#casca addendum ig. shes objectively not like. well well written. but all things considered. shes pretty good | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

waywardsalt · 2 months ago

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was going through my blog trying to track down an old post i made talking abt my feelings on jolene and it was. much longer than i remembered it being. and haha yeah i still agree with it. i need to fucking. sort out my feelings on that character and that subplot

#like. its just been A Thing where once i thought abt it too hard it was just Wow i hate this actually #its not entirely like a visceral discomfort but its a sort of like. its unpleasant to think abt this for too long #like??? the easiest way for me to explain it is that normally its fine like ok a pursuer antagonist character to add lil backstory #but the moment you toss in the implication that she still has romantic feelings for him it jumps up to WOW THIS IS UNCOMFORTABLE #for me. for me. like just all of it? and some fan stuff that influenced it like. bad jokes and uncomfy phrasing that leans to linebeck bein #like an unwilling participant or ‘giving in’ like fan stuff also REALLY hasnt helped so i just. yknow avoid it #salty talks #might delete later but i didnt delete the og so whatever #like she is absolutely just. badly written. shes a joke and poorly written and its just. there and there are implications #it does just come down to. shes badly written and the way linebeck reacts to all of it doesnt help #like when i worry abt like. coming off as sexist. its like nah shes just fucking badly written #casca is a similar kind of character as someone aggressive to her love interest and lashing out at him despite having feelings #but shes like. well written. and guts reciprocates. and you like. see them communicate and grow closer #here youre just given a disastrous fucking aftermath where communication is completely broken down #and while the aggressive party still has feelings the other party actively wants to just not engage with it and actively doesnt care #cuz like. he literally does not bring her up or allude to her outside of her being immediately relevant i cannt see him being interested #GOD. i just need to write all this out i keep justifying myself with it i need to. get it out #im narrowing down. something. for how i think their backstory together goes with it being a lot of miscommunication and it just being like #a bad situation anyways with their last actual encounter being a violent one and its like yeah no that was a trainwreck #i know its a fucking like. comedic(????) subplot in a lighthearted childrens game #but it has Vibes to me and that game does have some darker vibes to it we all know that #and it just. i dont like her. i dont. i remember i used to be like. alright with her. and then i thought on it too much #casca addendum ig. shes objectively not like. well well written. but all things considered. shes pretty good #like im p sure she was made to suffer to make guts feel bad but. she does happen to be a kickass character in the midst of that

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