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urfavoritemistake · 6 months ago

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listen okay. eddie fender is probably the best alternative that they could have come up with and i give props for that.

but i was going to not like any alternative. no matter what. because raymond shields is a perfect name. it's cool and evocative and heroic-sounding, it has a star wars reference in it, from the minute i first heard it in a fic i was intrigued. "raymond shields?? who is that??? 👀"

and then you find out the name belongs to this kinda-pervy doofus and it's hilarious.

but then!!! towards the end of aai2 when miles is really backed into a corner and he gives him some inspiring words and tells him his dad would be proud of him...i feel inspired. he totally earns the cool name.

it's the perfect name and anything less than perfection for my boy was gonna disappoint me.

#aai2 spoilers #kind of #raymond shields #eddie fender #i know the reasons they couldnt just use the fan names. i dont blame janet tsu or the rest of the localizers i just dislike copyright law #funny story my friend thought seb was gonna be my fav aai2 character but then. nope. uncle ray #seb has a great arc while admittedly ray doesn't change much but i adore what he represents for miles' arc #he represents that the past is not dead. gregory lives on through those who loved him #and he offers the choice to miles to continue his dad's work if he so wishes. there is a home for him in that world #which makes it all the more powerful when miles chooses to continue prosecuting with newfound purpose #he's not doing it because it's all he has. he does it bc he truly believes in it #and ray is supportive of that! he does have a little arc of learning that miles is not some puppet of mvk

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