Shadybug’s Redemption
Okay, so for the most part Tales of Shadybug and Claw Noir was just perfect. But the end? It kind of seemed like lazy storytelling.
Throughout the special, we see Shadybug and Claw Noir are complex characters, capable of making good and bad decisions. They’ve been through trauma and lethal situations, even contracting a deadly virus. Their world is literally dystopia, for goodness sake.
But when we get to the end, it’s just like… we have a soulful talk on both ends, and that’s it?
Throughout the special, Shadybug and Claw genuinely seemed like different characters from their counterparts. AND I LOVED THAT!
OF COURSE they aren’t the same. They’ve had different life experiences, different challenges, etc. But at the end, it seems like Shadybug and Claw morph to be almost exact duplicates of Ladybug and Chat. Specifically Shadybug changes very drastically.
I agree with the narrative element to make them good characters, but I feel like this is an easy way out. You’ve written a complex character who isn’t an exact clone of Ladybug. But now she’s changed her name to Ladybug, and her appearance is almost the exact same, too…
I just feel like they lose their wildness, their street smarts, the derring-do that comes from fending for yourself in this dystopian world.
They can lose their evilness without losing themselves. Half of their character traits were relinquished with their allegiances to evil. Poor Shadybug is left looking and acting like… a recolored version of our normal hero? What happened to her cunning? You can keep that in a good hero. It’s still an established character trait.
And no one sees anything wrong with leaving the alternate heroes to their own devices for “The Supreme”, and all that jazz?
Even Shadybug?
Their redemption feels like less of a ‘get rid of the evil’ so much as ‘get rid of the chaos’. These alternate heroes are nothing like Ladybug and Chat, and that’s good.
They’re rebellious, angsty, and ultimately normal human teenagers. They can be good and multifaceted. Not every hero has to be perceived as perfect.
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I’m getting serious on main for a moment. Not sorry. I’m an indigenous studies specialist (4th year of uni wooo)
I’m so so so so fucking tired of having the oh should indigenous XYZ be prioritized (not diminishing indigenous cultures here I’m just using a place holder)
FUCKING YES- and I’m tired of having this conversation and writing this essay. We should and the dialogue in my 4th year should be how and not oooooh should we? YES WE SHOULD BE
It’s bullshit. I’m tired and I WANT SO BADLY to be creative and think of ways but nooooo I’m stuck in the should we hell again.
Get good, and stop being like this
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Finished the cutscene of IW’s backstory (the schism??) I don’t fully understand it but it's still p cool! Is the god that IW’s sect prayed to is the tentacle demon (which was defeated by the current sect’s god the six armed angel)?? So is the initial descent of the tentacle monster responding to acolyte’s prayers (and taking payment by defiling acolyte)?? Like I still don’t get why exactly do they care about the necklace so much but it’s so far the most interesting piece of plot I’ve encountered in this game
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moms will make the most out of pocket passive aggressive comments and then tell **you** that you’re hard to engage with for telling them off agsgsjsg girl make it make sense
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I hate when people are like “it wasn’t intentional so it doesn’t mean anything” or “why should anybody have to apologize for an accident,” because while their intentions are not ill, accidents can still hurt people.
For example, you accidentally drop a glass cup onto the floor and it shatters. You didn’t mean to drop the cup, you didn’t mean for it to shatter, but the glass is still on the floor. Even if you didn’t plan to hurt anybody, the glass shards still hurt people. Nobody is forcing you to apologize if you accidentally say or do something insensitive, it’s your choice, but leaving the glass shards on the floor for people to step on will hurt people regardless if “you didn’t mean it.”
Everyone makes mistakes. In fact, most people have probably dropped metaphorical glass cups on the floor. But you can still pick up the glass shards. You can think about why it broke in the first place and hold it differently to avoid dropping it again. You can still be sorry.
If someone else drops and shatters a glass cup, apologizes, and picks up the shards, but you personally didn’t step on the glass and get hurt, that doesn’t mean you should start parading around about how that someone has been wrongly forced to clean up the glass shards. Nobody forced them to pick up the glass shards. They accidentally broke the cup, recognized the glass could hurt people, and cleaned it up. It should not be the standard to only clean up the glass shards when they have cut a thousand people’s feet and they are demanding it be cleaned up.
If you drop a cup and it gets glass all over the floor, it’s ok to admit it. You can still clean up the glass shards. You can get a new cup and hold it differently so that it doesn’t shatter. Just don’t leave the glass on the floor and say you don’t need to clean it up because it was an accident. You aren’t a bad person for making a mistake, but refusing to own up to it and change yourself for the better does make you a bad person.
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