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Interesting and, in my opinion, often overlooked thing about Hiccup is how he's like, not really a compassionate person by default. It was learned, not an innate trait like it seemingly was with Valka.
From things said in the first movie, we can presume he's always had a fairly intense interest in dragons, but it was solely with the intention of killing them ā and very stubbornly his way at that, considering he hadn't even read the Book of Dragons yet ā and it kind of makes sense considering, he's likely desensitized to violence with how often their village was repeatedly burnt to the ground then rebuilt. Like he got excited there was a raid, completely one-track minded on his plans to shoot something down for his own benefit with no regard for the danger everyone (and himself) was in (and yes! This is somewhat selfish, but he was also a child.) Again, a lot of people overlook the fact that while he was insecure about it, alienated by his peers, and looked down upon by adults, Hiccup is still a viking ā or at least was raised as one. He still very much held the same, core dragon killing beliefs every one else on Berk did. The only thing that set him apart was his inability to follow directions due to his unwavering obstinacy when it came to doing things his way.
He had every intention of killing Toothless upon finding him, only changing his mind after seeing the dragons fear and realizing they're both trapped by circumstances outside of their control, and even then had no plans of seeing Toothless again after freeing him. He thought he lost his chance at killing a dragon, after uaving the realization he just didn't have the heart to look an animal in the eyes and take its life, he was fully prepared to return to his mundane routine of ignoring what adults want him to do in favor of his own, ironic and futile attempts at making his father proud.
He's never had any kind of 'natrual' connection with dragons, it was something he stubbornly worked towards. Like I said before; he was as set on killing one as any other person on Berk, I just think he had an easier time accepting they were wrong due to spending most of his life as an outcast.
He only went back to find Toothless after his first attempt at dragon training, it was with no intention to get closer, more of an almost childish curiosity, a fascination that grew out of hand, especially after Astrid yelled at him and forced him to confront what he was doing with the question: 'Whose side are you on?"
I know Forbidden Friendship is the moment we all talk about, but I don't think Hiccup and Toothless had any kind of solidified bond until they flew together, and from Toothless' point of view, the realization that Hiccup had now gone beyond just brief fascination and was actually invested enough to help him fly again.
And even then it wasn't until he met that Terror he realized that Toothless wasn't just a one off thing, that most dragons won't attack pointlessly unless pushed to. And even then his relationship with them is still very flawed, and remains that for a long time; I know we're mostly talking about movie Hiccup here, but would the 'do-no-wrong dragon whisperer' that some people act like he is really have trapped that Skrill in a glacier because it was the easy way out? (In his defense he was like sixteen and at least realizes it was pretty fucked up when he was older and did his best to fix things)
It took time for him to get to be the so called 'peace keeper' he is as an adult (though he always seems to prioritize dragons over people, especially Toothless which is a really interesting and fitting flaw but I digress).
tldr; Hiccup was kind of a selfish, maybe even insensitive kid in the beginning, his compassion took time to develop. I feel like people too often forget that, one of his best traits wasn't an innate thing; it was something he worked for.
#hes very flawed and i love it#sorry this like devolved and got rambly as it got longer#also. yes he has autism...a lot of this is very autistic child behavior.#httyd analysis#i think?#hiccup haddock#hiccup horrendous haddock iii#toothless#httyd#how to train your dragon#hiccup analysis#hiccup and toothless#moth.txt#deyas dragons
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I'm a doctor, not a miracle worker.
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#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wen ning#wei wuxian#wen qing#jiang cheng#Truly Massive disclaimer here: I am a Jiang Cheng enjoyer. I like his character. I enjoy that he is very flawed and volatile.#This episode of the audio drama has a lot of great breakdown scenes featuring JC - and they all deserve a feature.#But underlying this comic is a small meta comment of 'ah man I have too many comics of JC just wailing sadly'#My goal is to draw 6-8 comics per episode - I sometimes have to truncate and cut good scenes out.#Especially when a large majority is just different flavours of trauma and toxic relationships to your self-worth.#I would also like to make a note here that just because you lose the ability to do something that is very tied to your core identity-#-does not mean your life is over. It will feel like the end of the world. It will send you into a spiral of grief. It will hurt so badly.#Sometimes we do not realize how tied up our identities can be in certain things until we are cut loose.#You don't lose yourself. I promise the pain will fade in time. I promise you will find other things to tether you. I promise you will be ok#Life moves forwards. Time moves forwards. You move forwards.#Ego death just means an opportunity for ego rebirth. You are never committed to being the same person forever.#To wrap this around to JC: Yeah I love the twist with the core transfer but man I would have loved to see JC accept the loss.#Obviously it happens for a reason (story) but I can have my AUs. I can have these 'what-ifs'.#described in alt text#I'm trying it out! *please* give me feedback - I want to eventually Add image ID to all of these comics one day
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one of the things that continues to strike me on reread is how much the character of Darcy, and Austen through him, finds Mr. Bennet dead. And how much Elizabeth, in growing and changing and discarding her past blindness, has to move past her way of seeing her father and thus of seeing reality, because the two are connected! Darcyās letter exposes her fatherās flaws to Elizabeth in a way sheād never been able to see before. Most especially the way his laziness and neglect of his own gifts have hurt his family and that ultimately he doesnāt. care. Not enough to change. It literally says that she comes home from Hunsford and tries to laugh at her sistersā and motherās folly (the way she used to; the way her father has taught her to by example for her whole life) and she canāt anymore! It sticks in her throat. She is grieved by the failures that she sees in him, all the more so because she IS his favorite and she loves him! And the thing about Mr. Bennet is he never changes. The Lydia/wickham situation exposes to him sharply his own conduct and the consequences and he feels it! Because he is neither stupid nor unfeeling. But he, like everyone, has free will. And he chooses not to change when the opportunity presents itself. He even jokes about how quickly his feeling bad will pass and how soon everything will go back to normal, to his laziness and his selfishness. He is set in his ways and he serves as a contrast to Elizabethās personal journey because he embodies a version of a person she could have become and was in danger of becoming if her only goal at all times was to laugh at and judge people from the sidelines.
#pride and prejudice#Iāve always loved his character because he IS funny and he is iconic!!! and his love for Lizzy is touching!#heās not faking it.#but he is so flawed. a man of taste a man of ability a man of judgment.#a man who could and SHOULD have set a different tone for his children and chose not to!#and they SUFFER FOR IT#their house is a divided one. and every child feels the pain of living in a house where the parents neither respect each other#nor are on the same team#there is a crack running through their house for this reason and itās how Lydia (and Kitty) came to be so neglected!#who is going to discipline them or guide them? certainly not Mr. Bennet!#heās so important to teach too. because the boys LOVE HIM. of course!#and are always very struck by his failures and laziness once I point it out#and yeah Darcy one of the only people who can expose him. because Darcy is putting in the work a man should be doing#Darcyās house IS in order. his love is active and protective. he is fulfilling his role!#Mr. Bennetās gifts are so extraordinaryāthe wit. the insight into human nature. honestly the capacity for wisdom#but he likes his library. he likes enjoying himself more than he likes doing his duty#as either a father or a husband#he does fail Mrs. Bennet! I have compassion for her there#anyway I love to think about this: something no version I have ever seen has ever fully explored#but man is it on the page#yeah yeah sorry for all the words. teacher off duty etc.
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Iāve discovered my favorite genre of Bagginshield art is where Thorin is a lovesick idiot who is Losing It and Bilbo is unbothered or oblivious to Thorinās suffering LMAO
#thorin oakenshield#bilbo baggins#bagginshield#if anyone has more please send it to me I have like four rn#I know I made a post a while back talking about how I wish there were more posts that focused on each of their lives outside of each other#and I still stand by that but I also canāt deny the fun in a Important Dwarf like Thorin turning into an idiot around Bilbo#tbh this works even platonically. this guy has friends bc heās lucky not bc heās actually friendly#so I can imagine becoming friends with Bilbo is like āfuck now I have to be nice bc he WILL actually leave. uh. oh godā#love men who are grouchy and offputting <3#and Bilbo is oblivious not as a flaw but bc heās just not wired that way and heās just accepting that Thorin is weird#bc he has no basis of which to assume he isnāt just Like That sometimes same way the dwarves donāt know shit abt hobbits#and itās not as like. Bilbo being extremely innocent either heās just not thinking about it LMAO#and Bilbo Also doesnāt have a ton of friends (different reasons but he IS also grouchy and petty) and heās just ā?? okā#theyāre both fucking stupid and everyone around them is dying and in anguish#I particularly enjoy when a character who is emotionally constipated and stoic and whatever just starts losing it#not even necessarily in a sappy or angsty way just. those emotions gotta come out eventually#so for a guy like Thorin who takes himself seriously and is very closed off emotionally itās fun to just imagine that facade cracking#meanwhile Bilbo is just like āyou ok??ā#Bilbo himself has some emotional issues so itās double the entertainment
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suggestive monster stuff under the cut
i havent posted art in almost a year and this is what i decide to break the ice with hi
go big or go home amirite
#as u can see#ive been very busy#every day i stray further from gods light#there is no god#there is no light#so i recently read a soul to keep which then inspired me to read ancient magus bride#and i realized i love wolf skull shaped boyfriends š¤·āāļø#it is what it is#these guys are my own characters bc i got so inspired that i started writing a thing#then i got inspired to draw a thing#and here we are#uh what do i tag this#lucilla#tenebrarius#he looks scary but hes a sweetheart#i promise#he eats the occasional human (in the food way) but thats not his fault#everyone has flaws#and lucilla has big ears and i wanna squeeze em#monster fucker#teratophillia#terato#monster x human#tags be wild#my art
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listen i know we all love steve ācompletely ignorant of queer culture to the point that bisexuality is a surpriseā harrington being roasted and educated in turns by robin and eddie, yadda yadda, good stuff. i read āthey made a horror version of rocky?ā in a fic recently and cackled. also a big fan of āhe knew he was bi from the start and just never talked about itā as a trope, love it excellent well done
but what about steve who realizes after starcourt that the most important person in his life now has this thing thatās a major part of her life that he knows nothing about, and what if he fucks it up? what if he says something ignorant or rude by accident, and hurts her? what if he loses her because he didnāt know the right thing to say? what if he canāt keep her safe because he doesnāt know what to look out for? absolutely fucking not, this steve says
and listen sheād never say anything, because she can tell that he can tell how much she likes teasing him and teaching him things, so he plays dumb, and she thinks itās very sweet. but she notices when the zines she keeps under her bed that she buys at that one secret bookshop in indy when she can sneak away on family trips start going missing, always one at a time, and replaced in a few days with another disappearing. and she finds the new ones he must have gone to buy the weekend she was at her auntās house hidden in the back of his closet when she goes to steal one of his sweaters. and she notices when he slips more of her queerer movie recommendations into his personal take home pile rather than the movie night stack when he thinks sheās not looking.
she doesnāt notice when he drives to indianapolis after she tries to explain to him why she canāt just ask out a cute girl, tries to impress on him the fear attached to every moment of attraction that he simply has never had to feel, but later she finds a crumpled receipt from a diner in one of his jacket pockets when sheās looking for his keys, and the address is across the street from the bar the gorgeous woman at the bookstore told her about, the one she memorized the address of but hasnāt worked up the guts to think about visiting, and she knows he must have gone looking for a place like that, must have been trying to understand, must have been scoping it out to make sure it was somewhere she could feel safe, after she told him she never had.
so when eddie nearly pops a blood vessel when they clock each other and she mentions that steve is the only person sheās ever come out to before, her hackles come up. because she gets it, she does, heās only known king steve until recently, so it makes sense that he would be afraid, be concerned for her safety.
but steve is her person, and no one- no one- has ever made her feel as protected or as cared for as he does. no one has ever tried as hard to understand her, no one has ever put so much work into making her feel safe and seen and loved. and she thinks maybe even if no one else ever does, thatās ok. because she has steve, and more importantly steve has her, and that means no one gets to question his ally credentials in her presence without a dressing down to remember, no matter how well they mean or how recently they helped save the world.
(and maybe sheās not as surprised as she could be when he figures out bisexuality all on his own, because sheās been reading all the same pamphlets he has, after all. and sheās seen the way he looks at eddie, i mean come on. maybe no one else has noticed, but then, nobody knows steve harrington like she does.)
#stranger things#steve harrington#robin buckley#platonic stobin#steddie#(if you squint)#this got away from me#i just really love love giving steve a bit more credit yk?#like yes heās very stupid and he has a history of being self absorbed#and we love that about him#heās very flawed and that makes him interesting#but i really feel like one of his defining traits is his need to be useful to the people he loves#combine that with his abandonment issues and i really feel like he would be scared of fucking up and losing robin#and yeah he would play dumb like he does with dustin and d&d#but i donāt believe he knows nothing about d&d after all this time and i donāt believe he would let himself know nothing about queer culture#iām just so so attached to the idea of steve who knows that teasing him for being dumb is his friendsā love language with him#so he pretends to be dumber than he is so they have chances to explain things to him#also stobin sharing clothes is so so so important to me just putting that out there#anyway i just think theyāre neat#my writing
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Small but significant character moments that I actually really adore are from both the times we see the boys as tots. There is a reoccurrence that happens in both of them that I find so incredibly interesting.
For the turtle tot short, Splinter leaves the boys with weapons. In the short, Raph is the one who suggests they do āwhat Lou Jitsu would doā and Leo is the one who takes point when Splinter comes back to reprimand them. Leo, in taking point, is the one to defend them and get Splinter off their tails.
And then, in the flashback regarding the Kuroi YÅroi helmet, Raph is the one who grabs and throws āSkullyā as a way to replace their missing ball which breaks it into pieces, but Leo is the one who speaks for the group and rushes into action to fix the teapot.
I love this for multiple reasons, but the biggest are how it shows that Raph has always been inclined toward the bold and fun and making the plans to include his brothers in what he loves and believes theyād love, whereas Leo has always been inclined to be the āFaceā of the group and shoulder the attention even if itās potentially negative all while coming up with on the spot attempts to fix the situation.
#rottmnt#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#rottmnt raph#rottmnt leo#rise Raph#rise leo#I really do love this bit of character writing a ton#again itās so small but like this is consistent!#little Raph just wanted to have fun with his bros š#Leo immediately coming in with the save both times (and more - remember Bug Busters?)#I really love too how none of them pointed fingers like#it was Understood that Leo would speak for them#listen thereās a reason Leo is the Face Man and itās NOT just because heās got a pretty face#he can talk both himself and his fam out of situations and I wish we saw it even more because itās amazing to witness#circling back to Raph his bold nature is something I ADORE about him but I donāt see it brought up a lot which makes me so sad#like this boy is a RAPHAEL he is bold!!#and itās cute too how the other bros immediately go along with it too#imo the Raph in these tot flashback is the same Raph that glues them all together as a bonding exercise#side note but damnā¦Leo saves them from punishment in the tot short and immediately gets jumped š#but yeah man I think a Lot about the little dynamics between the bros and how those dynamics could have first came into being#Leo being the face of the team and having been it since childhood-#-makes all the moments of immediately choosing to sacrifice himself when HE royally messes up all the more notable#if itās one bro or the whole group individually heās more chill about it but often still lets himself be the talker to get them out of it#he will do his damndest to get his brothers and himself out of trouble but once theyāre in it heās in the front with a smile#his own safety be damned#Raph is actually the same in that respect - heāll jump into danger fists first but all bets are off when a brother is in danger#and like how Leoās been the face - as the eldest Raph has been the de facto leader of sorts#heās the one who is shown to make up their games! and I think thatās very cute#anyway their clashing in the movie is so interesting for a lot of reasons but one of them is that it shows how-#-even a longstanding dynamic like Raph and Leoās thatās WORKED for so long is still susceptible to flawsā¦and to time
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#my stand in#my stand in the series#my stand in ep3#up poompat#mingjoe#thai bl#bl drama#ming: is a toxic b*tch#me: upppiiiiiieeee š©š„¹š«¶š»#i have so many thoughts about this show i cant even put them all into words lmao#ming is the reddest of all flags but ON GOD hes a good character#idc what anyone says#deeply flawed characters who are well written? my jam#sign me up#and Up is doing so well#so is Poom#I'm very pleasantly surprised#my heart breaks so much for Joe my pookie bear :(#he deserves so much better#also these flashbacks are giving me all the Gene flashbacks and im not okay š#but yeah this show is everything#im so impressed by how theyre telling these stories#every character is on point even the bad ones#good storytelling even better cast#I love it#A+
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I disagree with Narrator in a very fundamental and philosophical level, but you know, even if I agreed 100% with his worldview and the reality he wants to bring about, Iād still think heās wrong for taking matters into his own hands and changing THE VERY FABRIC OF REALITY affecting people in the entire universe, simply because HE thinks he knows what best for the world.
Likeā thatās why I find him so fascinating, itās not only the fear of death or disgust towards the very concept of change (tho that is very funny and interesting in its own right), but the utter arrogance to champion himself Savior of the World without EVER considering that maybeā just maybe, people might not agree with what he plans to do.
Like. Hubris indeed, and he even has the gall to say, āyou can still do what you must and kill herā when we call him out on it. Like. Wow. I want to study this guy under a microscope.
#love how heās like. a perfect example of a greek story protagonist#with a fatal flaw that cost his life in exchange for an outcome he wonāt even *be there* to witness even if it works out#while I find what-ifs where Echo grows beyond his original conception and the person he originated from interesting enough to want to#explore it#I also very much LOVE his role as this tragic character whose fate was already decided before the game begins#slay the princess#stp narrator#the narrator#stp meta#sal rambles
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Watching the HOTD fandom turn in on itself and I'm just here, enjoying my flawed, complex, glorious middle-aged couple who just love one another:
#she's both fond and exasperated and thoroughly unimpressed and totally in love with him#and he's looking at her like she hung the moon#which is basically the usual dynamic#rhaenys: i'm being serious#corlys: you're being AMAZING#also - yes i know about his āsinsā and yes he was an arse for leaving her#and yes she asked the impossible of him in a very emotional situation#this is what i mean by complex and flawed#they still ADORE one another though#house of the dragon#hotd
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See the reason why Wifies getting chunk banned hurt so much is because how you donāt even realize how much of a constant heās become for Parrot. Heās always right behind him, helping solve puzzles and making jokes. Itās Parrot and Wifies. Them. And when theyāre pitted against eachother itās different and frightening, but itās still them, they still have a plan to win, together.
But then suddenly itās Wifies vs A Secret. Versus the thing Parrot wants so bad, and heās already begun to take Wifies presence for granted. See Parrots fatal flaw is he wants knowledge, he need to know. And sure sometimes it may be for good, to protect the server, or just himself, but he craves the knowledge. And he knows himself if he doesnāt get what he wants to know now, heāll regret it.
āItās all yoursā and Parrot does regret it, even before he knows the Secret, he regret it as he stares blankly at the telescope. And in a way, itās sort of ironic that thereās no secret, because it symbolizes what Parrot has realized too late- there is no secret that would have been worth Wifies. And itās poetic that there is no secret after all. Parrot essentially killed his best friend for nothing. Because it is Parrots fault as much as it is Spokes. Parrot told Wifies that the secret was worth more than him, Parrot told Wifies to sacrifice himself, and he knew he would do it. It is Parrots fault Wifies is gone.
(And he knows it.)
#Also thereās something to be said about how he interacts with rek in the next video vs how he talked to wifies#sparrow speaks#AHHH WHO CARES <-guy who clearly cares alot#Uh Iām new here no spoiler please :))))#unstable universe#unstable smp#parrotx2#wifies#Sparrows soliloquy#This is how I write about characters I like btw#I love characters with very obvious flaws and parrot wants to know things#Wifies loyalty ā¦ā¦ā¦.#Itās so fucked up how parrot only had to say the word for wifies to chunk ban himself#Heās such a dog oh my god
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How did Regulus go from
Sirius' younger brother who did the thing with the locket and also he had a middle name
to
Basically the main character of my universe who's destined for a beautiful (but sometimes heartbreaking) destiny/soulmate level ship with James, and who's sarcastic and hides behind that, but truly loves very deeply when he lets people in
basically overnight in my head?
I don't even know how it happened. One day he was a side character and then I woke up and he was the main character not just of HP or the marauders but of my own brain.
#regulus arcturus black#regulus black#jegulus#starchaser#sunseeker#marauders era#marauders#dead gay wizards#regulus kinnie#Regulus is deeply flawed and i love that about him because it makes him feel very real#butt also he had absolutely no flaws and is perfect in every way#i will not be taking questions about this#god damn it why does autocorrect keep doing that
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He was just being a silly little guy!
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#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#jin guangyao#wen ruohan#nie mingjue#lan xichen#JGY's character is the zigging and zagging guy of all time#We love a little meow meow that can bite and scratch and kill you.#We also love a little meow meow that can mewl pathetically!#'He's evil now and torturing his former friend?" ZAG TIME: He's a spy and feels soooo awful about it!!#ZIG TIME: He (probably) didn't need to go that deep into the role and kill as many people as he did.#Something I really love about the sworn brother trio is how they reflect how our feelings distort our perception of others.#Lan Xichen represents how when we love/care about someone -anything they do can be endearing. They aren't manipulative: they are clever.#Its less about rose tinted glasses and more about reframing every look you get of them. The constant justifications you make for them.#They just need a space to be loved! āThey care for me so I will stand by them no matter what to show them I'm there for them!ā#While NMJ represents how when you dislike someone - Everything they do is an affront or proof of their foul character.#Everything is a sign. Everything is 'proof' they are just as awful as you want them to be. Every 'good trait' is twisted.#The problem is that most people are just human. They are flawed and they are capable of good and bad things.#Meng Yao's motivations are very complex. Yet he's extremely human all the same. He isn't the saint nor the monster of the story.
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I think something interesting in the damian&danny twins/danyal al ghul au that i don't see explored,,, basically ever, is how Danny heals.
I always see his personality made more similar to Damian's, which does make sense bc of his altered childhood. But i think it's far more interesting to keep it more canonincal.
He doesn't text w proper grammar bc he rejects the strict way he was raised. He makes puns and jokes and laughs freely because he was never allowed that when he was young. He freely admits to caring about his friends and family bc that is something he can have now.
I want to see a healed Danny. I want to see an Al Ghul that actually got to leave the league, got to heal and become normal.
And it'd add a really interesting aspect to his death, and Phantom. He escaped and he healed and then he still got fucked over and lost it all.
He's right back to having to fight constantly, his friends are weaknesses that can be exploited against him, and his parents are fighting him.
Danny directly and explicitly rejecting his upbringing and taking his life back. Eating nasty burger and playing doomed and having friends and crushes like a normal teenager.
And then losing it all.
(But better to be like his father than his mother.)
#dpxdc#dcxdp#my danny posting#danyal al ghul#i just. its mostly abt the reunion and stuff and danny becoming a wayne and i think thats kinda. boring#what about danny. how does this affect HIS story. his relationship with jazz and sam and tucker.#yknow??#ALSO THIS ISNOT BAD PARENTS MADDIE&JACK. i am specifically thinking of them as they are in canon#very flawed parents who caused much damage to their children but ultimately do love them and would never vivisect their own son#...fuck i might write that if it catches my dancy again#im imagining danny as having left when he wss maybe 6-8~
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uh oh guys, hot take alert:
i think revali may have invented hand held aerial archery HEAR ME OUT- (this is a long one boys)
okay. evidence one: why the fuck would a rito shoot like that. like, it makes nearly zero sense, it would be such a hindrance to their flight and their main stake is that they can be higher than you can shoot whilst still pinging you... which revali has overcome with his gale
evidence two: tulin and the concept arts. obviously rito style archery would be held in their talons. before totk came out idk if anyone had really thought about it too much, but the developers had, as you can see in concept art (from the creating a champion book). and like, its logical, powerful, and allows for peak maneuverability. also, when in flight revali (and teba) holds his bow in his talons before switching to his wings. surely its easier to keep it in your wing (obvi ignoring the effects to flight but hes doing that anyway firing the damn thing) rather than switch back and forth- unless you were taught that way, because why would you hold it elsewhere, you need it in your talons to shoot.
evidence three: we dont see any other rito do it (...kind of). throughout botw and totk, we never see another rito flying with a bow in their hands. in totk, its mostly tulin, who holds it in his talons, but in botw the big one is teba. during the medoh quest, he actually gives *link* his bow, and therefore does no shooting in the sky. teba and harth had both tried to take on medoh before, but we never see this, and while they holds their bows in their hands *on the ground,* we dont see it.
...except for aoc (uh, spoilers?). there are two times we see a rito other than revali hold their bow in their hand for aerial archery. but it is not with any rito soldiers, either during cutscenes (the bows are only on their backs) or gameplay (they swoop down, and then hand hold bows on ground. they arent seen flying at all but thats prolly for the same reasons as botw: its very hard to code that (and so they write the lore around that fact)). the first time we actually see another rito do this, we dont see it. Its teba, as he comes thru the portal, but all we see is the arrow shot, and then him freeze frame with the bow in one wing. we dont see the bow in his hand for the rest of the fight. the second time we actually see him fighting like this, it *is* in the air, but its noticeably different to revali.
hes a lot slower, it clearly takes a LOT more effort to shoot the bow, and he only pulls off one arrow at a time. its canon that revalis bow is heavier/harder to draw, and he manages to effortlessly stream arrows whilst fucking floating midair. i think teba, forever a revali fanboy, heard of how the champion mastered his own style of archery and sought to teach himself, but lacked one key thing: revalis mastery of wind.
evidence three point five: revali could easily use his powers to hold him in the air longer/slow his descent long enough for him to fire his shots. it makes sense, really. if he can use his gale to propel him, he can sit on the updraft for a hot sec, or even curve the path to carry him along while he lines up the shot. this would mean he wouldnt need to flap as much as other rito, who would obviously need to keep flying
evidence four: revalis fighting style and his needs. revali works with non rito, obviously. he needs to be able to communicate with them on the battlefield, and they wont understand the muffled chirps if he holds his string in his beak, so he needs his mouth free to speak hylian. also, revalis main tactic is fly up with gale, shoot, fall, either shoot more or use velocity and weight to knock around opponents, and then fly back up. he often needs both feet planted firmly on the ground to get a good hold of his gale, something that is harder to do if you have a bow in the way.
also, take for example the kick he delivers link in their fight (aoc). that would possibly damage the bow, or give the opponent a chance to grab his weapon, if he held it in his talons. and to switch from feet to back is a risky maneuver during freefall, and could lose precious seconds, and then when you get back in the air you need to get it off your back again. its much easier to keep the bow loosely in your wing the whole time, meaning your free to attack melee, land and rise all while not wasting a single moment getting your next shot lined up.
so yeah, i think the rito used the talon grip for aerial archery, and would often use the hand held method on the ground for a variety of reasons (more powerful shots?, easier in some situations like hunting), but revali was perhaps the first to use hand held aerial, another reason he was one of the greatest archers ever.
#you cant fly and i cant hold a bow in my wings midair so this is the perfect middleground to#fight each other on but jokes on you i literally invented new archery to beat this flaw and im going to kick ur ass and/or teach it to you#its late rn i hope this makes sense#also from a revalink perspective its giving#idk i might go back through this in the morning and clean it up but probably not i have never done that before i always forget about it#this came to me as i was talking to myself trying to justify WHY ON EARTH rito would shoot like that when i went#āwait. have we even seen other rito do that.ā and the answer was basically not it was only one other guy#important to note that 1- those two times we see teba do it hes on vah medoh which has A LOT of updrafts and wind which would make it easie#and 2- his moveset is all very close to the ground and often doesnt involve a lot of actual flying so im choosing to be selective about it#god DAYUM i love thinking about these birds#revali#teba#harth#tulin#rito#botw#totk#aoc#loz#archery stuff#hoping a certain moot sees this and gives their opinions bc i know they know archery stuff#moss' madness
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#my posts#ramblings#jojos bizarre adventure#jotaro kujo#jojo part 3#im genuinely so pissed off that this wasnt animated#like okay fine there will be some deviation from the source material#but like this one in particular was so important and integral to Jotaro's character#YOU COULD AT THE VERY LEAST KEEP THE FACT HE WAS CONCERNED ABOUT HIS FRIEND#can i literally just make an essay on why Jotaro is so misunderstood#especially when with the context of the manga#im honestly so pissed#jojo sdc#stardust crusaders#is like really good sometimes#its flawed yeah but I love it#especially the manga
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