#i ship her with martin too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but platonically!!!!

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Tickletober Day 27: Nonhuman Parts

Fandom: Wild Kratts

Pairing: Martin and Chris Kratt (platonic)

Summary: Martin uses his creature power suit to get his brother back.

It was just a normal quiet day on the Tortuga. The group was parked in the Australian outback so Aviva could study some animals for new creature power suit disks and Koki was with her outside the ship.

Aviva took a deep breath. "This is nice. No bad guys breathing down our necks, no animals needing a rescue, no crazy antics from M.K. or C.K. It's nice just to relax and study animals in their natural habitats."

"These capybaras and kookaburras seem pretty friendly too," Koki replied as she scratched under a capybara's chin. "I'm surprised they let us get this close."

"They must recognize we're friendly." Aviva watched a kookaburra land on her shoulder. "And there's nothing around to frighten them. Just nice quiet."

"CHRIS!"

Martin's echoing shout sent all the animals surrounding the two females scattering.

A moment later, Chris came flying out of the Tortuga.

Aviva crossed her arms. "Chris, what did you do?"

The younger Kratt brother shot past. "Sorry, can't explain! Gotta run!"

Just as he disappeared into the open outback, Martin came darting out of the Tortuga. His head and shoulders were covered in some kind of green goop, and he did not look happy about it.

Koki tried to hold back her laughter. "Pfft! What happened to you?"

"Chris happened." The eldest brother replied as he ran past. "Thought it would be fun to drop a bucket of green slime on my head."

Aviva paused long enough to bite back her laughter. "That sounds horrible."

Martin paused to give her a look.

"He took off pretty fast," Koki added. "How do you plan on catching him?"

The eldest pulled a creature power disk from his pocket. "With this."

Meanwhile, Chris desperately tried to get as far away as he could from his older brother as he could. The prank had been harmless, but Martin's wrath would be very real.

The youngest Kratt paused to catch his breath. A look around revealed he was alone at the moment so Chris took a breath. "Whew! That was close."

"Chris! You get back here!" A voice shouted.

Chris glanced behind him just in time to see a blue cheetah racing toward him. The youngest screamed and immediately started running as fast as he could.

However, he only made it a foot before he was tackled by a flying blue figure.

"Oof!" Chris was pinned on his back, looking nervously up at the figure on top of him. "Hey Martin. How's it going?"

"It was going well." Martin leaned closer. "Until someone decided to drop a bunch of slime on top of me."

"Oho? Who could have done that?"

"Oh, I think I know exactly who did it."

Chris gulped. "Mercy."

"Too late." A moment later Martin gently kneaded his paws into Chris's sides and stomach.

Chris broke into laughter as he tired to squirm away. "Martihin!"

"You brought this upon yourself!"

"Noho! Cuhut ihit ohout!"

"Not until I get an apology out of you."

Chris wrapped his arms around his torso and tried to roll away. "Stohop knehading biscuits intoho mehe!"

"I'm waiting."

"Noho!"

"No?" Martin's eyes narrowed. "What do you mean no?"

The youngest Kratt shoved his brother. "Gehet ohoff of mehe!"

Martin repinned Chris. "I'll tell you no."

The youngest jumped as Martin's tail came down to brush against his knees. "Wait! Wahait!"

"What's wrong Chris?" The eldest smirked. "Weak spot?"

"UNCLE! UNCLEHELE!"

"Apologize first."

"AH! OKAHAY! IHIM SORRYHY! IM SORRYHY!"

Martin paused his tail. "For?"

"Fohor dumpihing slihime on yohou."

"Will it happen again?"

Chris grinned. "No promihises."

Martin shrugged. "At least you're honest."

While the eldest stood to deactivate his power suit, Chris sagged on the ground. "Whehehew."

Martin reached a hand down. "You okay?"

"Yeheah." The youngest took the hand and let himself be pulled up. "Ihi'm gohood. Just getting ohoveher yohou trying to kill mehe."

"Maybe next time you'll think twice about pranking me," Martin responded while yanking Chris into a noogie.

Chris shoved him back before taking off running again. "Race you back to the Tortuga!"

"Hey!" Martin immediately followed. "Cheater!"

"Can't help it that you're slow."

"Don't make me tickle you again."

"Yikes!" The youngest Kratt ran even faster.

[fearcrowz]

This question is for the funni because I genuinely wanna know.....what are your favorite ships amongst your ocs?

Ohohohoooooooo boyyyyyyyyyy! *slaps hands on knees*

I'm a weird one when it comes to ships--- I'ma gab a bit since it's been awhile since I've gotten a question òvó

If I'm feeling bored with no particular interest in a story setting, my ships are usually Elise with my fav characters! She's my favorite girl, I love drawing her as much as my dorky guys, and I love to see her with my characters or other people's characters PFF

Oswald, Sevel, my Bogeyman... or if I'm feeling toxic, her and Cain (and Reverie). I always have shipped her sorta with Felix (the doll guy), and Barnaby. She also loves strong pretty (and sweet cute) gals too. Characters like Gremory in In Between fluster her to pieces.

Story-wise, she has no ships. In Knell, she cares and loves many, but in a very strong bond that is platonic. She cares about the Orderlies, and the patients like Annie and Martin and even that darn Reginald, she cares about Ben and loves Sing, and she adores Oswald as he adores her. But there isn't love or shipping (unless I indulge in cute things), but there ARE actual love stories within Knell.

In In Between, it is also the same. Her relationship with Archeron or Parley is very tight knit. They are her guardians and she loves them both dearly but not in a make-out kinda way haha. A platonic love is her usual more common relationship!

I do have other cute ships in many stories but mainly just Elise is my favorite. She makes me happy. uvu

[colin-becher-death-countdown]

Alice Dyer and Gwen Bouchard. Thoughts?

Not sure if you mean the ship or just the characters in general so I'll answer both

Ship: Eh, take it or leave it, it's not gonna make or break anything for me. Mainly I'm a platonic relationship person over romantic relationship person, it has to have something I really enjoy for me to actively ship them romantically. That being said if them being together gets rid of the love triangle (my greatest enemy forever) between Celia, Sam and Alice I am 100% on board with their relationship.

Alice: She's great fun (very jokey) and yet a buzz kill (trying to stop curiosity killing everyone) at the same time. I've loved many very similar characters so it makes sense I'd like her character. She's super chill and yet cautious and is reasonablly frightened when crazy stuff happens. I love that she just tunes out all the talkers and has fun reading through the stuff she knows is nonsense. Her take on it better to be ignorant then curious is flawed in it's own way (there is no war in Ba Sing Se) but I love that it's the opposite to what every other OIAR employee is doing at the moment. She's also lowkey very suspicious and I always enjoy when someone is up to suspicious activity, her and Celia feel disconnected enough from say Sam and Gwen that they don't feel too much like POV characters and they always seem like they're hiding something even with an open book type of personality. Oh and a great big sister I love seeing how familial relationships are played out especially in a horror. 10/10

Gwen: I wish I liked Gwen more. I love a good bitchy women in a story, but Gwen doesn't hit my criteria in bitchy women. First she's not all that bitchy, like yeah she's a bit rude to people but I think that's the repressed middle class English upbringing, she doesn't take any enjoyment in being bitchy. Also I would make a joke about her hating Mr Bonzo and blackmailing Lena since they are my pookies, but honestly understandable and very girl boss of her to go after that promotion. In the first episode I liked everyone's character and I didn't particularly like her but she fills a crucial role in the story that would feel empty if she wasn't there. She's very wet cat coded right now and I feel bad she's been going through so much horror so soon (no one in the archive was this traumatised after 23 episodes, sorry Martin) she deserves a break. I think she'll have some sort of a redemption in my opinion of her by the time the series ends, but right now she's a character I don't feel really any way towards other than I think her character is important to the direction the story takes, also I'm holding out to see what her relationship with her family is like (especially Elias god please I hope he's her older stoner brother.) 6.5/10

Funnily enough me and a friend of mine have completely opposite opinions on Alice and Gwen it's fun to have both sides in a discussion

[ranfordgallus]

Cant even find enough fave characters to crackship with...sigh

Aviva corcovado x kratos?? THE FUCK NOT!!! Hes too old for her and aviva is...better off with koki, if we're talking about young kratos its a hard no, we've seen what he did to civilians in greece before

GOW Freya x martin kratt? I doubt she'd date a human but who do i know, i dont think their relationship would work since humans dont live like thousands of years old, most cant get past 100 and its rare for humans to even get that old too so.. plus i just dont see the chemistry

Reagan ridley x martin....nuh uh, wont work.. i mean she has brett and i also dont ship them either since they see eachother as platonic, and i headcanon reagan as aroace

Hobo eren jaeger x ....uhmmmm, idk i also headcanon him as aroace

Artemy burakh x donita donata????? I meaaaannnn...idk, im not sure what their relationship would be like, terrible..probably..not sureeee..

Skwisgaar skwigelf x donita tho? Shit...well skwisgaar IS into old women..so..

Ill just stick with martin and gwen from now........

[supernatural-ruined-my-life]

Let's unpack the last interview with the executive producer of Loki. He said it was never their intention to portray some romance between Mobius and Loki and I want to believe them... really. But I remember Eric Martin, the head writer, was very aware of the ship even before the second season was made. Then, he made a weird comparison between lokius and spirk, the mother of all the ships. So, there's no way Martin didn't know people ship Spock and Kirk in a romantic way.

But what is more funny to me is that they also say that Loki and silvye were a thing in this season... Because I don't see it. Sorry. Like , yeah maybe Loki loves her, but we never saw that Sylvie reciprocated his feelings. Like, this fucking writers aren't good at romance. I have to laugh. Even casual viewers noted that they toned down their romance. Then they were good at writing a "platonic" relationship.

And I thought this was because they're men. Like, they don't know how to write a romance (at least consciously). What a woman search in romance (sorry but even if there wasn't incest in the middle of this ship, Sylky still is the most boring ship of all the time). And above that, this season Sylvie was in the background. Like, they didn't know what to do with her. I even though maybe people above them told them to not put much of her on the screen. Like, I remember people hated the first season because it was more about her than the main character, Loki. But people loved Mobius and Loki together (and let's not forget that Kevin Feige told Eric to put Loki and Mobius in the episode 3 when the episode was leaning too much into ravvona and Victor timely).

I think they're good in "platonic" relationships because men only love men. And only want women for sex. Maybe I'm overreacting. But that's why they don't see it. They wrote a love story between Mobius and Loki, but because Mobius is a man, they can't see it.

And finally, I don't care if they aren't canon because guess what... Lokius is still the most popular ship of Loki, here on Tumblr and also in TikTok. That will haunt them forever. 🤭

And when the executive producer mentioned Loki's bisexuality I had to laugh. They don't want to piss the LGBT fans of Loki. Suddenly he remembers Loki's sexual orientation. And of course they didn't do anything with that because they don't care. They're just cishet men. 😮‍💨

Sorry, this is all over the place. And yes English is not my first language so...

[the-indie-owl]

SpongeBob SquarePants Shipping Chart (FEEL FREE TO USE)

MAJOR UPDATE (10/14/2023): Added More Characters from the Musical

For the record, I've decided to create my own official blank shipping chart of one of my Fandoms for the very first time (since there isn't much SB Shipping Charts all over online so I created my own).

I've created Two Versions in case for Half of the Fandom's POV on the Two King Neptune characters (rather if you believe they are the same Character or Not).

Here are the Two Links for Full Versions in case to use for the Better Quality.

In case if you are confused of what each of the Ship Terms for what each of the Color represents...

❤️ = OTP (A Ship that You Love so Much and it is your own Main Favorite One out of all of the Other Ships) 🧡 = Platonic (A Ship that you prefer to be more than just Personal Friends rather than a Couple) 💖 = Crack (A Kind of Ship that is meant to be either Bizarre or Funny as in a Joke) 🩷= Love (A Ship that you also Adore but not that much of a Main Favorite) 💛= Like (A Ship that you do Enjoy but rather in a More "Causal" way to say the least) 💚= Neutral (A Ship that you have Mixed Feelings or Indifferent with) 🩵= Ok (A Ship that you're completely Fine with, but don't have any strong feelings towards it) 💜= Meh (A Ship that you just don't completely care nor pay any attention to) 💙= Dislike (A Ship that you just don't agree with or just not a personal fan of, if you don't have any too much Hate of it) 💙= Hate (A Ship that you just CAN'T STAND no matter how much that you despise) 🖤= Crash and Burn (A NOTOP that you Hate so much and is your own Main DEPISE One out of all the Other Ships)

Bonus Option: 💗= Ship with OC (A Character that you personally prefer to ship with Any of Your Own Persona/Mutuals' OC) 💚= Ship in Crossover (An X-Over Ship that you prefer to ship with Any Canon Character in the Franchise with a Different Character from Another Media) 🟤= Stay Single (A Character that you don't have enough ships and would just leave the Character to be Single without being shipped with anyone)

Characters in the Chart:

(Main Show)

SpongeBob SquarePants

Patrick Star

Gary The Snail

Sheldon J. Plankton

Squidward Tentacles

Sandy Cheeks

Mr. Krabs

Pearl Krabs

Karen

Mrs. Puff

Mermaid Man

Barnacle Boy

Larry The Lobster

The Flying Dutchman

Man Ray

Dirty Bubble

King Neptune

Queen Amphitrite

Prince Triton

Squidabeth

Barry Blobfish

Nosferatu

Slappy Laszlo

Slippy

Squidina Star

Chip Plankton

Tony 

Squilliam Fancyson

Squilvia

Patchy The Pirate

Spot

Snellie

Kenny The Cat

Perch Perkins

Bubble Bass

Old Man Jenkins

Kevin C. Cucumber

Flats The Flounder

Lady Upturn

Stanley SquarePants

Sam Star

Flapjack SquarePants

Bubble Buddy

Rube Goldfish

Gale Doppler

Plankrab

Charlton Hawkfish

Boat Salesman Shark

Hieronymus Glove

Karen 2.0.

Nurse Bazooka

Lord Poltergeist

DoodleBob

Don Grouper

Sticky Fins Whiting

Dorsal Dan

Dylan

Fred

Tom

Archie

Harry

Francis

John

Nancy Suzy Fish

Nazz Mimi

Tina Fran

Henry Bart

Franco

Sheila

Vera Fishbowl

Medley Fishbowl

Evelyn

Mevis

Buddy

Perry

Horace

Sheldon

Halbert

Jennifer Millie

Charlie

Frank The Goldfish

Jimmy Gus

Phil

Molly

Clay

Don The Whale

Harold (Red Fish)

Gus

Martin/Wobbles

Scooter

Lou

Harold "Bill" Reginald

Nat

Shubie

Dave

Sadie

Abigail Marge

Patty Rechid

Norma Rechid

Nathiel

Martha Smith

Thaddeus

Billy Lime

Harv

Frank (Lifeguard Guy)

Lloyd-Rich

Cara

Paco

Sylvester

Mabel

Old Man Walker

Lonnie

Mary

Sandals

Dennis

Miss Shell

Norma Edna

Debbie

Frank

Pilar 

Frankie Billy

Dale

Lenny

Mable-Monica

Purple Doctorfish

Norton

Richard

(Movies)

-1st Movie, "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie"

Princess Mindy

Dennis

- 2nd Movie, "Sponge Out of Water"

Burger Beard

-3rd Movie, "Sponge On The Run"

King Poseidon

Queen Salacia (For those who don't know, in Roman Legends, Salacia was the Goddess of the Sea as well as the Actual Wife of Neptune (her Counterpart was Amphitrite, a Greek Goddess who was Poseidon's Wife). However, considering that the Franchise has secretly done an Alternate "Wife Swap" idea between the Consorts of the Greek/Roman Sea Gods, Salacia did appear in a Cameo of the Third Movie, regarding if it could be truly her or not. There was also a Semi-Design of Her through Concept Arts behind the Third Movie that I did found through ArtStation by 3D Developer (Michael Defeo). For those who are curious to know about the concept design behind King Poseidon's Wife in SB, here's the link that you can click on.)

Sage

Otto

Chancellor

Tiffany Haddock

(Spin-Offs)

-Kamp Koral

Narlene Narwhal

Nobby Narwhal

Kidferatu

Preda Tory

Roxy

Jimmy Blobfish

-The Patrick Star Show

Ouchie

(Musical)

Mrs. Mayor

Merlina Mermaid

Entity Punkfish

Goldfish

Fred Blutang

Bubbles

Bitsey

The Eletric Skates

(Other Media)

- Games 

Prawn ("Battle for Bikini Bottom")

Madame Kassandra ("The Cosmic Shake")

- Books

Princess Neptuna ("SpongeBob and the Princess")

Feel free to use if you like to use any version you want, either if you'd want to credit me or link my own charts in the descriptions/texts.

[weatherman667]

RWBY Shipping

Double Rainbow:  Jaune Arc x Ilia Amitola

Comes from my Firen Lhain story (Harem / No Harem)

Putting Ilia in charge of the White Fang was insanely idiotic.  She had no grasp of morality, and no leadership skills.  But, she’s a really interesting character.  So, I decided to keep her.  Blake purposefully kept her distance to not lead her on.

This left Jaune to be the one to teach, guide, and look out for her.  And it just became so magical.  So magical that I rewrote the whole story to break up the Pollinated Knight (JxRWBY) relationship.

Arkos:  Jaune Arc x Pyrrha Nikos

As one commentator pointed out, everyone loves Arkos, because everyone wants Pyrrha to be happy.  Of the canon romances, this is the only good one.  And truthfully, one of the only canon ones from the current generation.  There’s Arkos, and there’s Bumblebee, and Bumblebee is horrendously abusive.  There is Saphron and Terra, and while their relationship is good, they provide nothing to the story at all.  Their addition to the story could have been replaced by a hotel.

As for the previous generation?  Weiss’ parents are a great example of how not to parent.  Ruby and Yang had one mother who abandoned them, and another that went missing on a save-the-world mission.  Tai basically did everything he could to hold them together, and Qrow was a great cool uncle, which means he’s missing most of the time.  Ghira and Kali are excellent.  Who else has a parent?  Seriously?

Pollinated Knight:  Jaune x Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang

With one caveat, I like all of the involved pairings.

Lancaster:  Jaune Arc x Ruby Rose:  They are either incredible romantic or platonic partners.  They can simply say “Nope” to cheer each other up.

White Knight:  Jaune Arc x Weiss Schnee:  One of the only relationship is the series, even if it’s one-sided.  They also did a fantastic job of showing growth for both of the characters, so when they meet again in Haven they are very different people.

Knightshade:  Jaune Arc x Blake Belladonna:  The more I see of Blake, the more I hate her, but this is largely because she had a lot of character growth she would have to make, and never did that.  Which is where Jaune falls in, as he does go through tremendous growth, and provides moral grounding for the story.

Dragonslayer:  Jaune Arc x Yang Xiao Long:  Yang is the first person to support Jaune, and the only one to do so throughout the entire story.  But she’s also a lot more vulnerable than she lets on.  She needs someone to be strong when she’s weak, and someone to step aside when she’s strong, (and pick up the pieces).

White Rose:  Ruby Rose x Weiss Schnee:  The most adorable pairing in RWBY.  Just remember, Weiss nags because she cares.

Ladybug:  Ruby Rose x Blake Belladonna:  Diabetes, in romance form.

Checkmate:  One of the first pieces of character development in RWBY, (the team, not the story).  Often called the Checkmate Arc. Unfortunately, that’s the extent the pairing went.  But, during this arc, the interplay is fantastic.

Freezerburn:  A song of fire and ice.  Too bad for Grr Martin, it’s too poetic to not use.  The interplay of hot and cold, light and darkness, is one of the most potent feelings for Humans.

Bumblebee:  Blake Belladonna x Yang Xiao Long:  The one caveat.  v1-5 Bumblebee good.  B6+ Bumblebee abusive.  All they had to do was talk. But, I’ll focus on the good parts.  Mystery, and motion, and fire and shadow.

Green Lantern’s Knight:  Jaune Arc x Jessica Cruz

There are two things in RWBY post Haven I actually like, Weiss being thirsty for the Rusted Knight, and the fans pairing Jaune Arc with Jessica Cruz.

Black Sun:  Sun Wukong x Blake Belladonna

When this first happened in V4-5, I enjoyed it.  When it was sunk after Haven, I realized the part I liked most about it was Kali.

Anyone with Cinder

Cinder is a villain.  She’s not a woobie, she’s not sympathetic.  She might be being manipulated, but she is doing everything she can to burn the world down.  She needs to be punished, she needs to be humbled, humiliated.  She needs to repent.  If you don’t, you are supporting an unmitigated psychopath because she’s pretty.  My favourite one to do this is Jaune.

Sweet Dreams: Cinder  Fall x Emerald Sustrai

While Cinder is an unmitigated psychopath, and Emerald is her simp, this is the only good thing from any of the main villains.

Any of the other villains:

Salem:  She can be put in a good relationship with Oz if they reconcile.  And, quite frankly, this is likely the only thing that can actually stop her.  Alternatively, if you are feeling perverted, you could have Jaune use his sword to teach her the value of life and death.

Adam:  Of all of the unmitigated villains, he is the worst of the bunch.  He has zero redeemable, charitable, and sympathetic qualities.  They tried and failed to give him any.  Maybe the should have tried to give him sympathetic qualities before turning him into nothing more than an abusive ex and then killing him.  Just saying.

Hazel:  They tried and failed to give him a woobie backstory.  While he’s not as villainous as the rest, he is still willing to destroy the world because his sister died as a Huntress.

Tyrian Callows:  The most psychotic of the lot.

Arthur Watts:  Of the main villains, he’s the only one to have any real good qualities other than Cinder.  Intelligence and charisma.  Still pretty fucked up.

Mercury Black:  Personally, I find him a pretty boring character, but, of the main villains, he has the least investment, and could most easily leave and redeem himself.  The only reason he stayed is because Cinder was slightly nice to him, (at least compared to his father).

Emerald Sustrai:  She loves Cinder, and is pretty, therefore she doesn’t need to redeem herself.  She just needs to be momentarily sad for all to be forgiven.  They could have given her an arc where she realizes that Cinder won’t care for her and she needs to find her own path, but they did not.

Silent Knight:  Jaune Arc x Neopolitan

Don’t consider her to be one of the main villains, because she’s not.  She’s Roman Torchwick’s sidekick.  Roman Torchwick is a low-level criminal who made it big.  He wasn’t in it for the evil, he was in it to become a big man.  It wasn’t until he succeeded that he realized who trapped he was, and died.

This leaves Neopolitan with zero motivation to stay with the villains.  She does because plot.  She is genuinely hurt, she did help to cause Beacon, but she was not trying to.  She was just trying to do well by her man.  This makes her very easy to repent and work to be a better woman.  Who better to help her than Jaune.  She’s also a perverted bastard, so perfect for adding some spice to a fic.

Robotic Knight:  Jaune Arc x PENNY Polendina

I don’t like anything about PENNY’s resurrection and second death.  But there is a missing P from JNpR’s lineup, and she would be a perfect fit.  They are both so socially awkward that they can make an amazing couple.

Nuts and Dolts:  Ruby Rose x PENNY Polendia

I am relatively neutral about this.  Again, I hate what they did V6+ with PENNY, but it could have been handled a different way, and it would make a nice pairing.  They are lovely together, though none of the early interaction seemed especially romantic.  But there is more than enough for shippers to build off of.

[baratrongirl]

B - A pairing–platonic, romantic or sexual–that you initially didn’t consider, but someone changed your mind.

K - What character has your favorite development arc/the best development arc?

W - A trope which you are virtually certain to hate in any fandom.

B - I don't have a lot for Ace Attorney because most of its ships are very obvious. I did however discover a fondness for the very rarepair Maya Fey/Simon Blackquill after reading a fic about them. She is a spirit medium who is going to become the leader of her village, and is also obsessed with the TV series The Steel Samurai. He is a raging weeaboo and/or British man with Japanese ancestry who wields a spirit katana and wants to be a samurai. They are even the same age! They are absolutely perfect together!

K - Urgh, see, this is the thing that Ace Attorney is very bad at. The games are good at showing 50-75% of a character development arc and then giving up. Like, AA4 is all about Klavier Gavin receiving trauma after trauma, and you'd expect him to need some time to process everything that's happened to him - yet he pops up in AA5 as if nothing has happened at all. Phoenix Wright and Miles Edgeworth both have development, but even then you don't see the trauma being processed. In fact, the way Phoenix flips back to his old self in AA5 ignores all of the changes that happened to him in AA4, and seems false.

I actually think one of the best development arcs I've ever seen in a game/game series is Martin Septim in TES IV: Oblivion. He goes from being the priest of a town attacked by Daedra (TES version of demons) to the Emperor of Tamriel, willing to give his life to stop the Daedric invasion. Each time you return to Cloud Ruler Temple on the main quest, he's a little more resigned to his fate. He goes from giving an awkward speech to the Blades where he says, "I know you all want me to be Emperor, but this is very new to me" to leading a major battle dressed in the Emperor's heavy armor. When did he learn to fight in heavy armor? Before that, he's only worn priest's robes. A lot is happening to him behind the player's back, and it gives him life.

W - I agree with you about hating soulmates and Hanahaki Disease, unless those tropes are subverted. I am quite fond of the idea of "soulmates" which simply means that the person will be very important to you - not necessarily your one and only partner, but perhaps your best friend forever. And I find it interesting when people write Hanahaki Disease as a chronic illness which affects people who love too easily and deeply. I've often felt that I'm a person who does that, and it's brought me emotional pain. Why not have physical pain to go with it?

The tropes I REALLY hate though are "Pair the Spares" and "Everyone is Gay".

Ace Attorney has a juggernaut F/F ship of FranMaya which is Miles Edgeworth's adoptive/foster sister Franziska Von Karma paired with Phoenix Wright's best friend Maya Fey. But there are plenty of other options for both of those women, both F/F and M/F. I feel they get paired together despite their wildly different personalities and interests simply because Phoenix and Miles do, and I really dislike that. I don't even hate the ship! But I LOATHE the idea that they are together BECAUSE of their brother/best friend's relationship.

When the trope is subverted, and FranMaya get together years before WrightWorth, then I like the ship much more. Though I still feel that both characters have plenty of other interesting ships available to them.

"Everyone is Gay" bothers me when it's literally everyone being GAY as in exclusively same-sex relationships. Especially as three characters are about as close to canon bisexual as it's possible to be! Others have strongly headcanoned sexualities which are part of fanon (e.g. Miles Edgeworth being homoromantic demisexual and Kristoph Gavin being aromantic homosexual). But other characters are more flexible, e.g. I've seen Ema Skye written as lesbian, bi, straight, asexual, aromantic and acearo!

By all means, make everyone queer. But recognise that a trans woman might date a man, that a lot of bisexuals end up in relationships with people of different gender, that heteroromantic asexuals are still queer, and that acearo people likely don't want partners at all. And all of that is okay.

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magnus archives! for the ask game

[ask game link] YAYYYYYYYYY THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE ASK this got horrifically long so under the cut!

Favorite character: i’d love to say basira but it’s probably melanie. or martin. oh little moth…

Least Favorite character: uhhhh i love all the characters as *characters* but i love to hate elias of course. what a fucking creep they did such a wonderful job with him. 106 and 117 live in my brain constantly & forever

5 Favorite ships (canon or non-canon): FIVE? THERE AREN’T ENOUGH IN HERE FOR FIVE but it’d be what the girlfriends, jonmartin, daisira, basira/melanie, and. hm. hmmm. gertrudeagnes

— oh crap wait i keep forgetting platonic relationships are ships too, okay okay add jon & basira and jon & melanie and jon & georgie in there. not in any particular order but still

Character I find most attractive: im not even attracted to women but. daisy. i didn’t understand the fan reaction until i listened to her voice for the first time (i consumed this podcast almost entirely through transcripts) and went Oh I Get It Now

Character I would marry: georgie easily

Character I would be best friends with: jon or melanie because i love befriending haters you are all so fun

A random thought: i miss them so much. i kept expecting the transcripts to switch to “archive” for jon at some point but they never did which is probably for the best for accessibility reasons but can you imagine. i miss them so much. basira is funnier than people give her credit for. georgie is less funny than people give her credit for and i appreciate her so much for it (don’t be a Stranger!). i miss them so much

An unpopular opinion: hey did you know basira hussain is in the third most episodes total and actually has the second most scenes with jon (she had The Most, period, before martin dethroned her in s5)? did you know? anyway she should be in more stuff and i love her deeply. i also don’t think she actually had double standards for jon versus daisy per se, i think her problem was thinking that guilty people deserve punishment and therefore that daisy’s victims (criminals) were fine while jon’s victims (random people off the street) were not

— this is also why she stops daisy from killing jon in 091, because she’d met him before, he was a human being who cracked jokes, he *couldn’t* be guilty; rather than because killing people is bad

— i also think she knew deep down she was wrong for this considering how she says in the unknowing: i don’t want to hurt you. i don’t want to hurt anyone. and then in s5: of course i care! …that’s the problem

— she had to force down her compassion in order to function well as a police officer and forced herself to believe that it was the right thing to arrest people who did bad things

— reader she was incorrect

— have i mentioned i love her

My canon OTP: jonmartin and what the girlfriends

Non-canon OTP: you cannot tell me basira and melanie didn’t have something going on while jon was in his coma you simply can’t

— melanie was strong and violent and necessary and basira needed someone strong to rely on after daisy even though she could see how miserable melanie was. basira stuffed down all her emotions and became a stone figure and melanie feeling herself being overtaken by rage both aspired to that and hated her for it. they are anchors for each other but false because their usual anchors (daisy, georgie) aren’t here or wouldn’t get it. do you understand.

Most badass character: the admiral

Pairing I am not a fan of: sorry to jon.elias fans i do understand that exploring the Power Dynamics could be fun but i genuinely cannot see any romance in there whatsoever. can’t jon just hate a man in peace

Character I feel the writers screwed up (in one way or another): hmmmmmmm. not anyone in particular? i think basira’s s5 arc was kind of rushed but i’m not super mad about it. also obviously the racist stereotypes in there (the haans. i mean the haans) but in terms of main cast i can’t think of anyone

Favourite friendship: tim & sasha because i haven’t mentioned them anywhere in this ask and that is a travesty. they’re fun i hope they are kayaking happily together somewhere

[spaceofentropy]

tag game - stranger things edition

The lovely @dragonflylady77 and @harringrovest tagged me so here I am!

ride or die ship (your otp): Harringrove

most annoying ship: it's a tie between Steve/Nancy (those two don't work together in canon, they are like soap and grease, why even try to put them together AGAIN?!) and Byler (because Will deserves way better than Mike Wheeler, and he should realize it soon for his own good! T^T)

second favourite ship: Metalsandwich. There's something so fun in the ways those three interact and interconnect...

favourite platonic relationship: Stobin all the way!

underrated ship: Mungrove

overrated ship: Byler (again, free Will Byers 2023!)

one thing i would change in canon: ONE?! I get only ONE and I even have to choose which one?! How can I decide?! [Sadie Doyle voice] The utter inconsistency in how the UD works! No, Troy the little bully almost killing a kid and getting away scot free! No! El needing to be re-traumatized to get her powers back! No! Karen Wheeler noncing around unpunished! No! Eddie's stupid death! No! The rest of the party being shitty friends to Lucas again and again and him just going along with it in the end like it's no big deal! No! Nobody actually trying to pull the mindflayer out of Billy! No, just Billy's death in general!

something canon did right: quoting @harringrovest's answer, lifeguard!Billy. And Steve in that silly silly sailor outfit. Season 3 was a weird beast, but at least it gave us those two things!

a thing i'm proud of creating for the fandom PLEASE BRAG ABOUT YOURSELF I WANT TO SEE/READ YOUR ART: my metalsandwich long fic Of soulmates and colors and also my oneshots Come close and Amok which were banged out in a couple of hours each but I love a lot. And also What doesn't kill you makes you a monster, because writing demobat!Steve Harrington was fun as fuck! Yeah, basically I'm proud of each fic I published, thank you. And I'm also very proud of the shark glasses that led to THIS! beautiful, perfect edit by @imsodishy 🥲❤️

a character who is perfect to me (wouldn't change a thing): Billy Hargrove

the character i relate to the most and why: Billy Hargrove, because... well, personal reasons.

character i hate the most and why: Dr. Martin fucking Brenner, because he kidnapped kids, manipulated and tortured them, tortured El's mom until her mind broke, and the narrative wants us to... not hate him, not really, because after all he was right? He re-tortures and re-traumatizes El but it's for the greater good? Well, fuck that shit, fuck the Duffers and their whole writers' room, and fuck Brenner with a rusty pipe!

something i've learned from the fandom: as with anywhere else, there are lovely talented people in fandom that make great stuff, and there are also not great people (looking at you, assholes who wish harm on others because they like one character you dislike!), so the block button is your best friend. Also, squeeing in happiness at good art and fics is even sweeter when done in group! ❤️

three tags i seek out on ao3: I don't really have an answer, since I don't usually look for specific stuff; I more go with the flow or jump on fics that someone recommended/mentioned that sound interesting.

song i strongly associate with my otp/favourite character: Desire by Meg Myers is so Harringrove it hurts; and while Wolf by Yeah Yeah Yeahs is pure "Billy Hargrove after basking in Steve's love a little too long", Like You Better Dead is my favourite Billy-coded song, because, yeah, he can be as angry as he wants to be, just watch him burn!

I should tag someone, so... uh... argh! Hoping you've not been tagged, and begging preemptively pardon just in case... @salthat @destroya2005 @ariesbilly @suometar and anyone who sees this and wants to do it! :P

[secret-laughs]

OHH I FORGOT ABOUT LISA NEARLY !!!

She used to torment him (/silly) when they were younger. Lisa would find like any excuse to tickle him, her most popular being that he just hadn’t smiled enough that day. Their tickle fights are kinda one sided because John just kinda curls up when she tickles him (which is not effective at all 💀) .

I like to think that afterwards they cuddle (platonic or romantic doesn’t matter!! But I personally don’t ship them they seem wlw/mlm coded) or they hug.

Even now that they’re older and all that John still gets antsy whenever Lisa wiggles her fingers around him. Doesn’t help that Lisa talks with her hands either.

youre gonna kill me oh my fod 😭 I LOVE U FOR THIS

John most definitely curls up and it’s a thought I’ve been having for a while, and apart of me believes that he’s even too sheepish to try and get someone back in that state aha. this goes for even trying to bat off somebody’s hands if they reach a particularly bad spot

the cuddling is so cute!! I also see them as platonic!! but not necessarily in the same way as you do, but I definitely see them as friends. though I don’t mind romance haha, I’m not bothered if anybody wants to say anything relating to that

ahhh and wiggling fingers. I feel like John is the type to give her a glare if she does that (the amount of times that he’s looked disappointed within the series is so funny, such as when he was first at the martins at the door or when he looks up looking as if he’s staring daggers LOL)

[jennajaeger]

My general feelings on my F/Os' canon love interests and how I picture my dynamic with each of them:

Prince Eric (The Little Mermaid):

Eric is MY GUY. BESTIE. HIMBO EXTRAORDINAIRE. We high five each other as we pass each other in the hallway because we both have the best wife in the world. Literally the epitome of this meme:

Me: "The stars are so beautiful tonight."

Eric: "You know who else is beautiful?"

Both of us in unison: *sighing dreamily* "Ariel~"

Keyleth (Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina):

So admittedly I have not finished the series yet but as far as I can tell, Vax and Keyleth have a very "right person, wrong time" type of relationship? Like, I get it, they're always gonna love each other, they're just never going to be in a place where they can BE together? And I mean......that works for me :P I feel marginally bad about stealing her man because she's so sweet and deserves a break, precious bean, but if it works it works <3

Meryl Stryfe & Milly Thompson (Trigun Stampede):

I felt so bad the moment I started watching the show because I was like "oh god another female character I'm gonna have to throw under the bus in the name of self shipping" but honestly so far in the 23 version I read their dynamic as platonic?? And just in general, I love her <3 She's a tough little cookie; and I haven't properly met Milly yet but I just know I'm gonna love her :P girl frankly you deserve to have Nick maybe you'll mellow him out a little good heavens XD

Helen Wick (John Wick franchise):

I will always have a moment to pay homage to our lord and savior Helen Wick who died to give us the best action franchise of the modern age, girl you were a real one and rest easy knowing I am going to RIDE THE TRAUMA OUT OF YOUR HUSBAND

Tess Marshall (Barbarian):

SHE DESERVES S O MUCH BETTER OH MY GOD I mean they both do, they're stuck in this terrible movie :P In a better world I would love to be friends with Tess, and act as Keith's filter because good lord boy you're cute but you're dumb as fuck sometimes XD Also if I ever see Keith's ex-gf I'm throwing hands

Alt Cunningham & Rogue (Cyberpunk 2077):

god I'm glad these two are Johnny's exes XD I'm sure I would have liked Alt a lot more had I known her when she was, y'know, alive, but as a......tech ghost or whatever, she's not a lot of fun :P As for Rogue, she's a bitch, I KNOW she's a bitch, and I respect her for it. She DID stab Johnny in the back though and I'm not about to let her forget it.

Alys Rivers & Helaena Targaryen (House of the Dragon):

I haven't properly met Alys yet but I'm looking forward to it, I feel like I'm gonna like her :P And Helaena is A SWEETHEART, an absolute darling, I would love to sit with her and have tea while she does her embroidery and listen to her talk about anything that comes into her pretty little head because THE GODS KNOW SOMEONE HAS TO. I will also be her "dump your shitty husband" friend so fast XD Like, LOOK AT AEMOND. LOOK AT HIM. HE'S RIGHT THERE GIRL I WILL SHARE.

Anyone Dream has ever been romantically involved with and yes I'm including Hob Gadling (The Sandman):

I have nothing but love and respect for Dream's past partners (Calliope babe I'd die for you) and I just love the idea that we have like, dinner together and they all just spill the tea about the shit Dream got up to in past decades :P

Vision (Marvel Cinematic Universe):

I have no problems with Viz, he was a good man. Wanda really could have done BETTER in my opinion, but y'know, she could have done a lot worse too, so :P And thanks to Viz we have the boys, Billy and Tommy <3

Martin Blackwood (The Magnus Archives):

I don't hate Martin. He's a sweetheart. But I need him to not even BREATHE in Jon's direction, because that is MY MAN. Nothing personal :P

Mikasa Akerman (Attack On Titan):

I will meet that bitch in the FUCKING PIT IT IS ON S I G H T LEAVE HIM ALONE!!!!!!!!

[randomestroleplays]

𝔠𝔞𝔪𝔦𝔩𝔞 𝔫𝔢𝔩𝔰𝔬𝔫 ⊱⋆⊰ 𝔷𝔬𝔪𝔟𝔦𝔢 𝔤𝔦𝔯𝔩

fandom: stranger things

open to: platonic and romantic relationships with original or canon characters

content warnings: underage drinking, canon typical violence & horror, character death

It wasn’t unusual for Camila Nelson to fight with her parents, and it wasn’t unusual for her to cut through the forest to spend the night at Steve Harrington’s house afterwards.  And the night of November 6th is no different.  After a loud fight with her parents — she was spending too much time with “That Harrington Boy” and her straight-As weren’t good enough — she called Steve, letting him know that she would be climbing into his window soon.  But she never did.

Camila was used to her shortcut to Steve’s house.  It was dark, and had no path, but she knew it like the back of her hand.  Until she tripped, and woke up somewhere that she’d never seen before.  Somewhere that looked almost familiar, but decidedly wrong.  And before Camila can even figure out where she is, she’s knocked onto her back by a young boy falling on top of her.  With no idea where they are and no one to call for help, with nothing but darkness and monsters hidden within the terrifying unknown, Camila Nelson makes herself a promise: Will Byers is going to make it home alive, whatever it takes

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faceclaim: zoey deutch

age: 16

ships: steve harrington

friends: carol perkins, tommy hagan, nancy wheeler, jonathan byers, will byers

affiliations / allies: the party

enemies: martin brenner, hawkins lab

alignment: chaotic good

enneagram type: type 8 — the challenger

soul type: the warrior

mbti: isfj-t — the defender

Hogwarts House: gryffindor

Element: earth

Trope: team mom

Theme Song: this girl is taking bets, thea gilmore

Quote: i am someone who did not die when I should have died

[helblazer]

ALINA ALVAREZ

created using @ummmmandy’s picrew!! sorry the collage cut the watermark out hsbdbdhdh i am not, however, sorry for the amount of outfits i made its so much fun.

stats: al, ali - she/her pronouns - panromantic asexual - 5’2’’ & 121 lbs - born june 12th, 1987* (cancer) - slytherpuff - warlock - the sun - enfj - 6 - sanguine-choleric - neutral good.

short backstory under the cut.

alina is the daughter of kamala maharaj (who was a researcher at m.i.) a british indian woman whos classified as a thrill-seeking genius. i affectionately think of her as the mad scientist type.

& her father is luis alvarez, an latin american paranormal investigator, like a real one, not one that does web shows and all that. he’s puerto rican and able to talk to ghosts. his entire family has some kind of psychic ability.

alina has the ability called psychometry where she can learn things about and item or person through touch.

luis is modeled after my irl mom, who’s puerto rican & a medium.

luis goes to the UK looking for a juergen leitner book (though he doesn’t know that that’s what it’s called) the book is affiliated with the dark; luis has a page from it and is searching for the rest. he meets kamala when he interviews her. they hit it off instantly and get married after less than a year of knowing each other.

when luis and kamala died, alina was raised by her godfather joel reid who made a statement at the magnus institute when alina went missing.

joel reid was in the relationship with kamala and luis, he was childhood friends with kamala stating that he was probably the only one who could put up with her eccentric personality until luis came along, though luis’ personality wasn’t much better.

he owned a bar and often let alina, jon, and georgie hang out there during their free time.

joel later becomes affiliated with the hunt.

alina and jon meet in college at oxford, alina grew extremely attached to him and kinda forced herself into his life, though he never complained about it.

the two end up moving together, becoming roommates

joel mentions in his statement that alina was always a weird child; knowing and understanding things a child shouldn’t know and understand.

for example when her mother died, alina wasn’t upset but instead strangely disappointed like she knew it would happen.

alina confesses later that she once tried to get her mother to quit working at the magnus institute, that working there would lead to her death. though, kamala couldn’t quit no matter how hard she tried.

alina was once brought into the m.i. with her mother, which causes the Eye to set its sights on her (pun fucking intended). alina refused to go back with her mother since then.

when jon expresses interest in joining the magnus institute it leads to a lot of tense conversations between alina and jon.

alina doesn’t want jon working there since she knows the truth about that place, but she couldn’t exactly explain to jon about the Entities since she knows he wouldn’t believe her without proof

she tried to subtly ward him off the magnus institute but when that doesn’t work she gradually becomes more forceful which leads to A lot of fights between jon and her; it’s one fo the only things they’ve ever fought about it

the last fight they had was extremely bad, which causes alina storm out of the house without any of her belongings & stay with joel for a few days.

while alina stays with joel, she never leaves her room. in joel’s statement he mentions a lot of strange things happening during that time like the lights going out for hours at a time and the shadows of strange figures he’d see at the corner of his eye

the last day joel saw alina is when she said yes to the Dark.

she disappeared for six years after that. when joel made a report they classified it as her missing a year later she was declared dead.

jon blamed himself for her disappearance.

the Dark has always been around alina, watching and waiting for her. she never planned on saying yes, since she knew what it was, but she needed a way to protect jon from the horrors of the magnus institute and becoming an avatar of the dark seemed to be the only solution

alina returns six years after she disappears, right after jane prentiss attacks the archives

she’s asleep, right outside her and jon’s apartment.

her and jon talk a lot that night and she moves back in with him (though all of her stuff was still there, jon didn’t move or touch anything, like he was waiting for her to come back)

she practically forces elias to give her a job at the archives, he accepts because the Eye wants her there and alina becomes jon’s assistant though she doesn’t leave his side.

alina as never been a good person and being trapped in the Dark for 6 years doesn’t help that. 

she comes back the same; happy, outgoing and charismatic. the complete opposite of jon; but she’s willing to do anything to make sure jon is happy and healthy and safe. she’s extremely loyal and overprotective of him.

she later grows fond of tim and martin and tries to protect them too. 

i ship alina with jon (romantically) & martin (platonically) tbh; i think about this ot3 A LOt jdbdbdjdj they’re in a poly relationship but alina and martin are friends since i hc martin being gay and only romantically interested in martin. though alina and martin do end up loving each other as family.

[ot-hoe-me]

OC: Gabrielle Dupont

For IF: @veirsewrites​

Gabrielle Dupont - High Vampire and owner of the nightclub astrium (yes all lowercase.)

Astrium - latin word meaning “hearth” she so named her club in the spirit it was built - to be a place that is open and welcoming to anyone to cut loose free of worry, regardless of species, including humans. Her long term hope being that it could be a foundation to bridge (ha) the gaps between humans and the various supernaturals to one day create a harmonious, peaceful existence. She will protect this dream and those who share it (her employees) until her (final) dying breath.

LI(s): Arlo Martin Moreno (Main), (Edith) Eddie Reagan, The Insurgent (...if it’s Gabriel...awkward moment when you’re dating someone with a different-gender-variant of your own name smh)

Orientation: Biromantic Demisexual

Fang Type: Top and bottom canines

Club Aesthetic: Gold and Black with the fancy glittery chandeliers, not mentioned but astrium also has midnight blue accents (like velvet curtains, throw pillows on the couches, paint colour on the walls in the washrooms that sort of thing.)

Main Hobby: Music

Relationships:

Arlo Martin Moreno - No matter what route she’s on, the two of them are going to be ex-lovers. Gabrielle was embarrassed and heartbroken when he turned up in front of her, alive, after all that time. But even still, after getting through all of that she’ll be relieved that he is alive because she’s still in love with him (LI route); or because she still deeply cares about him and his well-being, and hopes that they can be friends even though she cannot bring herself to love him again. (Eddie or Insurgent route)

Edith ‘Eddie’ Reagan - Her business partner and friend of ten years, she is Gabrielle’s closest confidant because she knows that they both know that they’ll have each other’s backs no matter what. She likes to gently tease her, and I also get the feeling that they actually have a fair amount of inside jokes. Romantic or platonic, Gabrielle loves Eddie’s smile and treasures the rare ones she sees, and would do pretty much anything to see more of them. Also appreciates how protective she is. 

Amelie Cadman - Hmm, I’ll come back when I have a better sense of Amelie’s character and her and MC’s canon relationship. Gabrielle has come to see her as a valued friend though.

Kayden Smith - She is glad to have Kayden as part of the family, and greatly appreciates her company. Gabrielle likes to check in with her regularly to make sure she’s doing well and not working too hard. She also hosts dinner parties fairly often, not just on holidays to cook for her employees and show them her appreciation for what they do (this is in addition to bonuses lol.) Since Kayden has been working at the club from basically the beginning since Eddie scouted her she has seen the leaps and bounds Gabrielle has made in the kitchen and is grateful for the progress let’s just say. Was very patient while she was learning though

Halley and Kade Timmons - Honestly she dotes on them so much, like fabled ‘rich aunt you only see twice a year since she’s travelling the world, but always comes back with the best presents and stories’ levels of doting. Like for example if one of them offhandedly mentions that they want/need something it’s shipped to their doorstep the next day. Forgot to bring lunch? It’s ready by the time they go on break. Taking more hours or doing a later shift? Not only is she paying overtime but she’s making dinner. Someone being creepy and making them uncomfortable? Throwing out the offender herself, banning them for life, and doing it all in heels. Honestly just wants to see them succeed and thrive in making their dreams come true. Super protective of Kade and Halley, and would fist fight god to keep them safe so they can live long and happy lives.

The Insurgent - n/a

The High Council - Gabrielle’s relationship with the vampire High Council is about as good as you’d expect between two parties who have opposing beliefs on what “the safety of [our] species” means, and how it would be achieved. Honestly, probably the more she hears about the rebels and their ideals, the more she’ll want to support a coup, I’m guessing. That and the fact that I think Ilian and Ravenna have a personal interest in her and Arlo...(Yes I think that they’re the two vampires in Arlo’s memory.) Illian threatening Kade and Halley is most probably the last straw she has for them all.

[ladybirdwithoutdots]

talk about ~problematic ..

..and the never ending hypocrisy (of fanon!ship fans who hate on the canon love interest)

Again, I really, really can’t take people seriously when they concern troll about the age difference between Emma and Mr Knightley (that truly was the norm in 1800 and doesn’t have to be arbitrarily bad nowadays either if we are talking about consenting adults) making it the be all end all of excuses to paint their romance as problematic (because they have no other arguments and keep projecting on Emma because they don't accept it's him she loves and she really doesn't give a damn about the fact he's older than her), and play moral police with people who like it (as if anyone here is ‘glorifying’ it because of the age-gap, lol?? couldn’t be we love them because they are equals and they know each other well and they are in love with each other and a perfect match? I dunno) all the while they are out here not only giving a pass to Emma&Harriet’s (canonically) problematic ‘friendship’, but actually, actively, overinflate and romanticize that dynamic taking its most negative elements out of context, altering it all to ‘glorify’ them and present them as “best friends/relationship goals”.

(btw, nice try but the man is only 37? he's like, still young and BOTH Emma and Harriet think he can get it so yeah, stay mad I guess)

Listen, I love Emma and her character growth (she’s one of the best female characters ever for many reasons) but I’m not here to erase her flaws, and pretend she’s an angel, and the fact Harriet truly brings out the worst sides of her character and in more than one aspect, she acts like a narcissistic abuser with her in a way that can really resonate with people who experienced that both in romantic and platonic relationships. And the thing is, people don’t talk about that ENOUGH in spite of this being a very important part of the book that, truly, is not that hard to understand in its narrative devices and what kind of purpose Austen gives to this or that element (including and foundamentally the dynamics too).

Don't make me take one of the book copies I own and start to quote all the things to refresh your memory but the way Emma manipulates the girl, considers her an "addition to her privileges", thinks she can improve her, create her opinions, form her tastes and essentially turn her into everything she wants her to be is enough to make me see red flags in their so called friendship but the fact she is passive aggressive with her (pretty much telling her she won’t be her friend if she associates with people she doesn’t approve or considers below her) and actively manipulates Harriet into rejecting a man she knows that she loves? all because she cannot see herself being a friend of the farmer’s wife so Harriet must marry the guy EMMA chooses for her (creepy Elton) and that she deems right. I mean, the part where she dictates when Harriet is allowed to visit the Martins women (that Harriet considers her friends and who care a great deal about her) and how long the visit must be and Harriet does everything Emma wants her to do... like, hello??? I don’t care if Emma thinks she’s doing that for her good (as if this isn’t exactly what most of abusers think?), or if her conscience sometimes tries to make her feel sorry, her behavior is still wrong on so many levels, she is selfish, manipulative, arrogant and in no way her relationship with Harriet is that of a real friend nor it is healthy by any means.

The truth is she will understand Harriet and respect her feelings for Robert only when she herself understands her feelings for Mr Knightley (insert Demi!Emma readings here) and Harriet briefly becomes a threat for her but, for most of it, their dynamic essentially boils down to clever, rich, privileged Emma manipulating a pretty but not intellectually skilled, naive, 17 years old daughter-of-no-one making her a pet project because she’s bored and lonely, only to drop the girl like a hot potato the moment she realizes they both want the same man. When Emma is annoyed at Mrs Elton for her arrogance and the way she treats Jane as a pet project to feed her ego she’s essentially looking into a mirror that reflects an exasperated, caricature version of herself and her own flaws.

The fact the only thing Harriet and Emma have in common is being both girls would, alone, make me struggle finding potential for real friendship between them. There are moments that really emphasize Harriet’s intellectual inferiority to Emma’s cleverness and frustrated intellegence. I never get the idea they talk about anything deep, and it's obvious to me they are both blind to each other feelings about anything important, cue Emma not getting the fact Harriet wanted Mr Knightley not Frank (and Harriet worships her but doesn't see her as a human being who may have feelings too, she only cares about Emma helping her). Putting that aside, the power imbalance there is really HUGE and they are never equals and they will never be equals in any shape or form. It will always be ‘Miss Woodhouse/Mrs Knightley’ and ‘Harriet’  with the latter not really having a free choice whether she wants to be nice to the first or not. It’s even worse in the end because Emma marries the guy who owns the land and house where Harriet and her husband live. To simply put it, using what Emma thinks at one point, she’s everything while Harriet is nothing. I saw people legit comparing them to Anne and Diana and I’m like NOPE.

But I digress... back to the main point, there is no doubt that if you analyze romances written centuries ago using nowadays standards and sensibilities you are always going to find something icky or problematic in them; no one is denying that. But you can’t seriously expect me to see Mr Knightley as a villain and/or paint his relationship with Emma as problematic (for reasons that more often than not aren’t even canon ) all the while you are more or less turning a blind eye to the actual canon reasons why Emma is a villain in Harriet’s story and she realizes that she is, and that’s one of the main reasons why they have to go on separate ways in the end for the good of them both.

The fact the Emma&Harriet dynamic is romanticized is interesting in the way it also emphasizes how contradictory the "moral police" on the internet really is. When you really think about it, that dynamic does have a lot of those elements that people deem as problematic when it comes to male/female relationships. In fact, were Emma a man I have no doubt people, especially in this day and age, would endlessly complain about that relationship and see Harriet as a victim and want her to free herself from Emma asap. 

However, it seems like since the ‘bad guy’ is a woman in this instance, instead of being a man like it usually is, people not only give it a pass but actually romanticize it as if they like a woman having that role for a change (or they just don't recognize some things as bad if it's a woman doing them and it’s done in a platonic relationship instead of romance). I think while men and women never had the same power and privileges, some things are problematic no matter the gender of the person doing them and especially in Emma and Harriet’s case, in spite of the story being set in context of 1800 where women as a whole had less rights and power than men, Emma DOES still really have a ton of power and privilege compared to Harriet and in the context of her world and her reality, there is no chance for them to be equal or for Emma’s actions/behavior to get a pass just because she’s a woman.

So yeah, tl dr: if you want to concern troll about the age difference in the main couple (and project your feelings on Emma) all the while you aren't one bit willing to also take a honest, critical look at how problematic the Emma&Harriet dynamic really is, and you actually glorify and romanticize it as good and cute, in the same breath you want to policy people about whether they are allowed or not allowed to find emma/knightley cute, I'll just side-eye you and not really take your 'critique’ seriously.