes to turn them into stone and gets luffy mad by tossing them around and threatening to smash them (which would kill them.) I’ve gotten this far into the arc so FAR, so I can’t state anymore than I have only observed and watched.

Now that I’ve stated what I KNOW about Boa. I can talk about my opinions on her character. Boa, to put it simply, is NOT a nice person. To men or her people, it doesn’t matter. She treats them both like complete and utter shit.

Yes. She is beautiful. Yes. She is the most gorgeous woman I’ve EVER seen in one piece. Yes. She is also VERY powerful. And Yes. She also has had a terrible and horrific past that can only be described as INHUMANE…

…BUT…

That still doesn’t, and I mean this when I say this, ever give her the right to treat whoever she wants as trash and inferior to her. From what I’ve seen, she has treated her people like trash. It didn’t even matter if they were doing something nice for her, she would still treat them horribly. I understand the hatred for men because she was treated horribly and didn’t deserve the shit she went through. BUT that doesn’t give her the excuse to treat the women of her island, who all but worship the ground she walks on, to be treated badly. I understand the fear that if men were infiltrate her island, everyone would and/or could possibly end up being in danger, especially her and her sisters. Boa, to put it simply, has some unresolved trauma (which is pretty obvious) that stems from her being a slave and how men have treated her in the past. From the way she acts as if she is inferior to every being in existence, is false confidence to put it simply. Maybe a coping mechanism to protect herself from being hurt by others. But idk, so I could be wrong.

But back to my point, that whole ‘treating everyone like shot’ does NOT give her the right to act like an immature, spoiled toddler/adult to her own people. Also from what I’ve seen how her people treat her, I’m guessing that they know about her past and sympathize with how she was treated and basically give her whatever she wants because she was a victim, and deserves whatever she wants. And if I was one of the women, I would probably do what they are doing and justify her actions and excuse them to her having a terrible past. And bc of her past, she has a right to treat everyone and anyone who she seems inferior like shit.

Now that I’ve stated my opinion, I wanna clarify that I think her character is amazing in terms of power and strength. She is, in all honesty, a very powerful women. The fact she was able to become the ruler of her island after the fact she went through some very traumatic shit, and was able to technically recover and become a warlord to protect her people. The fact that she wanted to protect her people bc she never wanted the woman of her island to ever experience the type of shit she and her sisters were able to endure and survive. This was a very big W on her part and I can respect her for putting her people first. She’s risking everything to protect them, if they even see a glimpse of the scar on her back, she would be captured. So she has to live in constant paranoia that no matter what, she can NOT let her guard down.

Anyways, the point I’m trying to make is that I can respect Boa Hancock as a powerful character and very powerful woman. But I CANNOT for the life of me, excuse her for how she treats her people and others.

I will probably be doing some more character analysis’s later, but I just wanted to talk about her character and rant.

[bixels]

What did/do you like about Pharah?

Uh, gameplay-wise, I really love characters in shooters who rely on three-dimensional movement techs. Chaining together hover and jump to stay in the air for as long as possible and keep momentum is so satisfying, and picking enemies off from the sky made me feel like a bird of prey. I was a good Pharah main.

Story-wise, there unfortunately isn't much to canonically go off because Pharah is so underutilized and neglected. Her personality's pretty boilerplate "heroic hero" (she's literally inspired by Captain America).

But it's the crumbs/bits and pieces that I really latched onto. Pharah's a confirmed lesbian; her short story with Baptiste implies she harbors a crush on Mercy (fucking thank you.). She's biracial Egyptian/First Nations. She has major mommy issues, having grown up both admiring and resenting Ana. She's the bridge between Old Overwatch, inspired by the idealized heroes who surrounded her childhood, and New Overwatch. She's one of the only inter-generational characters in the cast; someone whose experiences span the gap, which is why I seriously believe Pharah would make a great main character.

There isn't much to go off of, though; she's a very uncomplicated character (she's a soldier for a private military corporation, lol.). But that just means she's a blank slate character, so I've seen fanfic writers run wild and create some really interesting takes on her. My favorite interpretation of her's a dense, herbo gym-bro type (a lot of her liens are about work outs, exercising, and playing sports) who's easily excitable under her seemingly self-serious, armored visage. We see how she tends to gloat and hype herself up when she's on a streak too, so Pharah definitely has a competitive and boastful side under her more professional and militant performance.

Now Mercy? Mercy is a real complex character.

[sluckythewizard]

these are A BIT OLD but uhhh here check out these aggio doodles i did forever ago. still VERY happy w my colors :3

[artsycooky13]

top 3 fave bbys in the burrito show (bonus SUPER LONG tags on how i feel bout the characters)

[tenwhiteandalusians]

so no one was going to tell me if i got literally one episode further tenax drops that he’s the one who saved scorpus from his mom’s pimp AND that he’s intimately familiar with scorpus’ dick when he was younger. guys. guys.

[winepresswrath]

Armand's simpering little "and I never have" has taken on new dimensions for me. Technicality king and also I think very in keeping with his whole malign fairy creature deal. You can tell him not to hurt the bae, but you should really specify what "hurt" entails. Is chopping someone's hands off really hurting them? If they have annoyed you very much I mean.

-questions Armand might pose to Lestat that inspire him to leave the country

[stinkrascal]

im so sorry for the person im gonna become in 12 days

[memuntos]

amy dunne “something is horribly wrong with my husband” 🤝🏼 love quinn “my husband is the problem”

[radioroxx]

yargh. complicated characters save me complicated characters…

[deus-ex-mona]

such is the tale of a ✨chronically online hypocrite✨

[mushimatsu]

i knowwww hes a piece of shit but in my heart i want to believe totoko is the one osomatsu would get his shit together for . im insane about them. IN MY HEART they don't realize how much they like each other yet, totoko was surprised w how jealous she was when they were hanging out with kin and i think osomatsu kind of is only thinking about sex so maybe he doesn't realize it either but eventually they do and obvs hes not gonna be perfect right from the get go and he would fuck up over and over again and she would get mad and it would be rocky but he keeps trying bc he LOVES HER !!!!

[i-appear-misssing]

I just had the horrible thought that I need to fall in love because having devastating crushes on beautiful, competent, authoritative women that I desperately want to please is exhausting and I need it to stop

[invinciblerodent]

okay i was teetering on the cusp of the DA:I chasm but i'm back now

apparently.... vampire sex. was what i needed. to step back from the beckoning abyss

gale baby you're so real for this, you were so right that time in the swamp, dick really DO be that good sometimes that it makes you wanna live

[aeide-thea]

breaking news: long walks, while good in their own way, don't quite provide the same 'sluicing the crankymisery out of you and replacing it with endorphins' service as runs :(

[no1ryomafan]

Every time I’m with my irls the subject comes up a lot more cause they’re into more female oriented series but man while it’s given better female rep is just okay-not astounding but not feeding into the more worse tropes of women in anime-I feel really bad for Michiru.

It’s like she’s the more prominent female in getter as she’s probably had the most appearances out of any of the others but I feel she’s never been used to her fullest potential. The manga really felt like Ken didn’t know what to do with her as she just kinda existed and then was killed off, arma just uses her as a plot device, toei I can’t speak fully but I know she’s a support character however given it’s that role and the 70s it only goes so far and in other canons she’s flat out hardly acknowledged. (SVN literally just has her as a cameo)

New is probably her best version but I feel there was some missed opportunities with her as the Hein arc could’ve shown more what was going on in the present and with her but it didn’t have enough time for that, and even if she does have dynamics with the boys hers and Ryomas are very undeveloped as they hardly interacted which is both a shock and a shame as they seemed to be fun in the one ep-ep 2-where they really talked.

And also as much as I like News approach to her characterization it is a shame we hardly ever seen the more traditional version of Michiru be fleshed out, when even if “uwu nice girl” is more basic it can still work and be a good character. Like it made me more sad watching Android Kikaider and seeing Mitsuko who’s basically the same trope as Michiru-down to even LOOKING like her-being a older sister with a dead brother, absent mother and a sus scientist father and be so fleshed out, but Michiru never got that chance.

You can always say “oh maybe in another getter project” but fuck knows when that’ll happen ever man💀

[slippery-minghus]

hmm. had an actual conversation with nightmare coworker today that seemed mutually productive. she apologized for saying some bullshit that hurt my feelings and i clarified that my intentions are to help not to undermine her, and we both agreed that there's no competition against each other and that it's the lack of growth in our role that's the problem. it was...productive.

and further cementing for me that it is time to begin making my Exit. i will be sending out my resume to a few places this weekend.

i'm still processing the conversation, and am struggling to place myself in where i am responsible to better my behavior. because i genuinely don't want to be an ass, even though i really don't like this lady and will jump for joy the day i never have to see her again. she stated that she knows my intentions aren't to hurt her, and that she thinks i'm very kind. i apologized for if my behavior came off as undermining her, and said that my intentions are only to better my own growth—and that i know she's trying to succeed too. i validated her feelings, and complemented the effort she is putting in.

where i'm struggling with is: am i in the wrong/causing harm and needing to change if the issue is that her feelings are incongruent with what she knows of my intentions? her feelings are her responsibility (WOW i almost typed "her feelings are my responsibility". i feel like that's a freudian slip) and she states that she knows i don't mean to hurt her. i'm going to try to be more clear in wording my intentions with her (she feels like me trying to take work off her plate is to undermine her. when really, i'm caught up and see her getting overwhelmed, and i want to help and also have something to do since i'm bored).

but i'm really struggling to look at my role in this and pass judgement on myself. i can and want to do better, and i don't think i did anything wrong, but i'm always so hesitant to say it's not my fault or i didn't do something bad. like i can't trust my judgement on that. my intentions were good, her bad feelings are ones caused by her insecurities, which she more or less has expressed to be aware that they are not true—the hurtful thing she said to me, she acknowledged was said out of hurt and not what she actually thinks. so, is it fair to say i'm not the bad guy? i'm not in the wrong? i know good intentions that still result in harm don't absolve anyone, but when the things that are clashing are insufficient communication and reactive insecurities... i'm not a monster, am i?