#as both a mlp and survival horror fan I love both of these medias and this rant comes from a place of love btw | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

basssiliskk · 9 months ago

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I have personal beef with most of the tiktok mlp infection aus because of how they mischaracterize or immediately kill off Twilight as if she doesn't literally give off the most potent Final Girl vibes 💀 like she's smart, strong, and knows how to function both alone & w/ a group. Her ass would NOT be dying immediately. Then if they don't make her the first to die they usually make her the evil-scientist villain or something.

Really missing the whole point of why survival horrors are scary, the main conflict should revolve around the struggle of surviving in a wasteland and the strained relationships that come along with that. What good does having a "main antagonist" do? They defeat them and then what? There's still zombies outside

#my little hater rant now that the trend has passed its peak and most people who wanted to throw their hat in the ring have #i really like some of them don't get me wrong #but i feel like a lot of them put their all into the designs and then don't have the same inspiration to write an impactful apocalypse STORY #and as a big twdg fan growing up i'm a big fan of survival horrors #the main conflict of any apocalypse story should always be man vs. nature bc zombies/walkers/whatever are all usually mindless #they don't have a motivation. it's the protag who has the motivation to survive #ofc you can have man vs. man or more importantly man vs. self sideplots but there's usually no “big bad” of any apocalypse story #there's no villain to defeat where once you do everything goes back to normal. unless you want to take a cop out route #and say that person was just hiding the cure all along #but not having a villain is a lot different from ANY mlp arc where there's always a main antagonist to defeat at the end of each season #like tirek or discord or chrysalis #which I think is why so many people making these aus struggle with this concept so much and why a lot of them feel directionless #because a lot of apocalypse stories end with the main character dying or leaving it open ended for a REASON #as both a mlp and survival horror fan I love both of these medias and this rant comes from a place of love btw #this is just me rambling about my interests #basilspeakss

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