#a defender of his ideals
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oomf died, what do i do -lu guang, probably
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#link click#shiguang daili ren#cheng xiaoshi#lu guang#cheng xiaoshi x lu guang#lu guang x cheng xiaoshi#finally got around to actually watching link click#finishing season 2 tonight#we are in shambles#i got spoiled by a youtube comment but i don’t know how the plot gets there#so we’re still balling#my little blorbos#cxs try not to do dumb shit that will cause a Lot of trouble in the future speedrun any%#was watching with a group of friends and like#we would collectively sigh whenever cxs did yet Another Dumb Thing#i’m still a cxs defender though#a defender of his ideals#not necessarily his actions#we all agreed that cxs is like that one guy you don’t wanna do a group project with lmao
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I rag on Maes Hughes for being chill with genocide but to be *entirely* fair upon a reread, it's not like he's loving it, he's just not particularly haunted by it either. Roy rants about how this is a betrayal of how he joined the military to protect people (mistake number one, dude, seriously) and Maes calls him naive. His reason for fighting is to stay alive. While Roy talks about his dreams of a better future, Maes refers to letters from his girlfriend as his brighter future. He's willing to support Roy's ambitions because Roy's his friend, but he thinks they're childish.
The impression I get is that Hughes has decided he can tolerate atrocities as long as he stays alive and can go home to his loving family, so he leans into that loving family really hard. That's his reward. That's what makes it worth it. Which adds a layer to Envy killing him while disguised as his wife. You can't hold those things separate. If you're a collaborator propping up an awful regime, your family (and you) will still eventually become its victims. The rot at the heart of the nation is wearing your loved one's face.
#one could extrapolate here that his insistence on Roy getting a wife#is also going 'hey why don't you give up your grand ideals and just settle like I did'#don't think there's a super solid case for that but not necessarily AGAINST it either#kat reads fma#this post kind of sounds like I am defending Roy so let me be clear#I would like to Fight him#I just get annoyed bc I feel like Hughes is interpreted as this perfect guy#why this
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Liking Gray Wing not in the "he's wise and did nothing wrong" kinda way but in a "characters who sabotage their interpersonal relationships and defend heinous actions for the sake of someone who doesn't care if they live or die are really interesting" kinda way
#gray wing#skystar#clear sky#warrior cats#dawn of the clans#on my first read of the dotc i didn't notice how terrible pretty much everyone is#but upon seeing some posts w/ excerpts from the books that i just overlooked... yikes?#gray wing did some pretty bad stuff and he really isn't the uber-wise nice guy that the fandom makes him out to be#but the fact that he hangs onto clear sky's ideals and defends him constantly is waaaaay more interesting to me#bro didn't care that clear sky killed someone for no reason. he just wants to defend his brother.#maybe for an ounce of validation? maybe because they grew close after their sister died? i don't know#fun to think about
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Watched Implicitly Pretentious’ video on Clash from JL:U and want to blab
Like they said, this Superman is like this because he’s been through this all before, he’s kinda gotten his old values shaved down and narrowed to still being a hero but not the one he started out as. Which, just hurts to see progressively get worse and that version of Superman become a simpler, angrier version of himself for a time, and it hurts to see that current state of Clark clashing with Billy.
In the final goodbye he gives the League as he’s resigning, Billy says it himself, he’s fought his own battles before and each time he didn’t stoop to his bullies level to win. Each time Billy was out there he was thinking “What would Superman do?” like a lot of people do, he tried to be that ideal he’d grown up seeing in this universe and he actually got there.
Batman says it kinda humorously in another scene during that episode when Clark says “I thought I was the Boy Scout.” and Batman responds with “I did too, until I met Captain Marvel.” Billy is quite literally what Superman used to be in that world, someone trying to do the right thing because they can and be an example of what to do. Clark used to be Billy’s example of what to do, but when this Clark at that time met him he was annoyed at how naive he seemed.
Once more like IP said, Clark’s lost that passion to believe that people could get better as heroism’s become to routine and job like to him and the League as a whole that Billy still has. But because the League doesn’t, because they don’t act like heroes anymore, Billy leaves. He obviously made friends or was friendly with other League members, he’s a hero working with the people he grew up admiring and wanting to be like, but he leaves when they aren’t standing for the ideals they inspire.
#what also hurts in all this is that afterwards there’s a time where Billy thinks he was right to defend Lex in that episode#bc he sees what the public sees for the most part. and what they see is a reformed man#but then there’s later on when Lex fuses with brainiac or what have you#and Billy has to either sit there listening on the radio or reporting on it that Lex went back to his roots#that Billy was wrong. he belived too much and Lex never really changed#and that’s gotta damage the hopeful ideals he’s been holding onto to know that the more jaded Superman was right the whole time#never see him again but in the background there’s a kid who lost faith in his heroes and probably lost faith in the hero he is#and it kills me#shazam#billy batson#superman#jlu#justice league unlimited#dc
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Love how we can all agree that, while never explicitly talked about, it’s awful suspicious that the two bats Talia had heavy influence over both tried to kill Tim.
#jason todd#dc#damien wayne#talia al ghul#i mean definitely not all agree but hold with me here#Till my dying day I will defend the idea that Talia#to some degree#influenced Damien and Jason’s hatred of Tim#(also isn’t it convenient that his plan was basically to 1) get rid of the current Robin and 2) have Bruce kill the Joker or do it himself#who would this benefit more than Talia? It gets rid of the biggest potential danger plus the competition for her precious baby boi#plus ideally lowering Bruce’s moral standards enough for him to definitely accept Dami and possibly allowing her to swoop in as his savior#sure it’s also good for Jason (to an extent) and I strongly believe he came up with most of it#but how heavy a role did she actually play in shaping his vengeance? Food for thought#Damien’s pretty simple. just. get rid of the competition. not exactly much to worry about but definitely something she helped shape
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#If I had a coin every time a celestial character goes against his superiors to defend his ideals#and this ends up changing the destiny of the world#I would have three coins which isn't much but it's strange that it happened three times#hazbin hotel#hazbin hotel meme#toh#toh meme#the owl house#su#su meme#steven universe#steven universe meme#rose quartz#pink dimond#collector#lucifer#collector toh#lucifer hazbin#lucifer hazbin hotel#gravity falls meme#cartoon meme
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sorry that reminds me. mark and william parallels. never fully believed in the system they were under but never did anything about it until they experienced a highly traumatic event that flipped their world and worldview on its head, losing all faith in the system they were under and falls more and more away with every loss they experience. vs dakota and tide who have always had faith and gains even more every time they lose something. there's a full analysis post in here somewhere but words are escaping me
#something something when ashe was gone dakota went back to his childhood ideals while william removed himself from things he believed before#zia.og#zia.txt#jrwi prime defenders#mark winters#william wisp#yeah fuck you im maintagging this even though it makes no sense#pd spoilers#they're vague but they're there ig
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HD remake of a low effort meme i made a while back in response to people hating on my man pilots jay. dude is a critter to be studied if anything. he’s shitty he’s ridiculous he’s perfect and i love it
#art✨#ninjago#ninjago pilots#jay walker#i am the BIGGEST defender of early seasons jay he SUCKS and it’s what makes him fun#annoying characters are great actually.#everytime people try to make the ball of anxiety jay from the movie canon in the show i get more annoyed. he’s ICONIC#the line in possession where he yells ‘NO ONE CALLS ME PATHETIC’ right before getting bodied by morro is absolute gold#<- ideal jay characterization. overconfident smartass who’s sublimating his anxiety into snark with IMMEDIATE consequences
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Keith is the type of guy to have probably eaten the most abhorrent combination of singular ingredients on Earth and yet still turn his nose up at the green food goo cause "its green though" and he expected "green" to taste different
#its not even the texture for him#hes the sort of freak that would enjoy that texture#his ideal food texture really#its just that he expected something that green to taste different and the disconnect has him hating it#voltron#vld#voltron: legendary defender#keith kogane#vld keith#keith vld#keith voltron#voltron keith
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So with Ospreay fighting Swerve for the world championship, does that mean not only are we getting AEW VS AEW for the world championship at Forbidden Door but that Ospreay isn't gonna defend the international championship? Cause if there's one title that should be on the line at every Forbidden Door it's that one, so unless they book him to have two matches...
#if they have taken the international championship out of play for forbidden door then that is monumentally stupid imho#I get they might be wanting to set things up now so they can run back swerve vs ospreay at all in#(and they could announce an international defence yet. there's still time)#but if they do that by having ospreay defend the international title first then lose to swerve for the world title#that'd be like saying ''yeah the champ only won because will was already tired'' which doesn't sit well with me#I am concerned since they're booking ospreay like he can't lose#I hope this match is his first loss cause swerve deserves longer as champ but the timing of this match just doesn't feel ideal
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ONCE YOU’RE STRIPPED CLEAN, WHAT IS AT YOUR CORE ?
cauterizing rage.
the house has burned around you, and you’re the only one left standing. is it gratifying to be the survivor? fear and anger are weapons in your capable hands, used only to serve your agenda of fighting back when deemed necessary. you're a powerful person, built from the ashes of your despair and your family's mistakes. with time, you'll bloom into someone softer, like the full blossoms that grow each spring and wither away with the leaves in fall. they won't disappear if you take your eyes off of them. you're enough.
tagged by: @dcwnthercbbithcle tagging: @mehrcedita , @lessluck ( for Any muse across all your blogs tbh!!<3 ) , @princetorn + anybody else who would like!!!
#dash games.#muse: wes.#(( shook by this being wesleys answer bc he NEVER gets angry!! Ever!! ))#(( but fear?? Fear he knows. more than he knows himself. fear IS wesley for so long. it WAS wielded against him - like anger was ))#(( hed never want to be that cruel ))#(( however.... i DOO think this is so fitting anyway like. he WILL fight and defend others if need be. he'll put himself in harms way ))#(( w no hesitation. ))#(( & he IS unsettling. he's scary! he's a horror when he transforms- & he KNOWS it. it revolts him & scares him too ))#(( and thats not to mention the way his unsettling demeanor/bluntness/brevity can set people off ))#(( also. god that first line?? THE HOUSE BURNED DOWN AROUND YOU. yeah. y e a h. despite his best efforts he IS the only crane left ))#(( built from the ashes of your despair/familys mistakes. god his dads anger & all the abuse & his mom staying despite it all. ))#(( his dads anger LITERALLY shaping him. in life molding him w/ fear/anger/pain. murdering him & turning him into the living corpse he is )#(( or the ghost he becomes in other verses ))#(( but IDEALLY. ideally he gets to build a new self out of those ruins!! from the ashes!! ))#(( and maybe that person gets to be softer. maybe he gets to realize that OTHERS can be soft and kind too. ))#(( ANYWAY ANYWAY MANY THOUGHTS MANY FEELINGS!!!! thank you sooooo so much for tagging me bunni ))
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i am suddenly thinking a lot about jiang cheng and jiang fengmian, specifically in how jiang fengmian—while not being outright cruel to jiang cheng—gives us no reason to believe that he is proud of or pleased with jiang cheng due to jiang cheng’s 1) penchant of maintaining a certain status quo/refusal to take risks and 2) the similarities of his personality to yu ziyuan. and yet, the time we see jiang cheng put himself in the danger, take a risk, defy yu ziyuan, is when he is putting himself in yu ziyuan’s own line of fire to protect wei wuxian from zidian, all while the wens are there and the threat they pose is dangerously tangible. and jiang fengmian is not even there to see it, let alone live long enough to hear of the events.
no clown activities (pro/anti character discourse) allowed on this post
#also on an unrelated note i think a lot abt how people who are also jc stans#sometimes try to represent jfm as someone who is actively harsh to jc#most likely to mirror the way yzy treats wwx#and i think what those depictions fail to realize#is that there is a certain heartbreak that comes w/ a parent that is passive#a parent who does not say anything distinctly mean but u know they are disappointed and displeased with u#a parent who will not say something in ur defense#a parent who will not defend u to others#a parent who lets the other say whatever to u and not interfere so waves are not stirred#and i think that is jc’s situation#we see it ourselves- jc is the point of contention yzy uses against jfm to taunt him abt his care towards wwx#and i think it offers a very tragically nice distinction to wwx#we have the harsh domineering physical lady of the house#and then we have the passive (almost domestically centrist) man of the house#and i think very often people use this as a pissing content to fight over#*contest#when really neither situation is ideal and neither pride come out of it unaffected#but it’s like. just as people try to push ‘wwx secretly hated lotus pier all along’ pushing jfm as overtly cruel just-#takes away the actual sadness present of a parent who u know deep down will not defend u#(and then jyl is also an interesting third party here-#bc we see jfm stick up for his daughter’s happiness-#and as far as i remember that’s kinda it with jfm and jyl?#but yzy. is also imo clearly displeased with jyl and thinks her neither capable nor powerful)#also i should note. jiang cheng is one of my all time favorite mdzs characters
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Listening to the Hadestown OST and getting fricked up over the musical and the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice again
> Listening to the song I chose for that (still unfinished) Jaiden and Roier animatic and getting even more fricked up
>> Listening to Epic III from the soundtrack and getting even more fricked up thinking about Pac and Madagio – specifically Pac appealing to Madagio's humanity (for lack of a better word), drawing parallels between Madagio and Fit and asking Madagio to change the narrative so he and Fit aren't doomed to the same fate as them.
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#i talk#qsmp talk#Every day I get closer to writing that frickin Pac and Madagio fic but I just can't#Don't have the time or enegy but LORD does it haunt me#I'm fascinated by Madagio. Tragic character but also horrible and cruel#In the way that efficiency and ruthelessness to achieve an objective no matter the cost is inherently cruel#''He's grown so afraid that he'll lose what he owns''#''But what he doesn't know is what he's defending is already gone''#''Where is the treasure inside of your chest? Where is your pleasure where is your youth?''#''Where is the man with his arms outstretched to the woman he loves with nothing to lose''#That specifically is what makes me think of Pac and Madagio#man I'm just here to rewrite tragedies#I want to save them#<– That includes Jaiden and Roier for the record but I've talked that topic to death#I'm still so o(-( over Jaiden man. Every time the ideal animatic songs I have in mind come up in my playlist I frickin cry over her#Jaiden Fit Pac and Bobby. Those three made me cry so much
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hes literally never smiled like this before not for his lis not for his qpps just for his bestie isabela 😭
#the thing about isabela is that she doesnt trigger the worst of cyrus' overprotectiveness & worrying#not that he doesn't care for her or wouldn't give his life in a heartbeat to defend her but he respects her pride in her own independence#which leads to her being a very easy & even comforting person for him to be around. no expectation no judgment from either of them#they're so much closer this playthrough & their friendship despite their vastly different ideals is vvv important to me#(and the slow process of isabela rediscovering some of those more selfless values within herself......!!)#cyrus hawke
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I'm... kind of confused about this? Like Ignatz is basically saying the only way for people to move forward is by continuing to fight and destroy? That's a pretty awful message in general, but coming from Ignatz it just feels weird. It sounds like he's just accepted war and that it's just... something that happens so we should shrug it off and move on?
I know this game tends to have very strong pro-war/pro-invasion messages which is already really gross to me, but it went from being annoying and icky to just making me feel disgusted. Also, Ignatz of all people shouldn't just shrug his shoulders and be like well that's just the way of things, I guess! There's an active war going on so it makes sense that towns could be rebuilt and destroyed again. It doesn't mean just give up on it.
Also really doesn't feel like an Ignatz thing to say.
#DCB Three Hopes Run#I'll be honest I have very low opinions of people when I see them say shit like#Edelgard is in the right and it she was justified to invade territories#if there was provocation/she was attacked by another territory first I'd get it#but I can't sympathize with the concept in general of attacking another nation that has nothing to do with you#it feels absolutely disgusting and seeing people actually DEFEND that is extremely concerning about their real life values#especially when she's very open about how the purpose of it is conquest and not actually the Church#and no nobody can use the Faerghus sheltering refugees as an excuse bc she attacks them in both games#and they didn't shelter the Church at all outside CF. in Hopes it's just a reason the writers needed to be able to#make it so the game had a similar story to Houses and to give a reason so the war still happened#Faerghus was quite literally minding its own business and growing at an astoundingly fast pace#and suddenly they have to decide whose side to take in a war? they didn't want to go to war but they were forced#and Ignatz here basically shrugging his shoulders figuring it's just a way of life to be at war is... not a good message#people who initiate war do it for their own political and territorial gain and that's true of this story too#it's not a question of whether or not it was Edelgard's goal bc she just outright SAYS it is#like... she's not hiding it? she's not trying to dodge the fact? and like again you can like her character as a fictional character#but it would be like if I said I love Ashnard and bc of that I agreed with his goals ideals and values and that#he was justified in attacking Crimea and torturing laguz. he's a really cool character and I love what he brings to the story#but there's a fine line between finding a fictional character interesting/fascinating#and outright defending their actions and basically saying conquest is okay as long as you tell people it's for another reason#i.e. Edelgard gave the propaganda about ''for the people'' but that wasn't her goal. if it WAS#she'd be contacting Dimitri in those two years like hey I see you guys are making strides in your politics mind giving us some advice#if her goal was for the people she would've spent those two years for the people and fixing shit not preparing for war#it just... really leaves a sick feeling for me that people legitimately believe her violence is justified and that here Ignatz is basically#saying that war is just a thing we all should just accept. like... how is war the only way for humans to move forward???#the one good thing Twitter does is that it tries to at least give sympathies to attacked nations#if this game was real you'd be seeing ''Faerghus attacked'' ''Faerghus invaded'' ''pray for Faerghus'' all over Twitter lmao#like if this was never a fictional story and if it was just real life there would have been only support on social media
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Loving everyone in the comments of the leverage fic giving their opinions on what species the gang should be it is very fun and it is giving me Ideas.
#chit chat#tbh you know what would be REALLY funny?#if the team ends up san lorenzoing riyo chuchi into chancellorship#accidentally#or even on purpose#i mean she's not who i usually go for in a new Chancellor fic but hey#she's like. canonically. the number one clone defender now isn't she???#it would be sooo funny if she accidentally ended up stealing the Republic without even realizing who the leverage team ade#*are#fox can be her first lady I don't think he deserves the nightmare of running the Republic#it doesn't even have to be romantic foxiyo. power couple best friends accidentally becoming the highest members of the government#after palpatine is most embarrassingly exposed as a fraud and a liar and a criminal and a shitty boss and--less importantly. a sith.#his whole life is in shambles. the young hopes of the republic swear to uphold the ideals of it and root out corruption.#and the Team is there. gloating.#Sophie fakes her death again and Palpatine has a public meltdown about this random pantoran woman who's supposed to be dead#none of these are serious ideas yet I'm just spitballing. but they could be.#im gonna call this#let's go steal a republic au#because none of my tags have yet been the actual name of the fic#and that's not gonna change now
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