#comparison of characters

[sky-of-dusk]

Kenta and Benkei: mirror characters (episode 1 to 7)

In the first part of Beyblade Metal Fusion, Kenta and Benkei (despite their rocky beginnings) are pictured as quite similar.

Admiration for a strong blader

I bet you fought a lot of tough battles. That must be what make you so strong. Anyway, how I can become stronger like you? (…) I hope Ginga is still here. I want him to give me some beyblade tips today.

– Kenta, episode 1

I've never met a blader like you Kyouya. You can teach me so much.

– Benkei, episode 4

Wishing stars

Kenta and Benkei both (unawaredly) make a wish upon a star, about the blader they admire. A wish that is going to be fulfilled in later episodes.

Ginga, hey Ginga, are you leaving for the next place soon? Because if you like maybe you could stay in this town a while.

– Kenta, episode 1

But I'd still like to know who that guy is and where in the world he took Kyouya.

– Benkei, episode 3

Refusing to give up

One more time.

– Benkei, episode 4

One more battle.

– Kenta, episode 6

The scenarists shoving the parallel to our faces

Those eyes… That look… I know how you feel Kenta. You're… [flashback of Benkei meeting Kyouya] Hey kid, you're just like me that time.

– Benkei, episode 6

Wild Imagination

Kenta, episode 1 – Benkei, episode 4

"Fighting Spirit!"

(They're so funny... It's the starting point of their friendship.)

Painting them as mirror characters is also used to put Ginga and Kyouya on an equal footing as bladers.

[fictionadventurer]

Personally, it's always a bit wild to me to see commentators interact with the Hunger Games franchise as if Collins were writing science fiction stories instead of essays with faces. She's just not that interested in fleshing out side characters or digging into the details of the worldbuilding. These characters are concepts and symbols before they're people. There's an almost mathematical precision to who and what she explores and how deeply she does it. This is a step or two away from pure allegory. If she were writing a couple of centuries ago, she'd have named her characters things like Innocence and Anger and Watch-Carefully-Your-Soul-Lest-Ye-Be-Damned, but since she's writing for modern audiences, she has to settle for puns and allusions. If she has another essay to write, she'll assign some faces to it; she's not going to look into backstories or other eras just for the sake of storytelling, and it's not a failing as a writer that she doesn't.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Vibes based grading system.

(for @epistemologys, who wanted some post-canon, teacher WWX)

[bastardofharrenhal]

favorite thing in asoiaf is that the stark family tree is just filled with haters in every generation. theon stark brandon snow alaric stark cregan stark even ned's brother brandon and lyanna too. even the current kids jon snow robb sansa and arya all have some kendrick lamar level of beef w at least one person. brandon the builder spawned an entire genre of haters

[anistarrose]

I've seen a poll like this for both fandom size and romantic ("/") rarepairs on AO3, but never for platonic ("&") relationships, so:

[sonjalikestodraw]

Come on down to the

Princess Parlor!

We've got:

rescue rangers! (good to abysmal)

"Thanks for the memories!"

power lifters!

cat café!

aaand

party at the edge of glory!

Princess the Princess from Slay the Princess -- truly the woman to ever!

[agentravensong]

thinking about how the extra area added on to a pacifist run of undertale, the true lab, is about alphys's past mistakes. how it ends with the story reaffirming that, despite the pain she's caused, the thing that matters is that she has now made the choice to do the right thing. she's still worthy of her friends' love.

thinking about how undertale doesn't expect the player to get a pacifist ending for the first time. how it's more likely than not that the player will kill toriel the first time they battle her, how lots of players don't initially figure out how to end undyne's fight without killing her, etc. what it expects — not even expects, really, but hopes — is that the player, if they care enough, will use their canonically acknowledged power over time to make up for those mistakes.

no matter how many neutral runs a player has done before committing to the pacifist run, the thing that matters to the characters, to the story, is that you've chosen, now, to do the right thing.

compared to alphys, the player honestly gets off lightly, in that you're the only one (other than flowey) who really remembers any harm you might have caused. and any direct guilting the game could have done about it is long past at this point. instead, as undertale often does, it makes its point via parallels: alphys caused harm, and she knows it. she has committed to being better. in doing so, she has unlocked for herself a better ending to her story. and she deserves it. she's forgiven.

those structural narrative parallels are all over undertale, if you know where to look. and that's one of the things that makes it so fuckin' good.

[canisalbus]

✦ Barbenheimer ✦

[vngful]

im sorry this made me laugh so f*cking hard i had to share it here too

[sky-of-dusk]

It's so interesting how Kyouya is haunting the narrative at the beginning of Beyblade Metal Fusion, when he's training with the Dark Nebula and doesn't have screentime anymore.

Episode 4:

The episode is focused on Benkei. We have a flashback about him meeting Kyouya. Kyouya seemed to be travelling to face strong bladers (like the Ginga). Benkei fights Ginga and, at the end of the episode, saves him. Madoka and Kenta are surprised by it, Ginga not so much. The end of the episode focuses on maybe the Face Hunters aren't that bad. And Ginga saying a blader training hard is an honorable opponent… with the episode starting on Kyouya training hard.

Episode 5:

Tetsuya cheats heavily and actually damages the beys. What Kyouya did against Ginga (using the Wind at the top of the Metal Tower) is shown as strategy. The Face Hunters threatened Sagittario, Kenta pictured them destroying it, but it did not happen. Contrary to the several scenes in which Tetsuya is shown damaging and destroying beys.

Moreover, having battled Kyouya allows Ginga to win against Tetsuya.

Episodes 6 and 7:

Hikaru appears. She isn't a villlain, but she respects less efforts than Kyouya. There's a very blatant parallel between them.

Episode 8:

Ginga and the others talk about Kyouya like he belongs to their group. He asks Benkei if Kyouya ordered him to keep challenging him, without a single hint of judgement in his voice.

Conclusion:

The scenarists are totally preparing the audience for Kyouya to come back and be with the good guys. Worst, they're preparing the audience for him being a good, skilled and honorable blader despite how it started XD

[abd-illustrates]

🎀 Beau 🎀

More art from this week's video! In which I made a couple more Genshin Impact OC’s! Finishing up the set here is this catalyst-wielding fashion designer from Fontaine with an anemo vision and a whole lot of flair 🎀✨

[DO NOT EDIT OR REPOST TO OTHER SITES / ACCOUNTS]   ♻️reblogs are lovely tho!♻️

[nerrolane]

tall v. small

(well... small in comparison)

[mightyneinrewatch]

Welcome to the Mighty Nein Rewatch!!

Beginning on Sunday, February 2nd of 2025, we will be rewatching campaign two from start to finish, one episode per week!

(Yes, that's Groundhog Day for the US... obligatory "help, it's again" joke)

I'll do my part on this little sideblog by posting which episode we are on every Sunday

Please use the tag #nein again if you would like to join me on this ride so we can all follow along and chat about the episodes like we did the first time!

[cozylittleartblog]

it is.... a mystery

[socksandbuttons]

So reminder to everyone for the Bean Au Moon has always been New Moon. Which due to all the Nexus things puts more light on his Identity issues on being compared to Moon (fascinating too, i saw many people talk about that WAYYY before dark sun). Anyway recent comic where we do get KC squinting very hard about this Moon's growing issues about Old Moon. And we know me. Immediate father figure KC sitting there like 'Oh not another one'. A small tidbit of a thought cause I don't know what I'll do with this yet, similar with Earth and KC's comic. Conceptual but its there. Me remembering canon and going 'hmnnn i know its written as it goes but would've been interesting for THEM to have a talk.'

[sukibenders]

When other Yellowjackets fans, majority who are poc themselves, talk about how weird and frustrating it is that the writers introduced a random yte character and gave them a storyline when there were two (technically three but they killed off Lottie even when there was an opportunity for more) woc, who have been around since s1, that could've fit the mold instead (like Mari) and have actual personalities outside of building up/being the lapdog for another character. Or how often times many of the, limited, poc characters are often either treated poorly and killed off, or pushed to the side (Simone, reduced to the disposable black girlfriend trope and is nearly killed by her partner because she's in the way of a ship; Travis, since s1, had his trauma dismissed or ignored and was overly hated but no one talks about how he was SA'd by the girls he's now stuck with on top of having to eat his brother and not be able to grieve over it). How Taissa's whole storyline is just revolving around Van even with all the potential, especially given she's fighting to be free from her own mind, how Lottie's mental illness is treated so poorly as if it's not the butt of a joke then it's met with heavy criticism (and the only time she is met with sympathy for it, it's through the lens of a yte character embodying her and having an emotional conversation with her father). How you can have all of these reasons (and more) for being annoyed by Melissa's character or the direction of the show, and be met with #those fans downplaying these concerns, or just being overly antagonistic just because they find yte character #243 entertaining so obviously these conversations don't have merit. But this fandom has always had an...."interesting" way in which it discussed the poc characters on the show, so I'm not surprised.