#also probably an unpopular opinion but the ending really wasn't that bad. like yeah it'd benefit from slower pacing but overall not bad

[frodolives]

So uhmm I finally finished watching game of thrones!! I know I'm four years late but whatever I like to take my time with stuff... anyway Tyrion Lannister you will always be famous

[tagthescullion]

Unpopular opinion you might disagree with:I don't think Thalia would fit in the throne scene/Luke's deathbed.

She didn't seem to have any complicated feelings towards Luke in TLO and just treated him as an enemy to be defeated. Fair enough,they were at war, and Thalia had a more pragmatic personality than Percy's and Annabeth's. While her perspective was perfectly valid,I don't think it would add anything to anyone,character-wise;

Thalia and Luke had already said their bitter goodbyes in TTC. She tossed him off a cliff and basically said, "I don't know you anymore." If that doesn't signal a bitter ending to a relationship,I don't know what does. There's a chance Luke himself might agree,IMO;

Thalia at the throne room probably would be just someone who hates Luke and thinks he made colossal mistakes. Fair enough,but I don't think he needed anyone else to scream about his bad choices and say he sucks. The guy is plenty aware of his fuck ups,and is suffering the consequences(even his afterlife might be ambiguous. Annabeth said to his face he might go to Elysium,but she also wondered,many books later,if he was at Tartarus).

I do agree that thalia has a much more pragmatic personality than percy or annabeth, but there's also a lot of emotional turmoil to her, TTC shows that well

if you ask me, your takes are very valid, and supported by canon, yet I generally tend to think that thalia's situation with luke wasn't properly solved bc they never really talked. she does push him off a cliff and they throw jabs at each other amidst a battle but.. I need more than that for feelings to be put to rest (consider them platonic or romantic, it doesn't matter)

and then in BotL and TLO we don't get much from thalia.. TLO does have a moment where percy tells her what prometheus made him see, and she tells him "yeah luke was impulsive and irresponsible after that" but, frankly, the way she says that still sounds resented to me, not like she's solved stuff too well

as a counterpoint to my own argument, thalia generally hides her own emotions, in TTC she's reluctant to talk about luke, in TLH she meets jason, speaks for like 10 minutes, then helps him out and that's about it.. she does get angry at times --bc that's what bottling up stuff does to a person-- but I'd have liked a chance for her to speak her mind rather than act out

as for the throne room scene, again, your takes are hella valid, definitely supported by canon, but I can't agree, I feel like thalia would crack if she saw luke fighting kronos, and if anything she'd think more around the lines of "well, we could have brought him back, damn, that'll haunt me for a while..", but even if she was still wary --which is 100% fair, all things considered-- it'd have been interesting to have annabeth telling percy to give luke the knife, and thalia saying "jesus, no, DON'T give him the knife!"

[irikahkrios]

Kasumi, for the character ask game!

First impression - equal parts "hell yeah cool thief who can turn invisible" and confusion as to why her being dlc meant i couldn't actually Talk to her on the normandy like most of the other squadmates.

Impression now - one of the most likeable squadmates in me2, also super useful from a gameplay standpoint (especially early in the game; she's a fucking lifesaver in the obnoxious "close the shutters" part of garrus' recruitment mission).

Favorite moment - i really enjoy the ending of her loyalty mission, with her using keiji's graybox and getting to "see" him again and be reminded of how much he loved her, because i'm a sucker for tragic romantic stuff like that. also her popping up at opportune moments during the citadel party was great and fun overall, though i could have done without some of the uncomfortable sexual jokes the writers seemed to think were so funny (the whole jack and miranda conversation comes to mind)

Idea for a story - she should have gotten a mission in me3 that was actually Hers instead of being shoehorned into something that wasn't at all relevant to her as a character. i actually get to do this in my canon since i repurpose the "indoctrinated hanar diplomat" plot for one of my drell rebellion missions on kahje, so kasumi gets a different mission that's all her own. i like the concept of this mission being about helping her steal from rich assholes who are hoarding wealth and resources in this time of crisis, and giving these resources to people who desperately need them. i mean hell, she already is shown doing essentially this in the citadel dlc, i think it'd be really cool if the idea was expanded into a full mission and shepard actually got to help her do it.

Unpopular opinion - i don't know if i really have one about her as a character, other than the me3 stuff i just talked about? but re: her loyalty mission i wish you could have brought a second squadmate. i want to see my squadmates in fancy clothes, and also the combat on that mission is kinda hard and it would be a lot less hard with two squadmates.

Favorite relationship - kasumi/jacob is an underrated ship. i like the idea of it progressing into more than just her lusting over him from afar (or, more accurately i guess, lusting over him from pretty close up but cloaked so he can't see her lmao). i'm into the concept of them getting to know each other better and being brought together by the war; like, what if in my canon where kasumi gets her own mission, jacob's group of ex-cerberus refugees is one of the groups she's giving that stolen food and supplies to? and they bond over that? i dunno, there's definitely potential to grow this pairing beyond "she watches him do a thousand pushups and thinks he's really hot." i also wish we'd gotten more snippets of her relationship with keiji (but no i'm probably not gonna read the comic about them because i'm sure it's as bad as the thane/irikah comic and will just frustrate me)

Favorite headcanon - i've seen several people post headcanons about her and thane striking up a little friendship, and i think it makes sense. their rooms are right next to each other, they're both the "shadowy sneaky criminal with a heart of gold" type, and in bioware's version of canon they both are mourning their respective romantic partners. i definitely enjoy the idea of them as friends.