#i have a real bleeding heart for complex romantic relationships and it doesn't really get more complex than being in love with your brother

[cannibalisam]

No question, just showing my love for this blog. It's nice whenever you find someone who's actually talking about the canon instead of some twisted up fantasy of theirs, or making too radical takes that change the original material as much as anything (like the ones against John or even Dean I see in many Samgirl blogs).

hey, seriously thank you so so much for saying this 🩷 i honestly love spn and the canon (for the most part, at least. i mean everyone's got their gripes, of course) so i always try to be as accurate as possible when i talk about it and base my takes in reality as much as possible! i'm super glad that comes through 😌 i just really wanna make sure i don't misrepresent what these characters and this story is about, y'know? it means a lot to me that you get that!!

[goldyluna]

For the ask game :3

Safalin from yttd, Toriel from Undertale and/or Fluttershy from mlp :3

Oooh, great choices (but so hard too)

May contain spoilers!!!

SAFALIN

How I feel about this character: she is so interesting!!! I hope we can see more of her and about her! She is kinda hard for me to describe, she is so... unclear (for lack of a better word). She loves science and she does more of those things for her own satisfaction, but she is weird in my opinion.

All the people I ship romantically with this character: I like seeing Safamiley content, but I don't really ship them myself. They are so cute tho! I just think Safalin is too awkward for any relationships and too absorbed with her own research to even look for anything romantic. Or to not see it as an opportunity to study more about people. And Miley lost her fiancé and I think she would still be grieving, seeking a revenge. Not really wanting a new partner. Eventually some hookups as a way to release bottled-up emotions or as a study, but I still am not sure.

My non-romantic OTP for this character: I see her and Miley as badass lab partners! Just think about all the things they could do. I just think they are cool.

I also like her interactions with Sara and Gin. Ready to help but still careful. She knows she is an enemy in their eyes but still leaves a way for them to get help from her if they need it. She is kinda creepy with how she is fascinated with her own machine, but she is just really passionate about science, I guess.

(It really makes me laugh when she gives Alice food and he is "forced" to eat it lol)

My unpopular opinion about this character: Dunno if I agree with it in 100%, but I think it is an interesting take? Maybe Safalin isn't human. It would be great if she was! That would make sense for her and Miley to be real and not dolls. She also bleeds, she shows us her healing medicine by cutting herself. But in russian roulette at the beginning the dummies bleed too, with green blood. If she was a medical doll, she could have the function to bleed, she could be built differently and be filled with fake blood. But would medicine work the same on a doll's "skin"??? It is made from different material in the end (I think). Gosh, I made myself doubt everything lol. Either way, we don't know if it is important, a thing that Nankidai forgot about or something else. Well, all this yapping for me to just yap, because I just theorize more than say any unpopular opinion... But I can't think of anything else, so please take my unrelated thing for this one <33

One thing I wish would happen/had happened with this character in canon: I want to see more of her backstory. I think it would be so cool to know more about her motives, about herself and her story.

TORIEL

How I feel about this character: to be honest, I have mixed feelings about her. She, of course, is a good character. She just isn't my type of character. It would be nice to analyze her more, to see with what she struggles the most. Because she is a complex character with a lot on her shoulders and with a heavy heart. A lot happened in her life and she did things she thought were the best. I don't agree with some of her ways or behavior, but I can understand where she is coming from. She lost a lot of people she held dear to her heart, it changes people. It destroys them from the inside. And Toriel isn't any different. She just tries her best and I admire her for not giving up. But there is still something that doesn't sit right with me, but I can't catch what. I think it is a me problem, tho, not Toriel problem.

All the people I ship romantically with this character: no one. I see her searching for her own peace in life. She wouldn't want to go back with Asgore, they are not meant to be together in Undertale or Deltarune. I love seeing pre-Undertale stuff where they are still together and happy. But I think the separation is really important.

I think the ship with Sans is somewhat canon????? At least it is hinted in Deltarune and all the joke-flirting shows it too. But if I am being honest, I am not entirely a fan either. I mean, it doesn't mean I don't like seeing stuff with it and I really think it is cute.

But personally I stay with independent Toriel. She needs time and all the non-romantic love from other people. And maybe someday she will find someone new, maybe she will forgive Asgore and give him another chance (in the end, it worked at the beginning, but sometimes things just don't work the same as before), maybe she would be with Sans or she would decide to go with Self-Love route. Everything is nice and possible.

My non-romantic OTP for this character: I like a lot of her interactions with others. I love her being the Caretaker of the Ruins, that means every monster in the Ruins trusts her and cares about her at least a little. I like how she still worries about Frisk even when she left the safe place. And I adore the joke language she has with Sans.

My unpopular opinion about this character: I think that me not liking her very much is the unpopular opinion? I know she has her own reasons, but she is so sharp sometimes. If she hates, she hates with her whole body and doesn't forgive. And if someone is purely good in her eyes, they can't do anything wrong. I think she is hypocritical. She doesn't have to be rational all the time, but she is shown as a reasonable person (or I have the feeling she wants us to see her like that), but she is really petty. Again, it is nothing wrong to not like some people, to have our own opinions and to do things our own way. It is okay to make mistakes and acknowledge them. But it is also important to listen to people and understand them even if we still won't like or forgive them. Everyone has their own reasons. There isn't always only one person that is guilty, it is a group effort. It is really easy to connect every bad thing that happened to one person.

She also is a little too much for me. Maybe a little too caring, a little too suffocating. But yeah, she has a massive trauma. She has a massive fear of letting go, of being abandoned by another one of the innocent ones. They remind her of her own children that she lost.

She is such a tragic character. And I understand her. Me not liking her doesn't mean I hate her, I just don't resonate with her. It is so interesting to go inside her head and see how she sees things. She is really a complex and important character. A really motherly monster full of warmth and love.

One thing I wish would happen/had happened with this character in canon: I want all the souls to show themselves to her and hug her and to tell her it wasn't her fault. I would love to see her with Chara and Asriel. And I would like her to know who Flowey is and to think about how she treated him in this form. It would be interesting to see her dilemma about what to think. (please, I sound really cruel, but I really don't hate her. I swear!)

FLUTTERSHY

How I feel about this character: she was my favorite from the very beginning. I looked at her and said "yes, you are mine now" and she was for many years. I still love her and is my favorite. But now I also love Rarity (so now I have two mlp characters I kin). Fluttershy was so me and so pretty.

All the people I ship romantically with this character: Discord and Rarity.

Fluttercord is canon! I think they look cute together. A flower fairy and a man (lol). She makes him so much better. This ship is literally the epitome of "I will fix him". Well, I think they complement each other. They can be the best version of themselves together.

The ship with Rarity is more of a self-indulgent one. I just went "oh, my two fav characters? now kiss" and it stuck with me. It kinda became an inside joke with me and my friends that Rarifluttercord are parents of my sona because Luna(rium) is the Goddess of Chaos, can shapeshift and the rest is like me (likes fashion, art, animals, is shy and creative). And she (I?) kinda looks like a mix.

At the beginning I LOVED Flutterdash. I shipped only them and was so obsessed with them. But I don't really like Rainbow Dash as much now. I still am not opposed to this ship, but it is so much lower in my ranking.

My non-romantic OTP for this character: her with all her friends, but with Pinkie Pie the most. I dunno why, I just love the vibes of them.

My unpopular opinion about this character: She has the full right to be angry and disappointed in Rainbow Dash. With the leaving her alone after she fell and when she exchanged her services for a book. I think it was really dumb.

When they were kids, they had different goals, but Fluttershy really needed Rainbow Dash. Something could happen to her when she fell. And in the end, they were friends again later. Fluttershy had her animal friends and depended more on herself.

I know that the fair episode with exchanging her for a book was supposed to be a lesson for Rainbow Dash. She was so blind she only saw her own needs and was ready to sacrifice a best friend for them. What a Symbol of Loyality! Everyone makes mistakes and it is great to learn from them. Everything was good at the end. But it still doesn't sit right with me that it was so easily forgiven.

One thing I wish would happen/had happened with this character in canon: uhhhhhhhhh, this thing I wrote in the unpopular opinion? I also have an AU (that is only in my head) that the damage could not be undone and she went away as the caretaker (of course with her own will). She lived happily training dangerous animals and maybe one day, after so many years, she would visit Ponyville to meet with some people that tried to have contact with her <33