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Man like. I really hope the theories about 'redeeming Solas' ending being to die/mirror his friend wisdom where he dies but will eventually get respawned as a 'new' him, aren't true. Because ngl that's. A very unappealing ending imo. Like that isn't worth the 10 year wait at all.
#its no different to me than if he were to just die permanently.#bc he explains that his friend wont remember him and will come back similar but not necessarily even the same personality#like it just wont be him. the solas we knew would be dead. and im so fucking bored of that#like im just. im gonna be mean hang on#solas redemption arc being 'he dies and respawns' is so. fucking. lazy?#like idk i guess i find it more compelling to have a character learn to Want to live. learn How to live. etc especially when its an immortal#not to mention. like. solas personal quest w wisdom dying is like. im sorry i didnt cry? it wasnt That Emotional.#someone died. happens in like every fucking dragon age quest ever.#the emotional part of solas' quest was how He felt and dealt with it.#and even then. he just disappeared until you fast traveled back to skyhold next.#like am i making sense?#the emotional part was seeing how broken up HE was about it. but wisdom dying was no sadder than when duke bastien dies in Viv's quest#it was just a death with a little *essence may reform later and be a new spirit note#anyway I'll be like. incredibly disappointed if that's what happens to solas no matter what
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thinking about rafe & coryo & anakin & astarion and how imo their inherrent appeal (if you pick up on any) is supposed to be in the fact that something is extremely wrong with them (or they aren’t meant to have any appeal at all). bc i don’t understand the stans who are so selective with reading and hearing they try to argue otherwise like were you so blinded you ignored the glaringly & obviously bad things about them??????? rafe & coryo & anakin later especially?????????
#thinking about hannah’s posts about rafe and how he’s portrayed vs how he’s seen#‘it’s in the potential’ ‘i can fix him’ zuko’s redemption arc and it’s consequences on media consumers#NOT EVERY BITCH CAN BE HIM#some characters cannot (within canon) be redeemed accept it and fuck him about it anyways#to clarify i fw with the trope of he’s less awful to you but i love when its still mentioned how sick he is and you should rlly be grateful#astarion in a dark urge playthrough likes animal cruelty#most times anakin kills its in large numbers and hes extremely obsessive#coryo knowingly takes joy in starving others and playing with them like a snake does a rat etc etc#one of the most knowingly sadistic inhumane characters and you can’t really make him give a fuck#rafe is arguably incestuous and a void for drugs who will leech off of you like a parasite if you stay with him despite everything#etc etc etc.#they’re reactionary the world pivots around their emotions and in most situations i believe they’d kill you before they let you go#they’re the sun in the way that in their own universe they are the center of it and they’ll eventually collapse in on themselves#bc they’re burning up themselves and those around them but for the time being its give them enough of a high to live off of#*it gives#astarion is more covert maybe on purpose#and if you don’t know his ea backstory i think you’ll just gloss over a lot anyway but he’s a bitch regardless and he serves himself#and later you but no one else#like imo even with the spawn ending he’s not treating everybody like he’d treat himself and you#tw animal cruelty#tw murder#(mainly)#📜.scrolls
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Imo Jason is “irredeemable” by default because I don’t see what he needs redemption from.
#I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before but joining this fandom made me fucking hate the word ‘redemption’#no person I’ve seen who is in love with the concept knows the who what where when why or how it should work in a story#apparently it isn’t just themes and tropes anymore people don’t understand the proper use of the word ‘villain’#kelseethe#also hilarious: Jason should recieve sensitivity training HR style from Bruce ‘I’m the government and children are my cronies’ wayne#if Jasons headstrong/‘answers to no one’ attitude towards vigilantism is what makes people think he's villainous#I hate to be a broken record but the baddie you’re describing is Bruce#nobody thinks he’s a villain for only trusting in his own methods/self and repeatedly isolating himself#and on top of that gaslighting and hurting people around him in attempts to do what HE **thinks** is the right thing#you people always thought *him* heroic not problematic for all these traits#the only difference is Jason isn’t psychologically abusive & controlling#yet he’s still the bad guy just cause he liberally kills folks in the crime business.#l'd argue goth ham war is the b*tman story to remind you of everything that makes Bruce authentically himself#Idk how to tell you that Bruce mentally compromising/crippling his son in a twisted attempt to ‘save him from himself’#is perfectly in line with slitting the same son’s throat because he couldn’t stand to see him avenge his own killer#and yk what a redemption arc could be interesting for someone like Bruce#because he rarely questions or doubts his choices esp wrt Jason. no matter how morally dubious they may be#I think it would be quite fun to witness his extremely restricted worldview be challenged/shattered he deserves that humbling experience
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Can I ask your opinion on what you personally think a good redemption arc for Megatron would be? I agree with your opinion of IDW/ES’s attempts because it really feels like something is…missing.
this is kinda critical, and it may be strange coming from me because over the past year I've tended to be soft on megatron but I've also been looking at characters with a more critical lens....so if hardcore megatron critique offends you then just look over. also...these are MY opinions.
What is missing is actual accountability, because in none of Megatrons redemption arcs does he ever actually take accountability, at least not in a way, IMO, that does anything for the narrative or holds him accountable.
There’s a lot of things that could’ve been done different. while I don’t really agree with how things are going in ES in regards to his character, what I do like is that Megatron’s past actions are finally coming back to get him. And by that, I mean that all the Decepticons have practically turned their back on him, which I love. And it also shows the organization can and in some cases should exist without him. I think what I didn’t like about ES, is that his redemption fell flat because he didn’t really understand a lot of what he did wrong. Meaning that, yes he was very sympathetic about being a warlord, and causing war and stuff. we even saw how much he cared about the deceptions and how angry he’d get when he thought that Optimus was working with GHOST to subdue the cons.
However, Megatron’s care for the Decepticons in ES is very very conditional. Meaning that if any Con had an issue with I’m, or literally wasn’t worshipping his feet or seeing him as a leader, he was prone to violence. This was shown with the Seekers AND Soundwave especially Soundwave — whom his peaceful facade broke the minute Soundwave held him accountable.
So I can’t say I completely hate ES, because it shows the flaws in taking a war lord and trying to make him a family grandpa, when he hasn’t really, truly been held accountable. But that’s also the thing that kinda makes me not like his redemption arc in ES. He is free, with the Autobots, with the Maltos, while his people are not. AND YES, for whatever reason, Megatron betrayed them. Maybe Megaton thought he was doing the right thing, maybe he thought it was saving the Decepticons, regardless it was still a bad look imo.
I hope ES points that out, how hypocritical he is, how the Deceptions don’t really want him as a leader because of that.
IDW/Lost Light...
I love the Lost light, and i have a soft spot for LL Megs, but I really don't think Megatron deserved a lot of the nuance and care he got, when other characters had to suffer and didn't really get that. LIKE soundwave and other cons/ex-cons also deserved that nuance and love he got.
I think what i really hated however is how Megatron's presence on the Lost Light overshined a lot of the other characters. There was this need to push an unneeded redemption to the point that other people's narratives were overlooked. Rodimus suffered MASSIVELY for this, and he became an addition to Megatron' s arc, wherein he still had so much more growing to do. Now his character is solely tied to megatron and to me at least, it's kinda annoying. He deserves to exist outside of megatron but because there was a need for redemption for Megatron, he doesn't get that.
The relationship between Magnus and Rodimus, which needed to be highlighted, was HEAVILY destroyed because the narrative wanted Megatron to be the main character. And Roddy's trauma with being a prime was essentially downplayed.
I think that Megatron probably should've fought Unicron with the others in the end. And similar to starscream and soundwave, i think death, certain death would've been a great redemption for him. I'm not saying he can't be on the lost light for a while but essentially he wasn't held accountable for anything he did. he got therapy, he got a family, and he also got to leave to go to the functions universe and live a life he wanted.
and yeah maybe he gets executed, but there is also another megatron who was created with another LL, who doesn't get that, and he gets to be free and happy, while trillions are still dead because of him.
I don't think he actually got a redemption arc in the LL simply because he wasn't held accountable for anything. He got a very compelling, sympathetic story that i guess worked...
but i never saw it as redemption because he never was truly truly held accountable for what he did.
that's just my opinion. all of this is just my opinion so you don't have to agree with my takes!
#i've been dragging starscream#so i guess it's megatron's turn#imo tho i'm not really dragging them this is just a really critical look at their characters#especailly megatron#who like i've been saying tends to be woobified or pacified#to the point where if you mention he was a villain#nowadays - especially circles on twitter - will get mad at you#especially if you are uncomfortable with how the narrative kinda glosses over him#megatron#rodimus prime#transformers idw#transformers earthspark#tf earthspark#honestly both megatron and starscream are overly excused and pacified by their fandbases to the point where#pointing out their villains#or probelmatic tends to get people mad#and i've just been tired of it!!!#but as i've really been looking back im not a fan of megatron's redemption arc in ES#and im not calling it a redemption arc in IDW because it's nawt
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my problem with dhawan!master coming after gomez!master isn’t that it goes back on her character arc. it’s that it goes back on her character arc with no explanation. it would be one thing if the show acknowledged all their years together in the vault but expressed that the master backslid hard after series ten. but it doesn’t. it makes no reference to that whatsoever, and that’s why i like to read it as dhawan being pre-missy. because chibnall makes no effort to connect his era to the last, it just becomes so narratively unsatisfying to longtime fans of the show. there is one reference to the events of twelve era in all of thirteen era, and it’s in an episode not written by chibnall. I don’t trust that the man even read a plot synopsis of the twelve era, much less watched it. so it’s more fun to me, as someone who cares about consistency and emotional continuity, to read missy coming after the events of thirteen’s era.
#it’s not about ouuuhhhhh i wanted the master to have a full redemption arc and never be evil again!!#it’s about. i want these characters who i care about to acknowledge what they’ve been through together#and since this is a time travel show. it’s very easy to re-order things to make more emotional sense#‘’but chibnall said—‘’ I DON’T CARE!! he’s wrong. hope this helps#maybe i am just a lover of the twelve era but it’s like. damn. i wish that had all mattered in the long term!!#not to mention there’s a ton of missy’s characterization and dialogue that’s made more fun by her knowing about TTC#doctor who#thirteenth doctor#dhawan!master#gomez!master#delia.txt
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY PRESENT MIC, I got you (super)villainy <3
#liza writes#yamada hizashi#shirakumo oboro#aizawa shouta#he and shinsou both get aus for their birthdays lol#hero/villain/vigilante au#it gets a ✨tag✨#bc now that i've posted abt it once there's no guarantee the dam hasn't broken and i might yell about it some more#i can't believe i'm posting a snippet it's been rotating in the brain microwave for so long#but if ever there was an occasion for it it would be mic's birthday. what a guy#mha fic#q#i mentioned this on my main but if you've read this far in the tags you can have the cursed knowledge#that yes mom by tessa violet is this au's villain mic theme song in the funniest possible way#it’s about the backstory#i wanted to post the next chapter of brave the dark today since it’s a mic chapter#but this weekend’s stats so far have been#broken refrigerators: 1#unanticipated urgent care visits: 1#(not for me which is somehow worse)#just sitting with my head in my hands: too many to count#but! refrigerator has been fixed and a referral has been acquired#AND new machi fic? come on weekend redemption arc
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im not usually one for pc x pc in dndads at all However i am starting to slowly see that the gothcleats guys did have a point
#dndads#dungeons and daddies#dndads s2#dndads spoilers#like. idk#mostly i just am fucking loving linc and scary being friends!!! theyre such cute friends now i cant get over it#scary my dorter i am obsessed with u#she has the best redemption arc honestly i love her sosososo much#the evolution from “ok. i guess i wont care” to being the one to comfort and reassure linc the most when he ... welllll#(its dndads ofc its stupid)#(/fond)#turns into a lego#I LOVE HER SO MUCH AND I ALWAYS HAVE!!!!!!#scary haters eat my boot#scary marlow you will always be famous#scary marlowe#lincon li wilson#linc dndads#link dndads#FORGPT TO MENTION THE WAY SHE WAS RHE MOST CARING LAST EPOSODE#AND THE ONE BEFORE THAT#WHEN NORMAL WAS CRYING IN HIS HELMET YK#GODDDDDD.
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the duality of misao being one of the few psychiatrists in arkham that has actually made progress with some of their patients and treats them like human beings, but also someone who does a complete 180° later + EATS her patients and gaslights people who ask about them into thinking they were never committed there is currently making me go feral. like girlll why are you like this JSJSJ
#ALL POWER DEMANDS POWER AND SACRIFICE: musings.#NO SLEEP OF THE INNOCENT. NOT FOR YOU: character study.#and whenever i say it's making me go feral i mean it both puzzling as well as intriguing to me that misao seems to not be on ANYONE'S-#side even when it may seem like she might just care about her patients bc she not only gaslights any of the staff and patients who ask abou#them into thinking that the person was never there BUT also destroys records of them ever having been there which would take quite a bit#of effort on her part to do and that is just. wow but like i said here misao is probably one of the only doctor's throughout the years who-#have treated their patients with empathy (even if most of it is faked on her part JSJSJ) and even does thing's like keep a cupboard-#full of snacks in her office for them so that they could have something better to eat than the cafeteria food...#and that is why i believe that it honestly wouldn't be too far-fetched for misao to end up having a redemption arc because-#she honestly doesn't like a LOT of the staff there because they still advocate for the use of barbaric practices like ECT on fully-#conscious people and as a regular treatment when it should be done under anesthesia / while the patient is asleep and be a 'last resort'#kind of thing you know? plus she has heard them talk about her behind her back before bc they think misao's 'weird' sooo yeah.#she isn't COMPLETELY evil but she still does thing's like eat people which is heinous in and of itself but even more so when there's-#a power imbalance between you + the other person because some people in there i could imagine would probably grow to trust her-#as an authority figure buttt misao would fully intend to take advantage of that so she could eat. and that is uhhh TERRIBLE to say the leas#tw: mentions of cannibalism.#tw: mentions of medical malpractice.#tw: manipulation.#tw: mentions of a power imbalance.
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#dropping a few jokes from between srs stuff#joshmegumi#holey art tag#context:#1.) Megumi redemption arc#2.) I was fighting with myself how to make it about Joshu and N but given that Joshu literally tells N to skip that day I gave up#and after I sent this done version to Kaa she said ''wouldn't it work if you reversed the other from J→N to N→J?'' orz#3.) its gloomy but I take it kind of like a motivational poster xd#EDIT : oops this was supposed to stay in drafts but I guess it can see the light of day its just jokes#tw: suicide mention
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This season of Bridgerton was a standout for me in truly the amount of beautifully diverse and complex female friendships that were portrayed - obvious ones to mention are the older ladies like Lady Danbury, Queen Charlotte, Violet Bridgerton and of course Eloise and Penelope's relationship. But also Danbury taking Alice under her wing, Eloise and Cressida Cowper even though it was doomed from the start it was genuine for some time, and a HUGE one for me that I've seen kind of not really acknowledged by a lot of people but Genevieve Delacroix and Penelope. The concern and camaraderie they have for each other as truly the only working women (esp now that the Mondritch's have fully joined the ton) in the series and the conversation they had before Penelope's wedding was so fucking amazing.
#also can i just say cressida getting shipped to her aunt is not the ending i wanted for her but its loads better than her getting married to#an old ass man#AND lets not forget cressida was a fucking bully even if her home life is shit that makes her sympathetic#she should come back too i want a redemption arc for her#also she and penelope are such perfect foils for one another with their cruel moms who truly believe theyre doing their best#honorable mention to the michaela reveal *chefs kiss*#i saw her and eloise chatting away and i cant wait to see THEIR friendship#but also francesca and michaela ooooo#bridgerton
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Anon won but at what cost?
#he died. congrats#but the price for your wish being fulfilled?#a redemption arc that turned most fans into izzy stans#was it worth it?#context: this was sent to me prior to s2 when i mentioned izzy in the most neutral of ways#me: wow this fandom has a lot of intense in fighting about izzy. i’m scared. anon: DIE#izzy hands#ofmd#original post#and just in case:#anti izzy hands#izzy hands critical#not from me. from an anonymous ask#hate mail#harassment cw
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#THEY'RE ANNOYINGGGG AND ALSO ALWAYS MAKING CONTRADICTORY POSTS#IT'S “I LOVE STEVE'S BITCHY ERA” AND THEN IT'S “STEVE WAS NEVER AN ASSHOLE”#IT'S “STEVE HAS SUCH AN AMAZING CHARACTER ARC" (PART OF WHICH WAS A REDEMPTION!!)#AND THEN IT'S “STEVE NEVER DID A THING WRONG” (WHAT GOT REDEEMED THEN??)#UGHHHH. YOU DON'T LIKE HIM YOU JUST LIKE JOE KEERY#one singular steve stan is valid and it's my beloved mutual theo#that stupid ass poll. that stupid ass fucking poll. anyway as I said on my tags on that poll#jonathan gatekept‚ girlbossed‚ and most importantly he gaslit!!! he LIEDDDD to nancy about being asked to take her home!!#which means steve left his gf drunk!!!#THE POLL DOESN'T EVEN MENTION STEVE. BTW. IT CARRIES NO IMPLICIT JUDGMENT ON STEVE#YOU'RE JUST MAKING EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM AGAIN. AS USUAL#stranger things
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with the disclaimer that I don't know all the context since I haven't read it, how WAS he supposed to handle a contagious illness in a society that doesn't have any form of masks or sanitation? Temporarily quarantining contagiously sick cats away from healthy ones just seems like a completely different and much more reasonable thing than kicking out cats permanently for a disability because they would be a "burden".
@halogenwarrior
Ok, going with you having no context for this, he wasn't suggesting a 'temporary quarantine' for sick cats. There is already a quarantine, with only the medics approaching the sick. Following everyone having a Hearty Chuckle that Clear Sky 'cares about other people' now by saying we're "all in it together," Clear Sky shares his full plan;
He nonsensically believes that no sick prey is living in the burnt part of his woods and the fire "cleansed it", so all of the healthy cats will abandon the sick to die in their camps and come live on his territory and 'wait it out.'
His plan is that all the cats who become sick will die. It's not quarantine in the sense that they will 'help the sick but keep a distance', he is essentially suggesting a reverse leper colony where everyone who displays symptoms gets kicked out to fend for themselves.
And, in the past, illness was always part of his talking points for throwing cats out of his clan. It was why he tried to throw Frost out, where he would die alone. I went back to Thunder Rising to grab the passage,
This is after he shoves Thunder's face into it and tells him to lick it.
So, it's wholly inappropriate, imo, that Thunder essentially does a little eye roll and a cutesy sigh at this suggestion. "Ohh that's my dad and his ruthless streak." His dad has historically been a monster towards the sick and infirm when they "stop being useful" with this rhetoric. Burdens, disease, weakness. In this moment, he is proposing that they do to an unknown number of cats exactly what he commanded Thunder do to Frost.
Additionally, at this point in time, they don't know how the illness spreads. They're guessing that it's via contact with sick prey, and using leaves as rudimentary tissues/gloves. Clear Sky DOES know, though, these two things;
One Eye knows how it spreads and is not telling.
Many of his cats have been exposed.
He has no idea which cats have been exposed, or how many, or even how long it takes between infection and first symptoms. All they DO know is that symptoms are rapid onset and debilitating. By the time you know a cat is sick, they're covered in sores, have a bloated stomach, and are unable to hunt for themselves. The only thing that is for sure is that turning them out is a death sentence.
And yet he is confused at the idea that Thunder has an objection about leaving Morning Whisker, Wind Runner's kitten who isn't older than a month or two, alone to die.
The solution that the groups eventually come up with is that the clans will remain isolated from each other as to not spread illness, though it doesn't seem to work because infected prey still moves around freely.
Also note that the first time Clear Sky actually gives a damn about an infected person is when Jagged Peak's pregnant wife catches it (After Jagged Peak 'proves' he's useful now by leading a medicine-seeking patrol thanks to Gray Wing). Wind Runner's an "ex-rogue," a group Clear Sky has disdain for, and he doesn't think to have compassion about her baby.
So to answer your question directly, he was 'supposed' to handle it the way the Moor cats did and were, with some basic safety precautions. Not regress to trying to use the illness to get all the cats into a single Clan in his own territory where he could continue to throw "useless/dangerously ill/disabled" out into the wilderness "where the maggots will find them".
#tw medical gore#It's worse than I mentioned but I was trying to be brief about it#Because if I dove into every little thing that is SHOCKINGLY bad about Clear Sky I wouldn't be able to get through the book#I swear im trying to be charitable about the fact his first suggestion was just...#''Kill your sick friends and children and join a brand new camp in MY territory''#''I totally won't assert myself as your leader and make you throw out your friends and family For The Greater Good this time''#''I've been thinking it's a great idea to gather all of the cats in one spot as a contagious illness ravages the forest''#''Don't worry we won't get sick because we'll leave all the weak people behind''#You can think about this for more than 30 seconds and see it fall apart#So isn't it very very convenient that his ''i've been Thinking'' idea involves consolidating power under HIMSELF??? AGAIN?????#At *best* he is so stupid he is inventing a superspreader event#At minimum his plan involves killing a LOT of people via abandonment#And at worst it's actually just another ploy to gain power. But I have to rule that out even though it's the most interesting idea#Because it's Clear Sky Redemption Arc Time and the writers are dead set on not letting him be an interesting character
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I feel like I see much more complaining about innocent sad mom girlboss fandomized Artificer than i actually see innocent sad mom girlboss Artificer. Past like, jokes about them being a girlboss. Which don't count.
#Theres like maybe 3 or 4 people i can name who do a -MUCH- sympathetically angled or apologetic artificer and its#largely done in a sort of AU way or focusing on different things#increasingly convinced half this argument just comes from 'if you write them as anything less than genocidal maniac and focus at all on#artificers own grief or reaction youre trying to Ignore the Murder' which like#idk the reasons and effects of those actions are interesting things and yes some people do want to look at why people turn out the way they#do without it immediately being 'actually the bad part doesnt matter'#people like villain redemption arcs!! people like thinking villains can change!! its not that weird they get that kinda angle#not to mention that theres a big split in the sapience/intelligence levels people ascribe to the slugcats and scavengers#for me artificers just a few steps above a particularly neurotic dog in terms of scavengers#so yeah im not particularly out to ascribe them as some immoral monster its just a uniquely destructive and very unwell animal#they would not get their ass adopted at the shelter!!! bite warning bite warning!!
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chapter four woooo. everyone is out here doing their best sweating like hell and ayame is just casually about to fall asleep on the concrete. vibes
ao3 - https://archiveofourown.org/works/58741765/chapters/151307389
quotev - https://www.quotev.com/story/16714095/making-of-a-miracle-blue-lock-various-x-m-oc/4
#trying to sneak like hints that could be considered kind of yan#or considered just cute depending on how you read it#bachira my beloved#cute personality + mildly obsessive and offputting makes him so fun to write#blue lock#bllk#blue lock fanfiction#bllk fanfic#blue lock x oc#bllk x oc#i mentioned his appearance being inspired by kiyoko haikyuu but he's got some bits and pieces from a bunch of haikyuu characters actually#i stole hinatas insane stamina#ayas hometown / high school are inspired by haikyuu karasuno area#(and some actual research but mostly going off haikyuu vibes)#and then kageyama's whole lone player thing but that it NOT a bad thing in ayame's eyes#seeing as blue lock is... blue lock. he is not on a redemption arc
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something that is really bizarre to me is how people actually LIKE. llorumi. like how like how LIKE HOW????
#ninjago#lego ninjago#ninjago fandom#ninjago masters of spinjitzu#lloyd garmadon#lloyd montgomery garmadon#harumi ninjago#ninjago harumi#harumi garmadon#i just cant fathom how people actually like it????#its SO toxic#how do people not realize that#before you mentioned…… crystallized 🤢 harumi barely had a redemption arc she just realized she was fighting the wrong person#like the dumbass she is#shes also LITERALLY INSANE?
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