#badass anime characters

[gogoani]

The most Handsome Men in Naruto

10. Deidara

9. Madara

8. Tobirama

7. Hashirama

6. Pain

5. Neji

4. Sasuke

3. Minato

2. Itachi

1. Kakashi

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shinomiya, from now on, you're our third strongest weapon after the captain and vice-captain… it will be your job to annihilate the kaiju.

kaiju no. 8 episode 09 - shinomiya kikoru

[smileyaly]

The Drama King main character of Dreamworks who loves wearing eyeliner and boots and looks effin good wearing them.

[flower-blossoms654]

Each time I think about how they took out the Goldy Pond arc, I get so angry. Cause like not only was it a good ass arc, getting rid of it takes out something integral to the story as a whole, that I just don’t think they realized/cared about:

The validation of Emma’s beliefs.

Emma is established to be this happy-go-lucky character right? And as the children are still in Grace Field, you see that she still keeps this demeanor while juggling the new graveness of the situation she is in. While losing some of her naivety, she still shows herself capable of being someone hopeful for the future who will not let her circumstances get the better of her. The most important part of what makes this WORK for her character (instead of making it annoying and unrealistic) is the fact that she both acknowledged and experiences the tragedy of the world she is trying to be hopeful in. It’s not some little girl being like “I believe everything’s gonna be fine! Sparkles and rainbows!” while being shielded from the darker parts of the world. It’s a little girl who looks in the face of the darkness and that terrible world and is in the MIDST of it. It’s a little girl who found the dead body of her younger sibling and was faced with the reality that her whole life was a lie. It’s a little girl who realized her whole family was going to die and fought to grab onto her hope despite how overwhelmingly bleak their situation was. She knew and yet she didn’t hesitate to believe that they could escape. She knew and still wanted to yell to the world that she was going to save EVERYONE. Seeing someone so unwaveringly hopeful even after being hit with devastating loss and despair is like a beacon for anyone else struggling to keep surviving. Emma is lovable for how she loves—how her hope and determination stands fast in the face of adversity and still goes forward even as more events threaten to shake and bend it.

For whatever reason season 2 was changed the way it was (I’ve heard many things)(if it was because of the guns then WHY pick up the anime in the first place bc you derail EVERYTHING) it could never stand completely without Goldy Pond.

Goldy Pond is in plain terms Emma’s defining arc. It seems to be pushing forward a question whose answer will define the rest of the series.

“Who is Emma?”

Not as she is with her siblings. Not as she is when there is her family there to keep her going. Who is Emma, and how will she grow from here on out?

Goldy Pond is the first time Emma is “alone”. She has none of her siblings around her and she is in an unfamiliar environment, with people she does not know. People by all means unconnected to her when she has a family to get back to and protect.

But Emma doesn’t treat them that way. She cares for each stranger she meets, jeopardizing her safety by using herself as bait—by charging forward into battle to protect them and change the demons’ focus. As the arc progresses and she meshes herself into the other children’s ranks, treating them as family as well, it seems to be clear what the answer is. As she serves as a distraction in this main fight. As she reminds them of details of HOW they can win this fight even when there seems to be no hope left. When she gets empaled and STILL takes a shot to kill Duke Leuvis.

Emma is hopeful and kind and self-sacrificing. She treats strangers as she would treat her family, and cares for all lives the same. She is so overwhelmingly forthright and sincere in her emotions and love, that you can’t help but want to support and follow her. That is who Emma is. She is not naive. She has seen death and battle and bleak circumstances but still rises to the challenge EVERY time — and most importantly this time was the bleakest so far. This time she was “ALONE”.

She has the experience behind her to make her care for all things “valid”. This is not a silly, childish little girl not knowing all the different aspects of her declarations. She says they will survive and you can take her for her word because she knows what it’s like to be near death. But specifically and more crucially for Goldy Pond (and therefore the rest of the series): Emma says that she wants to save demons. And with Goldy Pond, you can take her word for it.

When Norman declares that his way of saving everyone is to have a demon genocide, the most important part of this is that we as the readers support Emma and her viewpoint (that the demons should not be killed.) Her viewpoint is valid in the manga because of what she has gone through. Emma says she wants to save demons and we can take her for her word because she has experience at the hands of some of the worst cruelty from demons possible. She and other children were hunted for sport. She was placed in a mockery of a sanctuary and hunted down for demons entertainment—not for the demon’s hunger or survival but for FUN. And she still turns around and says that she believes there are GOOD demons.

Without this, Emma has nothing in her experience for her to stand toe to toe with Norman’s beliefs. She looks like a naive, silly child trying to justify a foolish dream when she has experienced nothing of the world. It’s practically an insult to Norman and his experiences and it doesn’t give off what it should to the watcher. How are we supposed to believe in Emma (and go against a GENOCIDE) when it seems as if the writers want to paint that the genocide is the reasonable answer (when it fucking ISNT). And this is all because without Goldy Pond, Emma doesn’t have the experience to be meaningfully hopeful. She can’t properly value her positive experience with Mujika because she doesn’t not have a big enough negative experience to weight it against (and gracefield isn’t good enough bc Norman has gone through more than that). For Emma to have weight, she needs to be able to weight the good and the bad and STILL choose good. To still choose to be hopeful and caring.

Getting rid of Goldy Pond got rid of such an important foundation of Emma as a character and I can never forgive them for that.

[thechaotichorselord]

WIP that i hope to finish

i just wanna post what i got so far because i’m proud of it :3

song is QUEEN- english cover by trickle

Black belongs to @blackkatdraws

[sshirakumo]

"Jean, if you think I'm a Titan for odd jobs and not cut out for combat, you're dead wrong! With the Cart's endurance, as long as I'm not taken out, I can keep going until I’ve won!”

[puppetgutz]

I don't see nearly enough love for Naigus as there should be.

[ganondoodle]

okay, bc i have seen this argument alot now (and it also seems to be the view point of aonuma himself..) is that "zelda cant do everything link does bc whats the point then"

and i take personal offense on that bc its a stupid argument (in. my. very. personal. opinion.- not judging people for liking it. its a ME thing)

whats the point? its that its her. its still a different character, different in story, background, personality, but i WANT to play zelda and she can do everything link does, why does she have to be so restricted and be bend over backwards to find some new way to make her 'useful' when link gets to do basically everything no questions asked (the only thing thats hers is like .. sealing power and sacrificial maiden, which i find a little underwhelming to say the least), if theres no point to it why are there always modders that model swap link with someone else, and in that case it has even less impact bc its an artificial model swap with no changes to the story (which can and should still be different when its the vanilla game with a different protagonist... its still a different character), clearly theres joy in just the model being a different one- and that isnt even to mention the story possibilities, since, again, its stil a different character

if we ever (never ... i know who we are talking about here) get to play as ganondorf i want to him to be just as versatile and active as link is, if we got a point and click adventure game for him instead bc 'whats the point' id be disappointed too- you can find any sort of excuse/explanation for zelda to be singled out but the fact remains it tracks with how female characters are often treated, and that hits a very sore spot for me

i guess i am unfortunately one of those annoying people that want to see female characters be treated exactly the same as male characters, possibly bc i am myself afab but identify as agender and have a deeply personal dislike for anything 'traditional' feminine bc i cannot and never will be able to truly live as myself in real life, it influences all of my work, my work is as just as much as my opinion on this, very personal

and in line with my point about modding, i see theres joy in just beign able to play as her even if its like this, i get that, i also get it for the creative aspect (though that mechanic worries me even more for the future bc it really seems to be the path now that -freedom = good, linear anything = bad-) it is a different idea and its not like i cant see that value- im not trying be "right" either, just bc i have that opinion doesnt mean i need everyone to agree, its a very personal thing, if you like it good for you! not for me though, and i think both of that is equally valid

i just personally wish she was allowed to be just like link, fight just like him but be different bc its still her and not him in the end- to be physically/playstyle like jsut like him, but you know ... as her, i dont think shed stop being zelda if she could wield a sword just like him

i dont really know how to get my point/feelings across, i dont want to step too much into personal stuff nor spam people with something that ultimately doesnt interest me alot, im just saddened by it really

(EDIT: bc i forgot to add this on here again; this isnt as much of a problem as it might sound like here, just the main topic i wanted to talk about; why im so uninterested in it is MAINLY bc i dont trust them to write anything interesting/care about lore anymore after totk, im always on the more pessimistic side that thinks its most likely worse than id hope and i know even the past games arent perfect or super interestingly written, but now its much more just a general distrust, together with everything like the price ... im just much less hopeful and cant get excited until i see more of it, like im waiting for the game to get out and reveal that its just as much of a mess and money i regret spending- kind of fear)

[epickiya722]

Look, I don't care how you feel about this woman right here.

IT IS BADASS THAT HER INTRO IS HER ACTUALLY STANDING ON THE FRONT END OF A DAMN PLANE WHILE ITS ZOOMING THROUGH THE AIR!! WITH HER HANDS ON HER HIPS AND A PROUD GRIN ON HER FACE!! 💫

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Lily's views on action shows are very confusing. She wants to see female protagonists mow through their enemies with ease, and the second there's any kind of conflict, she'll either complain about characters moping like Luz from The Owl House, or claim that a character being hurt in an action show is being "tortured" like Korra.

Which you know, is a little eyebrow raising when you look at Lily's own writing, mainly her Star Wars fanfic. Didn't Aliana get injured more then once, even needing a prosphetic??? Does this not count as writing torture porn by Lily's logic. After all, if a character gets hurt in any way in her eyes, its either torture porn, a fetish or something along those lines. Or is it another Lily's allowed to do it because insert how she does it better then any other writers....I mean I ain't gonna lie, I'd watch Fullmetal Alchemist over reading Lily's writing if I wanted disabled characters at this point, given how I swear Aliana's prosphetic took its sweet time showing up in art drawn for the fic, let alone how she depicts other disabilities in other writing.... And I would point out how Lily TECHNICALLY reduced Rey to being depressed forever when with Aliana when she's out here acting like Luz being slowly depressed over everything is bad....but I'm pretty sure Rey being depressed in the fic is a fetish for Lily because...Aliana never does anything about it and seems to enjoy the smell of Rey when Rey's not showered at all, let alone thought it was good to say Rey would just end her life when Aliana died, acting like Rey has nothing left to live for and the couples kids and grandkids would be fine with it....so if anything, I wonder if Lily hates Owl House for Luz being depressed for a bit because its not depicted in a romantic light like Lily does in her writing, its depicted as a bad state for Luz that she eventually gets out off. The same going for Korra actually now that I think about it. It's never once depicted in a light that Lily herself can romantize or fetish. Korra is in constant pain in the torture moments and has PTSD from it, PTSD she has to slowly recover enough from so she can be the avatar again. Lily saying the writers/animators enjoyed doing the scene, acting like they into torture porn is major projection on Lily's part, but also clearly her being mad the show doesn't give into her fetishes.

But like beyond fetishes....Lily and action shows is just: *Lore? Bad. *Plot? Bad. *Male characters who are white? Bad. *If your character struggles and gets injured and shit? TORTURE PORN. Like it'd be one thing if she just said she didn't like the damn shit shes talking about, but no, she just makes up bullshit and acts like she's right and if you disagree, your insert whatever thing she can come up with.

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Ashiro Mina Headers + Icons (Kaiju no. 8)

↳ requested by Elena (@ashiromina)

[monsterhighlovurr]

Why is wordgirl lowkey a goated show?

[ruthplaysthesims]

I am OBSESSED with this hair from @johnnysimmer . It fits her perfectly!! You ate this upp Johnny!!!

The sword is from @abysschildd-sims

Outfit: @rimings @trillyke @madlensims @pralinesims

[zhongrin]

also i had no idea jane doe's trailer was like...... that............ man. she makes yelan's trailer look like it's made for kids......

[beanghostprincess]

Usopp: okay so we have the pet rat we just need to go to my dad and give it to him as a gift and he won't be depressed that his wife is- this is dumb. This was a dumb idea. I should have just got the fucking cat fuck!

Sanji:.......... Can I have the rat?

Usopp: sure.

Sanji: I'm going to name her sprinkles!

Usopp: I feel like you planned this.

Sanji did indeed plan this. He didn't expect it to work but it did and now he has a pet rat. Usopp bought a cat so now the red hair pirates have a cat. He hates everyone except for yasopp so I guess it's a win ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

HELP EJKBEJKBRK Sanji has been asking to have a pet rat for so long and Nami kept saying he couldn't have one (because of reasons definitely not related to Luffy going INSANE if he has an animal to play with. Honestly, that's scarier than the possible hygiene issues) but now that they have a rat... They can't just... Leave her on her own... Right... He cries a little. Does puppy eyes to keep her. Nami gives in to those eyes for once in her life. The rat is actually adorable, so it's alright. And Sanji just- He loves the thing. Usopp thought it'd be just a silly pet but it's basically with Sanji 24/7. On his shoulder. In his pockets. Sleeping with him. He speaks to her all the time. And somehow?? He's happier?? He seems better. Like, emotionally stable. What the fuck. And Usopp never thought he'd say this but Sanji was right and rats indeed do wonders for his mental health. Besides, the little thing loves Usopp too so so much. It's like she's a Sanji 2.0 because of how much she loves Usopp and how little she stands Zoro's presence (fucking hates him for some reason but Sanji couldn't be prouder).

And now Yasopp has a cat!!!! Please, tell me it's a very unhinged cat that actually looks adorable when you look at it at first but in reality, hates everybody that isn't Yasopp, Usopp, or Sanji. Please. He hates Shanks the most too. It'd be hilarious that they met Buggy once and the cat just ADORES him because Buggy is such a cat guy. And Shanks is so sad to see the cat and Buggy receiving the love he can't give them. Yasopp can't stop laughing at him. His mood has improved, actually. He's happier and more energetic and the cat is just as fun as him!

[letoscrawls]

I love how the people who haven't seen the clone wars and rebels are like "oh yes bo katan is so badass i'm starting to love her a lot" etc etc while i'm here like. this woman is the equivalent of a dumpster fire. she's such a loser look at her rotting in a throne room the whole day doing absolutely nothing but being miserable. she's so bored that she's travelling across the galaxy to help the equivalent of a distant acquaintance. just to feel something. even though she's supposed to dislike Din because he got in the way by accident she's so done with everything that she helps him. i'm sure if some other random characters showed up she would have helped them as well because she's so bored. Give me more of this please