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ā Any unpopular opinions about your muse?
//looks at some of this fandom and sweats. LIKE Y'ALL KNOW CARMINE ISN'T THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL, RIGHT? seriously, i see just a bunch of nasty shit thrown around at her and solely her pretty much and just. yikes? fuckin' yikes.
//like, to heavily derail for a moment and get on my lil sable soapbox here--my favorite part of the kieran and carmine conflict is that they are both wrong in very, very different ways, and they are just so delightfully fucked up because of it! because they are both perpetrators and victims of fuckery! because they are idiots! carmine is queen idiot and has some of the worst moodswings known to man and that does get saddled on poor kieran, but she still like...cares...about her brother??? she just has the emotional regulation of, you know, an actual teenager. girl makes mistakes! girl can be egotistical as fuck and stomp all over people's feelings whether she actually means to or not! she's not fucking pure evil???
//and on ANOTHER can of worms, likewise kieran isn't just this like, irredeemable monster that some sides of the fandom see him as? he's no flawless softboy either but like. holy shit. the boy ain't perfect but that's what makes him interesting, and boy got pushed to his breaking point by lies and being deceived, which is like. good! call out the people who did this! even if they wanted to keep you safe they could've at least explained it??? go off man--okay MAYBE NOT THAT FAR PUT THE [SPOILER FOGHORN] DOWN--
//...anyway this got significantly out of hand but tl;dr can we just accept that this is a solid ESH on the AITA rating scale and stop trying to demonize one sib for the benefit of the other. thanks!
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My two cents on how much of Mind!Varric is Rookās mind trying to fill the blank space and how much is Solas actively talking through a convenient blood magic paper doll of the mind: I think it's a mix of both, a truly collaborative psychosocial horrorshow if you would, but waaaay more towards the second. It feels too directed and tactical at times to be anything else. Rook's mind is willing to go along with the denial phase as far as it can fucking carry them to not have to face the grief and regret and does its part in papering over details that donāt make any sense, the way brains will strive to create coherent meaning even out of deeply confusing input, but to my understanding it's a collaborateur in how that plays out, not the instigator or control center. Solas is using it as a path to agency and to gather insight into Rook as a person unguarded as he can't count on in his own guise. (That stoic option that leads to him being like 'oh I see you're cautiously denying me access to your inner life. well. at least you still have Varric to talk to. y'know as an outlet :)'. You absolute BITCH Solas! That alone convinced me that he HAS to have an active hand in it on some level.)
My guess is that it takes considerable effort on Solasā part to make Mind!Varric do anything more involved or complicated than seeming to sit up in bed and give casual commentary, and thatās why he keeps having eerie five minute shallow pep talks with you before he announces he conveniently needs a nap aaanyway good luck kid you got this haha. When heās just spouting NPC lines from his bedrest, Iām ready to believe that could be Rookās mind being allowed to improv lines for him more freely because itās less about Solas trying to get something out of them or working an angle and more āStill here! Still totally alive and fine and the mentor figure you know and love and trust :) donāt even worry about it! Thankfully there is no war in Ba Sing Sei, as we all knowā upkeep work lol. Rookās mind is allowed to set the tone of Varric, the outlines, but not always the content.Ā
AND, on a (beautifully fucked up) character psychology level, I feel like Solas is indulging in actually getting to be the good supportive mentor figure to Rook with one hand to assuage the guilt he feels about what he's done -- and what he's going to do -- to them with the other. Same internal logic as he uses in Trespasser about the Qun. āAlmost everyone is going to die from the course of action Iām doggedly pursuing eventually. But at least I can make their last years happier and freer and kinder than they would have been otherwise. and that kind of makes up for it right. a little bit. doesn't it. doesn't that make it better at least. I need that to make it better)'. Did I really take your beloved mentor and friend from you if you donāt know yet that I did? Some philosophers would argue not really! So itās probably almost ok actually. Isnāt it even a little noble that Iām taking all this grief and guilt on myself and shielding you for now. With undertones that Iām not sure he would realize himself (and might be mortified by if he did) that he is so incredibly lonely, and even a dishonest and indirect emotional connection is more than nothing when youāre that desperate. In this setup he gets idk. Both the control he craves so incredibly badly in relationships and over himself, and the scraps, the fading afterimages, of intimacy and warmth and companionship, even second hand. The one thing Solas and Rook agree on deep deep down is that they really wish Varric weren't gone. They're handshake memeing this in the saddest and most creepy way possible.
I think an important element too is that Solas needs Rook and their team to *succeed* āĀ up to a certain point. He needs someone to hold the two other elven mean girls off until he can get out of here. Ideally, in a perfect world, even do all the hard work of killing them so he can swoop in at the end and do his thing when both sides are exhausted and out of resources to stop him, and then Bobās your uncle! Same logic as he was using with Corypheus, and after that worked out so well, too! King of choosing to never learn from a single solitary mistake heās ever made even though i fully believe he could have the capacity to FenāHarel <3 The underlying idea isnāt flawed, you see, it was just unforeseen circumstances getting in the way. This time for sure itāll all work out the way I cleverly imagined it in my head beforehand. Cue By Talos this canāt be happening etc. in the form of a statue almost crushing him like a bug.Ā
So he's providing guidance and forging Rook into a leader from two angles: one Rook might not trust, and one they probably will. Shaping them into what he needs slowly and carefully. Heās helping you hone your team into their most effective state, as he might have done with his own agents back in the day, setting up his chess pieces even if he has to squint through two glimpsed realities to do it haha. Pincer maneuver of an insidious stealth mentor you never asked for. Alsoā¦ at one point mind Varric gives you a whole little monologue about how Solas' problem is that heās always seen his interpersonal connections as flaws and see where itās landed him, all alone and the worst part? it hasnāt even worked. itās all been for nothing heās back where he began with nothing to show for it but his mistakes. Like...that has such strong 'uh okay happy to play your therapist from two rooms away here what the fuck kind of traumadump is this' energy to me, Iām not sure Rook like. Thinks that much about Solas as a private person. So much of Solas' self-loathing and futile insights into his own flaws seem to shine through in Mind!Varric's dialogue all the time ā I just can't believe that there's no guiding hand behind it as it were.Ā
Most of all. I feel like people underestimate the degree to which Solas is incredibly funny. As in, he has a very consistent and recognizable sense of humour. Itās one of my very favourite things about him. We must remember ā it is crucial that we always keep in mind ā Orlesian accent and wig Solas from May The Dread Wolf Take You (my beloved, the explanation for why I love this dude even with the. All of the everything else. No one does it quite like him). He is not at all above doing things or adding little flourishes for his own obscure amusement, in fact that seems to me to be one of his most consistent traits. The Randy Dowager Quarterly comment Varric has? The āMaybe this is the Dread Wolfās revenge. Forcing us to house sit for himā thing? To Me this is 100% Solas amusing himself in his boring Fade jail surrounded by the screaming hellscape of all his regrets. Source: it came to me as divine revelation through pure vibes trust me broĀ
If nothing else I find it much more narratively interesting personally if the connection between Rook and Solas really is that defenselessly intimate and entwined (and so unbalanced!), and the sense of violation and invasion and betrayal afterwards consequently all the more nauseatingly intense. Even if you kept him at armās length in the open, heās been under your skin the whole time, looking around, gathering what he needs to destroy you, wearing the face of a friend. Regretfully, probably, but choosing to do it every step of the way anyway. (Sound familiar, Inquisitor? Solas doesnāt have that many tricks when you actually look at it, he keeps returning to old tried and true ones like a dog with a bone haha.) Maybe he even genuinely meant some of it as mercy, which only makes it so much worse. It makes his sin against his own core principles of autonomy and the freedom of all beings in mind, spirit and body so much more juicily grave if itās something he pursues actively and consistently, rather than it half-falling into his lap as a happy accident mainly orchestrated by Rookās own subconscious. Solas, too, is at his very lowest point, the closest to giving in and becoming his own antithesis fully that heās ever been, and it makes the choice of whether you still reach out your hand to him one last time or not all the more impactful and difficult.
#dragon age#dragon age: the veilguard#dragon age: the veilguard spoilers#dragon age spoilers#dragon age meta#solas#varric tethras#rook#I love what weeekes has managed to do with solas in this game honestly. both kinder and harsher reads on him?#completely supported by the text and completely valid. it really does come down to how you feel individually at the end of it all#there are good arguments to be made in every direction. sing o muse about a complicated man.#and also a motherfucker (affectionate *and* derogatory)#forgiveness isn't about him it's about you ultimately. do you find it in yourself or are there things that shouldn't be forgiven? up to you#he deserves both compassion and to be slam dunked straight into hell often with equal intensity. and i think that's beautiful#face in my hands. it keeps happening to me. I black out and I've written a whole thing and feel like I've been through a meat grinder#clearly my brain needs to Process things very badly but god I wish I could maybe control a bit more when and how intensely it does it lol#obligatory disclaimer that this is only my personal opinion and read on the game and characters involved etc. YMMV
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Me when ppl say KAOS has too many inaccuracies-
#kaos#netflix kaos#kaos netflix#kaos show#kaos series#kaos dionysus#greek mythology#kaos 2024#kaos zeus#kaos musings#kaos opinions
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Mdzs fandom: I've got an ironclad objective and unambiguous account of this event as it happened in canon.
Me: Is it actually unambiguous?
Fandom: I don't understand
Me: I want to know if you have an ironclad unambiguous objective account of an event, or an in-universe subjective interpretation where the truth is intentionally left up to speculation?
Fandom: I have the objective account
Me: you're sure? It's fine if you have a subjective interpretation.
Fandom: I have an objective unambiguous account. I do not have a subjective interpretation
Me: Alright! Please give me the objective account.
Fandom: Here you go. *hands me an in-universe subjective interpretation of something where the truth is intentionally left up to speculation*
#yeah man i'm sure that this one character's musings on this other character whom they don't know at all are objective truth.#you would think that the theme of not trusting rumours#would be especially clear to people when it comes to characters we as the audience never actually get to spend time with#or see things from their perspective#but for some reason those are the ones people feel most confident taking at face value#mdzs#complaining and whining about fandom#interpetration is GOOD it's FINE it's not like you can't think anything or choose to believe characters some times and not other times#i love interpretation i basically do nothing else on this blog#but when i see people go 'actually this is Clearly Exactly What Happened' for THE most obviously intentionally vague events i lose my mind#'this is ambiguous but based on what we have this is what i think is most likely' <- sure#'actually the author clearly WANTED us all to think [my opinion]' <- bites you bites you bites you
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Something I was musing about this morning is how if thereās one major critique I have of C2, itās that Matt was almost too inflexible with the rules, often seemingly against his own instincts and sometimes to the detriment of the gameās momentum. I remember almost cheering when he firmly decided to stop looking something up they were going in circles over in episode 76 or so (āand thatās how Iām ruling it in my gameā) and I think for a long time I blamed it almost entirely on Matt being way too aware of fan back-seat gaming, which he has thankfully really seemed to move away from or at least care less about.
But something I hadnāt considered until it groggily occurred to me on my commute this morning is that that change for Mattās stance on the rules in C2 might also have been influenced by their massive campaign-long deal with DnD Beyond as a digital toolset.* Hard to be promoting a tool that puts the rules at your fingers if youāre not following those rules, or so I could imagine the logic/concern around the issue. But that also made me think about which players were not necessarily shy about brutal honesty about the way the tool didnāt work for them. DND Beyond in 2018 was a far cry from the functionality it has today. And Liam, whether simply from playing a wizard and having a complicated character or just being a straightforward and set in his way guy, would frequently turn to books/spell cards rather than deal with his tablet. Which also led to the funny ongoing phenomenon of Sam announcing improvements to the tool in an ad which just happened to coincide with something that was making issues for Liam a few weeks before lol.
Anyway, this post is rambling and doesnāt have a point other than that Iām glad Matt feels more free to houserule in C3 for whatever reason (mostly cause he seems more comfortable) and reminding myself of how funny it was how thinly concealed Liamās dislike for the virtual character sheet was for at least the first half of C2.
*important context for this for people who joined CR later is this was also waaaay before WotC bought DnD Beyond. It was a start-up that was acquired by Fandom in 2018 (around the time of the CR partnership) and would remain a 3rd party toolset until WotC paid good money for it in 2022. Just to level-set about the business relationship that happened in C2.
#long post#luckās musings#luckās personal opinions#critical role#join me as a procrastinate during my first day back at work after vacation
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Do you think Bruce was in the wrong in utrh? Do you think he should have killed the joker, or that he failed Jason?
I think Bruce handled the situation completely wrong. In its entirety.
Yes, he failed Jason. Both as Batman and as a father.
Killing Joker isnāt necessarily something I would want Bruce to doā¦ well, no, I do. But I understand that he canāt. So thatās really not the hard part I got hung up on.
What got to me was the way he didnāt even try very much to compromise. Not a single second of genuine joy over Jason being alive, overshadowed by his actions as it may have been.
And yes, Jason was being downright nasty, but Bruce āgreatest-detective-slash-everyone-deserves-a-second-chance-slash-philanthropistā almost killing him and leaving him there in favor of saving Joker?
Nope, sorry. There aint no coming back from that sort of shit.
A real fatherā or hell, even a good MENTORā would have tried to compromise with the miracle of a (child) man standing there. Would have gone weak kneed with disbelief-grief-hope.
So yeah, I think Bruce failed Jason in almost every way possible.
Bruce saw a cold hearted killer in the Red Hood, a failed project. A rogue soldier. His mistake.
In reality, Red Hood is a scared, angry teenager that just wanted a single ounce of proof that he wasnāt discarded like a stray dog at the first chance they got.
#musings#just my opinion#totally get it if some have another interpretation#this is my take on it tho ;3#ghost talks#jason todd#under the red hood#red hood#Batman#Bruce Wayne
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Iāve been trying to use my brain.. and have started making opinionsā¦ or like coming to my own interpretations.. (SCARY)
I actually quite like the idea that sideswipes equally, if not more.. just as dangerous as sunstreaker or like, He COULD.. be but heās just WAYYY more silly, goofy, easy going? and like way better with people so everyoneās just kinda like
Yeah yeah šš that guys so chill, nevermind with him itās the other one donāt piss off
DO YOU GET ME!? Or am I going craycray in my brainrot..


#Sideswipesjetpack Headcanons?? Iām falling deep in the tf rabbit hole Iām starting to make my own opinions#maccadam#transformers#sideswipe#tf sideswipe#sunstreaker mention#THEY WONT LEAVE MY BRAIN#HELPPP IM BEING TAKENO OVER BY LAMBOTWIN ROTTTTT#theyāre all over my tumblr feed..#this isnāt a complaint#sorry this isnāt grammatically correct nor eligible but Iām running on fumes#I love themā¦#ramblingā¦ about themā¦.#the infestation is growing my fascination only growing#Idk man Iām new to fandoms donāt smite me..#fck it we ball this is MYā¦ blog I can throw my character headcanons on it if I wantā¦.#ps working on sideswipe drawing because Iāve done a million sunshineās itās only fair I give (my muse) twin the same attention#lambo twins#sunstreaker
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it fascinates me how often a choice of first or - gasp - second person storytelling can create so much derision and discourse. having preferences is fine obviously, and as a writing choice it Does matter, because all writing choices matter. i don't really... notice?? anymore??? or like, i DO notice, but more in a "what information will the narrative give me access to" kind of way.
i know second person especially can be jarring if you're not used to it, because it's "he would not fucking say that" but for yourself. but it's also like... so many song lyrics have "you" and "i" and to me they're just. a story that exists separate from me. (to the degree lyrics exist to me at all as something other than Sounds that are part of a music piece, but that's the audio processing disorder/'did not grow up with english as a first language and never bothered to decode lyrics' of it all speaking)
i suspect a lot of derision towards first person narratives comes from a derision towards the genres in which it is a staple, rather than that it's somehow uniquely bad. there's really not much difference between a first person perspective and limited third person perspective??
#when i read the night circus by erin morgenstern many years ago the second person interludes were so alien and strange to me#what a bold and fascinating choice!! along with the black edges of the pages the book felt so strange and unique!!!#fast forward to now. reads a good short story. sees comment balking at the second person narration. realises i didn't even notice#also this is just me musing abt stuff i am not trying to discourse or discard anyone's very real feelings n opinions#ive also been thinking abt song lyrics and how many people take them as something deeply personal and by neccessity relatable#and like that's often the intention of the music!!!! it can be something so deeply personal!!!#i rarely think of music as relatable on account of. well mostly i don't hear most of the lyrics#second a lot of the music i listen to is like. folk music as a form of storytelling#and third a lot of music abt falling in love and stuff is just not gonna resonate with an aroace person and that's. so much music#my personal music priorities are Vibes and Banginess. i#am so sleepy rn
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the thing about bj ā since yes, metatextually he was created mid-show to slot in next to hawkeye ā is he has very little personality traits that are not extant in direct opposition to or conversation with someone else. he's jealous of hawkeye and angry about being separated from his family. he's dependent on and possessive about his wife. other than that ā who the hell is he? he likes puns. (he's good at his job & he's a Good American Man but these are not really personality traits.) the only other thing i can point to is his mean streak/penchant for pranks, and even that comes from his relationship with leo.
idk i was thinking about an au where bj & trapper swap places (bj shows up first, with frank & oliver) and i won't stop thinking about it anytime soon now bc i have no strong ideas about who he'd be before hawk shows up. and how would that affect who he becomes when hawk does show up? does he build a still with him? my instinct is no, but . i simply don't know
#this is mostly musing but i would be interested in other people's opinions if this sparks thinky thoughts#this is so in line with enneagram 9s though lmaooooo. the dichotomy of 9s: radar on one end; bj on the other#*#mash#bj hunnicutt
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I think the ideas that
āRaven is a bad parentā
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āRaven loves their childrenā
Can and should co exist. I will never sit here and say Mystique is a good parent, but I think acting like they donāt love their children is just being willfully ignorant of their characterization since the 80s.
I see a lot of people try to claim Raven doesnāt care about their kids. I actually think they care a LOT, it just, doesnāt deter their actions. And theyāre not a good parent, donāt get me wrong, but that doesnāt mean they donāt love Kurt and Rogue and I think trying to claim they donāt actually does away with a lot of Ravenās character nuance.

A lot of the tragedy and depth of their relationships come from the fact that Raven DOES love their children, but itās not enough. And Kurt and Anna Marie know that, and thatās part of the tragedy of it too.
Iām not a Mystique defender, but I am a Raven Darkhƶlme characterization realist. A lot of people flatten their character to add more sympathy to Kurtās story especially, which feels kinda iffy to me. But thatās for another post.
From a storytelling perspective, it adds so much more depth and tragedy to all characters involved to not make the relationship so shallow and one sided as āOh Mystique doesnāt love themā, and even to juxtapose Ravenās relationship to them with Ireneās is a whole other thing I may talk about one day. But like, you do the story injustice to flatten it down to just āOh Mystique sucksā
Tl;dr - Raven Darkhƶlme is a shitty parent but they do love their kids. And thatās the whole tragedy of the thing
#my post#I have so many thoughts feelings and opinions on this topic#Raven is not a good parent or person really#but they love their children#and they do try to show that#in their own way#itās just rarely#like#good#the thing about x men is that nothing is ever totally black and white#including characterization#the x men characters require nuance#especially Mystique#raven darkholme#mystique#x men#x men comics#kurt wagner#nightcrawler#rogue#rogue xmen#anna marie lebeau#character thoughts#musings
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ā Has new canon material ever forced you to adjust your headcanons?
//lmao. so about indigo disk!
//yeahno i'm still clinging to like, a few of my headcanons mostly in regards to carmine's relationship with briar, because like. when i started this blog i was originally not planning nor expecting to be one of the few carmines here and mostly just made this as a companion account to my main pokeirl OC.
//and then indigo disk happened and kind of made me scramble to like, actually realize carmine and be able to put my best foot forward in trying to play her. and i don't know if i do a good job! but i am at least trying. indigo disk didn't throw TOO many curveballs my way at least, especially given that kieran's dive into the edgezone was something i sorta thought would happen lmao
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in my mind palace bachira and nagi have the biggest cocks in blue lock
#you donāt expect it from either of them but for different reasons#obv bachira isnāt a big guyā¦heās very average. so youāre shocked that he has a monster in his pants#as for nagiā¦nagiās very tall and while heās def fit heās more lean#and i guess itās his (often) nonchalant disposition but he doesnāt carry himself like a guy w a big dick#itās not a big deal to him?????? like. he doesnāt rly care abt dick measuring contests#itās kinda like his soccer skills; heās just genetically hashtag blessed#i also think unfortunately for you that heās really really good with it#heās a wild card in bed to me. you donāt think heād be as intense as he is#something something genius monster on the field genius monster in bed#ofc bachira is also insane in bed and can wield his dick like a weapon but then again heās more outwardly Freaky#this may be an unpopular opinion and i must admit i am biased against barou but even still i think bachira and nagi have the biggest dicks.#donāt even get me started about how much of a size queen reo is jfbdjksjdsksks#btw this isnāt me calling anyone elseās dick small i just think they both have the whole hog in their pants nod nod nod#nyeah#*chokes and dies*#ā musings#ā blue lock#ā bachira meguru#ā nagi seishiro
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I've seen so many people express disinterest in Dawntrail by saying something along the lines of "there's nothing in it for me". And I'm going to be honest, I don't really understand this sentiment.
When I began playing ARR, I didn't know anything about the world or the people or the characters or why my own character should care about any of it. I was set down in an unfamiliar world and expected to just walk around doing generic quests waiting for something interesting to happen to my character. With Dawntrail, the WoL is a well established character with a characteristic love of travel, discovery, and the world and people at large. The WoL is traveling with well known companions, and has clear goals to pursue while getting to explore a whole new continent. Comparatively, there is far more "in it for us" in DT than there was at the beginning of ARR. (Unless you played 1.0, but the majority of players have not.)
You never have investment at the beginning of a story, whether it's a game or book or movie or anything else. You become invested over the course of the story, as you learn more about the world and characters. Going into Dawntrail, we have the advantage, first, of knowing that the devs have an excellent track record of creating complex characters, fascinating worlds and compelling stories. And second, we have the advantage of having been shown a great deal of the world we are about to enter.
Personally, I have found all of the images and information about Tural hint at some amazing worldbuilding. It's a completely different kind of place from what we're used to and I find that very exciting. I love diverse regions and intricate cultures and getting to explore them in game. If you don't... well I have to wonder why you're playing this game.
Similarly, if you've developed your WoL to be someone contradictory to their canon characterization, someone who doesn't like to travel and experience new places and people and who would not be interested in Wuk Lamat and Krile's goals... Well, it's kind of on you if you don't feel there's anything "in it for you" in this expansion. Because it's clearly been purposefully crafted to appeal to the canon WoL, the one that SE is telling their story about.
And while I completely understand the desire to develop characters that deviate from the msq and experience the world of FFXIV in other ways, I don't quite understand playing the game but not wanting to experience the story as the devs have made it. You can so easily do both.
Getting to experience the devs' story, to explore their world and meet their characters, is always what's most exciting to me about new expansions. I can enjoy the story for what it is and then decide how I want to apply it to my WoL's development. And I appreciate how much work they put into creating this experience for me and the fact that they do encourage us to create alongside them.
Of course, it's not wrong to feel that there's "nothing in it for you" in this new expansion. But they've been very clear about the fact that this is the beginning of a new story full of unfamiliar elements. So I'm just not sure what some people expected.
#Dawntrail#Dawntrail thoughts#thoughts and musings#for the record I don't dislike ARR but I do find it very slow going in the beginning#apologies if I offend anyone these are just personal opinions
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Never been able to see the parallels between Usopp leaving the crew and Sanji leaving. I suppose they both fight Luffy but the reason and context is completely different. As far as I recall, Usopp is the only one who ever leaves by questioning Luffy's authority and saying he had been thinking about it for awhile e.g. that he couldn't keep up with the others (Luffy).
Yes I know there's more complexity to it than that, but he is explicit about the fact that he wants to leave. In comparison, when Robin leaves its "I have a darkness chasing me you can't understand so we must part ways"; with Nami its "we spent time together but it was never for the long haul"; with Sanji its first "gotta go deal with something, don't worry" and then its "you're beneath me, I'm a prince". In none of those statements do any of them expressively say "I want to leave and I will fight you over this issue that you are making a bad decision over"*
There's variety over how to understand what they each mean (with Robin it's figuring out where she stands; with Nami its just sticking around; with Sanji its forcing him to admit how he really feels). None of which would have worked with Usopp -- it seemed clear as to where he stood, sticking around for him was counter to what he was saying, and if Luffy had pressured Usopp to say how he really felt (if what he was saying wasn't what he meant) then Luffy would have dismissed Usopp's conviction to challenge him in a fight.
I could maybe see an argument that the situation with Usopp gave Luffy more insight when Sanji left, but on the other hand, it has more in common with Robin and Nami than Usopp -- someone vanishes without explanation and tries to drive the others away. That's not at all how Usopp left.
*which Luffy is ultimately right about
#one piece#usopp#monkey d. luffy#sanji#nami#nico robin#narrative parallels#one piece musings#brought to you by nothing but an old idea that lingers in my mind#this also got a longer than i intended and it's not even that long#my brain is actually more interested in one piece and economics right now#but this just sits with me sometimes#my intention was to do a more in depth comparison of the four situations with literary analysis of the scenes#wsd opinion piece
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Plz vote and reblog! Also if anyone would like to share their thoughts on how the character they chose should be written/characterized/casted, I would be delighted to read! š©ļø
#kaos show#netflix kaos#kaos series#kaos poll#kaos netflix#kaos#greek gods#greek mythology#kaos musings#kaos opinions#mostly hoping for Aphrodite Hermes and Artemis#oh and Apollo
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There are some essential types of autism representation in media
Accidental and/or autobiographical (usually good but also usually not canon)
Tries way too hard and just ends up being awkward if not offensive
Flawed in some way or another but positively surprises you with a random nuance you didn't expect to see portrayed
Actually good canonical autism representation (rare)
Whatever the fuck John Finnemore's writing has going on (affectionate)
Whatever the fuck Sia's writing has going on (extremely derogatory)
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