It’s giving conversion therapy
Just kiss already
How dare you stand where he stood
Was not expecting Jean to be so based. He is now my favorite male character
Girl it’s not like you and your dad have the relationship of the year
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as someone who loves classic literature, i really love how much it feels like each character in soulcalibur's story is influenced by the literature from the culture they come from. the japanese characters, especially mitsurugi and yoshimitsu, were probably the ones writers spent the most care with but i LOVE how much you see it in the european characters too. sophitia, cassandra, and aeon are all characters that feel like they were plucked out of a greek tragedy, and you can see so many echos of storybeats that many greek tragedies had. i guess its not hard to feel like that when the greek gods are so intertwined with their stories but still, it honestly feels so well thought out. to avoid being repetitive, im linking an in depth analysis from @laikaflash that talks about this right here
but i think my favorite example of this is raphael and amy tbh, but mostly raphael. as someone who so enjoys classic french literature, i cant help but see bits and pieces from the different stories i love laced throughout raphaels story. the fact that he was the head of his house at the beginning of his story and is in good standing with the king, but is then framed for conspiracy and has his life ruined, reminds me so much of what happened to edmond dantes from the counte of monte cristo. dantes had a much more humble beginning than raphael but still, that undeserved fall from grace at the hands of someone who was jealous of him, forcing him to be on the run from the law, i see that parallel.
then we have the fact that he adopted a little orphan girl while on the run from the law, and then was able to lie his way back to the top with the hopes of raising and protecting her, which makes me think of jean valjean and cosette from les miserables.
but i think the thing that gets me so excited thinking about this is that they chose not to give these storybeats to a character who is meant to be viewed as heroic, they gave them to someone who is objectively a terrible person. they flipped these stories from classic french literature on their heads, which i think makes it very exciting to try and speculate where his story will go from here because he as a person is such a departure from dantes or from jean valjean. it also makes me wonder what else they will take inspiration from for him going forward (minus the dracula stuff because that all feels more aesthetic than anything. then again ive never read bram stokers dracula so i could just not know what im talking about)
anyway im curious to know which other characters take inspiration from their country's classic literature. i know siegfried is literally named after a knight from legend, i know groh is supposed to be based on the knights of the round table, xiba is based on the monkey king from journey to the west, im not sure if kilik is either. but still, i would love to know about talim, about the koreans, xianghua, honestly everyone on the roster
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8/30/2023
Weekend snippets
Met up w/ friends and spent too much money on food and coffee (still worth it)
Worked on my personal statement for residency apps (I'm in denial that it's due in a month)
Took a hot girl walk, bought myself some flowers = "That girl" vibes
"That girl" vibes immediately canceled out when i somehow ripped a 10" hole in my favorite jeans 2 min after getting home :')
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A+ parents right there
Since [Fuji] was born a girl, she must be disciplined. She must learn to obey my order. But what's with her? She keeps causing trouble and argues wit me unstoppably. What a useless daughter.
Jingjai is the problem between her dad and me. Her behavior is disgusting. She's a spoiled girl. She only spends time hanging out. She doesn't care what others say about the way she dresses. She doesn't have the qualities of a lady. Everything a sucky Thai woman does can be found in my daughter.
Pailert's family members mustn't care about others. We don't show mercy or sympathize with someone who isn't on the same level as us. But Nai doesn't understand this. Someone this stupid is not different from a trash.
Hugo doesn't deserve to be my son. He shouldn't have been my son. He doesn't deserve to use my surname. If I could choose, I would exchange Hugo's life with his brother's.
[Jean]'s ungrateful. He betrayed his own dad. He should have been thrown away and dead like a stray dog.
I want [Biw] my daughter to continue being a little 5-year-old girl. I don't want her to grow up. The more mature she turns, the more she knows about things.
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I think White is the shadow class president, the one they should have had and the one they will turn to when Maki ends up betraying her classmates because her interests don't align with theirs. White is fierce and protective and rebellious, but she's practical and knows when to cooperate for immediate survival. And I'm getting the impression that they all respect her. Yes, even Jingjai. Especially Jingjai, who imo lashes out at her extra because she's disappointed that the girl who looked like the most likely friend to her ended up being not what she expected. I'm not saying White is the one they would have voted for if they had the chance to vote, because they would have voted for Nai because people see a tall dude and think leader, but they would have been wrong.
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Since you said you needed Home School to be at least a little gay: First of all, same. Secondly, I think it's likely that in such a big cast there's at least one character that's queer, especially since this is a show about abused kids, and from the flashbacks we've seen so far, every kid's abuse so far has been a different shade (ableism in Pennueng's case, sexism in Fuji's, neglect in Phleng's, etc.) so it wouldn't be out of left field if one of the kids' brand of abuse was homophobia (as you said, this is gmmtv). Do you have any theories as to which character could end up being lgbt, btw? As much as I like the idea of PhlengBiw, I don’t think it'll be either of them. My money's on Jean because there were moments where I got the vibes that he might be into Hugo but idk. What do you think?
I did absolutely say that Home School should be a little gay and I would not be surprised if one of the characters was, in fact, queer to add homophobia to the list of parental issues.
Now, as to which character... I could see Jean. Honestly, he's perfectly likely. I'd rule out Mek or Mork because I'm fairly sure their issue is going to be their parents pitting them against each other actively
But active theories beyond 'sure, could be him'? No. I don't have anything active yet because a) I feel like I need more time with some of these characters to make predictions and b) I want it to be Tibet because he's already one of my favorite characters and I would love that for him.
I also don't really suspect it'll be Biw. Whatever her issue is, I suspect it has more to do with her bows and sometimes more childish choices than her sexuality but that is just a guess. But, pfft, don't let that stop you. Never let canon stop you from enjoying a pairing.
So... to be clear that I don't really have a strong prediction yet is to be clear that I don't. But I could see Jean or Tibet or could be Biw! Lots of choices remain and a lot of that depends on how the story is handled.
But I do really strongly suspect that we will get homophobia from at least one set of parents. Because it is GMMTV and it fits in the theming they're doing with each set of parents having a different issue with their perfectly amazing child.
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Why is Jean’s backstory (and character as a whole) so underdeveloped compared to the rest of the characters??
He’s the only character that we didn’t see have a conversation with his parents in ep 10, we only saw the aftermath 🤨
Like is there gonna be a plot twist regarding his character or was Indy busy during filming or something idk 😭
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