#my time cannot be wasted

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

IT WAS ME. BLAME ME CHILD. I WILL FALL FROM GRACE. DO ITTTT

ITS DONT DOWRRY ALEX I DONT MIND ANYRMORE I KNOW IT WAS @queermarzipan AND I FORGVIE HIM FOR IT

I read good omens the book till the switching winking and i m so inmlove with crowleu you dont wunderstand

my love for crowleu soohes all wounds

im so love for him crowley he says pray he doesnt and flees it says flees on my anxious baby ill portect you

and crowley is so adorbale he guylps and he put petrol for sitckelrs OYU KNOW CROWLEY I LOVE CSTICKINGS STOO I WOULD DO THAT ILL GIVE YOU MY STICKERS WE CAN SHARE SHARING IS CARING

AND HES DECRIBED A SO YUNG MAN OH MY PETITE AMOUR SHES SO AODRABLE ILL DO EVERYTHING FOR CROWLEY

IN SHORT I HAVE NO ENERGY FOR WNAYTHING EXCEPT CROWLEY YOU UNDRSTAND

[watsonyouare-the-one-fixed-point]

ONE WORD. ONE WORD AND HE SHUT UP.

everyone is welcome to draw their own conclusions

[mystery-pixels]

I've decided to go for move in ready houses for homes in Ender Falls. If not, then it would never get finished because I could not furnish that many houses. I've put down some of my older houses and am going to building up some new ones, this is one of the new ones!

[yuri-is-online]

Love and Deepspace Timeline: MC, Philos, and the Aether Core

Look I finished Xav's myths card. I don't regret waiting until I was done with it to post his timeline because the last two nodes have more to do with MC than him, but I am in a state so we are making this to cope.

This is all speculation and should not be taken as fact, I have done two other posts, one on Zayne and one on Xavier and I will not be doing one on Rafayel please see this reddit post by u/joonmin for relevant information about his myths card blah blah blah.

This post is less of a timeline and more here to answer questions you very likely have if you: A) decided to browse reddit and saw people saying Xavier feels like the "cannon ro" [this is a gacha game there isn't one] but have never read any of his memories, moments, or dates B) read chapter 8 and went "none of this makes sense I feel like I am missing something" or C) just generally are confused about L&D's world building and what's up with MC. I have answers for you. Wibbly wobbly soupy answers. This post also has a TL;DR in case you don't want to see me break out the string board and just want the relevant bits of information about MC you won't get from the msq.

SPOILERS FOR ALL IN GAME CONTENT UP TO CHAPTER 8, VARIOUS MOMENTS, AND ANECDOTES RELATED TO ALL 3 ROS, PROCEED WITH CARE.

Current Timeline MC (i.e. The one we are playing as)

The game starts with MC's graduation from the Academy and first day as a fully licensed hunter. We learn a few things in this first chapter, namely that MC is combat trained, has a rare heart condition known as Protocore Syndrome that has no known cure, and that her decision to become a hunter has something to do with what she experienced fourteen years ago during the Catastrophe when the Deepspace Tunnel opened and Wanderers started invading earth.

Specifically MC describes something burrowing itself into her heart. She feels helpless, like prey, and has a strong desire to never feel anything like this again. Which is unfortunate because I have a feeling a lot of someones are going to be on her trail sooner rather than later.

In Chapter 5 it is revealed that MC has an Aether core fused to her heart. This sort of human experimentation is highly illegal and it is unknown who did this to MC other than our beloved Grandmother was directly involved. Grandma appears to have taken MC away from wherever this happened after the tests started to threaten MC's life.

This is known to Dr. Zayne and Dr. Noah, though neither seem to know more than what Grandma told them. Neither of them seem to fully understand what an Aether core is or what it is doing to MC's heart. Zayne in particular seems to find this extremely concerning.

Uncovering the mystery of the Aether core seems to be what will be driving the first arc so we will not be discussing it at length here. I do want to note that Xavier absolutely knows what it is, while Zayne does not but does seem to know more of the technical aspects of how it is effecting MC, and Rafayel is at least aware of it being valuable and maybe why exactly the people in the N109 Zone want it.

At some point in the past MC met and made a promise to Rafayel. It is my personal theory that this likely took place on Hat Island during the field trip MC talks about due to some of the comments made in Chapter 7.

MC and Caleb were friends with Zayne in childhood. MC's exact age is a bit fuzzy, but the game does seem to suggest she is younger than Zayne. She does not know why Zayne disappeared from her life or what led him to become a doctor.

Comments in Chapter 4 suggests that Caleb encouraged MC to become a hunter. He seems to be very supportive of her, but Grandma seems more interested in trusting MC's protection to Zayne.

On the surface MC seems pretty normal. Her memories from before the Catastrophe seem to be gone, if she had a mother and father or other blood relatives, she doesn't remember them anymore.

Philos MC (i.e. What is Going on in the Myths)

It is revealed in Xavier's When Shooting Stars Fall anecdote that Philos is Earth in the distant future. This has confused numerous people in the notes of my Xav's timeline so I am going to be insufferable and attempt to assist with a graph:

The MC you play belongs to the game timeline, the MCs (plural each myths card features a different one) in the Myths cards come from the Philos timeline. I have tagged the Game timeline as a "potential tangent" as the events that take place in game are entirely reliant on the existence of the Deepspace Tunnel, which is created in the Philos timeline.

At some point in the Original/Philos Timeline, Earth's core ceases to function. Humanity replaces it with a new, artificial core that causes noticeable weather changes and fuses all of the tectonic plates together, and begins a new calendar counting forward from the years since Earth ceased to be and Philos was born. As a result, we don't know what exact year Earth's core giving out happened in the Original Timeline. The artificial core allows almost all humans to "live eternal." They seem to be like Tolkien's elves in the sense they can live for an eternity but they start to get tired after a while and give up on life. This is why there is a royal family that needs a line of succession. Xavier is the Crown Prince of Philos, he meets MC in school and learns she has a rare disease called Protocore Syndrome which will not allow her to live forever. He attempts to cure this by finding a specific protocore she mentions, but fails to reach her in time and is forced to watch her die. This all happens in the year 214.

At some point MC is reborn and assigned to the same teacher as Xavier. She is to train to become his knight and serve as the leader of the Lightseekers, an order tasked with killing Wanderers. At some point during or before Xavier's coming of age ceremony, he learns the truth about Philos: the planet is dying due to the artificial core never having been meant to sustain the planet this long. The Royal Family's solution for this is to occasionally feed humans to the heart of Philos in Starfall Forest. When they do this, it creates Wanderers. As if that wasn't bad enough, Xavier learns that his father and the royal family have found what they think could be a permanent solution: there is a girl who has achieved true immortality. She is the only person on Philos who can die and be reborn constantly, and while they don't seem to know why she does this, the royal family believes this girl is the life force of the planet itself.

This girl is MC and Xavier does not want this to happen. He has a plan that he does not explain to MC, but it involves traveling back in time. He says they have specific places in time picked out, but we know from Xavier's Passing By anecdote that something went wrong with his team's attempt at time travel and now there is no guarantee that the MC he left on Philos as its Queen is still there.

So now we have two timelines: Original/Philos Timeline and Game/Tangent Timeline. But all of that is just taking Xavier's anecdotes and Myths card into account... so what happens if we try to plug in the other two ROs?

Rafayel

In u/Joonmin's reddit post they mention two very important bits of information: 1) It has been 30,000 years since the sea dried up and 2) MC is a member of the royal family of Philos, not by birth but because "she has a heart that’s been blessed by the gods" and has "awoken from the depths." If all three myths cards take place in the same Philos timeline as the one Xavier leaves, we can reasonably place Raf's myths card after Xavier's backtrack mission.

So the Philos timeline would look like this. I have a note for Zayne's card there as well, but if I had to get picky with it I'm slightly tempted to place his Myths card between MC's first death and her being reborn to meet Xavier again. The other explanation would be that there are three separate Philos timelines created because the MC was successfully scarified to the Heart of Philos. In Xavier's Myths 6 MC briefly takes a dip in the space time anomaly at the center of Starfall Forest which could also explain MC scattering across different timelines, but the in game spacepedia makes a point to say that there is a chance that life still exists on Philos:

So it could simply be that MC over there has been stuck in the exact cycle of death and rebirth that Xavier was trying to prevent. It could also mean that when they add that mystery fourth love interest there is an explanation for a fourth possible myths card. Anyway all this information leaves us with a set of timelines that currently look like this:

This still leaves a lot of unanswered questions. For example, if the Philos timeline is where this all starts, what version of it is? What caused Earth's core to give out in that original timeline? Is Rafayel and Lumeria's existence the consequences of clashing timelines or are mermaids cannon to this universe? What effect on the space time continuum did Xavier's actions have? And how much of this is actually going to be answered in game?

TL;DR

Philos is Earth in the future with an artificial core that started running out of power, and never should have been made in the first place.

The royal family fed some of their long lived humans to the anomaly in Starfall forest to keep the planet running, but then they found out about a girl who could constantly be reborn each time she died and had an idea.

An idea Xavier wasn't very keen on but who cares. They thought that "when the time was right" they would sacrifice her to the rift and leave her there to die and be reborn forever. They also did not think to ask her.

Oh yeah when they fed people to the rift they turned into Wanderers. So wanderers = people as mentioned in Zayne's Still in the Dark anecdote.

Whatever makes MC reincarnate might have something to do with Lumeria, or at the very least the Lumerians in Rafayel's myths card seem to think it does.

In game MC, current timeline MC knows none of this, and has no memories from her lives, past or future. This is consistent across all her incarnations.

Final Thoughts

The only reason why I think this way about timelines is because I watched Donnie Darko in a college theater class. People like to argue about that movie and how it is supposed to be interpreted, but generally speaking they all seem to think that Tangent Timelines and the Tangent Universes they spawn get deleted very quickly, so maybe that's why the game starts by talking about "being able to leave this loop" and why Xavier seems to think something bad will be happening to Linkon City soon.

Chapter 8 ends with Xavier attempting to send a message back through the Deepspace Tunnel to make contact with someone. Interestingly enough he calls this "Traceback II." This sounded familiar to me and sure enough the game starts by mentioning that exact same thing, it is going past a black hole and is what says that line "we are stuck in this loop."

I thought in previous posts that the Aether Core is what could cure MC... but now I think the Aether Core is likely what Philos's artificial core is called... so who created it in the first place? ｢(ﾟﾍﾟ)

The Deepspace Tunnel is a spacetime anomaly likely caused by Philos's existence since it was "never meant to exist." So why was it created? And by who?

[unhetalia]

I think Nations are generally stronger than the average human. If an adult male can carry up to 80kgs without too much difficulty, a fully grown Nation can do around 3x that amount, no matter their gender.

Alfred is an abberation in that he could carry animals that weigh at LEAST 400kg as a child. This has nothing to do with the US' status as a superpower because it's been that way since he was a child (and also because my headcanon doesn't connect the Nations with their countries in that way).

Without delving too deep as to why, I've always liked the idea of Alfred's increased strength coming with a few caveats -

1) As he's gotten older, his strength has acquired limitations it never had when he was a child - the main one being that using it requires energy. If he wants to be able to lift a car, he absolutely can, but he needs to eat a lot, otherwise his blood sugar will crash. Alfred eats a lot and constantly, and this is part of the reason (the other part is that food is delicious).

2) Alfred is so used to relying on his strength, it's become his weakness without him even realising it.

Alfred views exercise the same way most modern humans view it: he exercises to stay healthy. He hikes, he bikes, he plays sports, and if he thinks he's gained weight he promises himself he'll go to the gym (he doesn't).

Nations like Arthur, Ivan, Erzsebet and Gilbert - to name a few - who don't have super strength, hone their bodies into weapons with purpose. I love to imagine (for many reasons) a sweaty Arthur, hands wrapped in boxing gauze and wearing a tank top ... erm. Punching stuff. I distracted myself there. ANYWAY. They're incredibly disciplined about maintaining their skills and fitness.

Alfred is reliant on his super strength. If it disappears one day, he's actually a lot less capable of defending himself than he thinks.

[nadiajustbe]

Underrated HMC moments I've never seen anyone talking about part 1

Martha canonically teaching Sophie to swear

Fanny getting girls to talk about their fate not only after the funeral, but RIGHT after it. They didn't even got to change their clothes

Fanny and ms. Fairfax being old school friends, just as Fanny is the only one calling Fairfax by her first name.

Justin cannonically visiting Market Chipping shortly after Ben was taken by the Witch, being "in disguise"

Michael saying he always wanted a dog!

Howl going up and down the stairs while working with important stuff to look out of the window of his room. Sophie suggested that he's doing something very sinister, but he probably just wanted to see his nephews playing something like hide-and-seek in the yard.

Howls books being described as "queer-looking" (lol), suggesting he sneaks his library from Wales

Howl joking with ms. Pentstemmon's servants and overall acting completely relaxed in her presence

Sophie laying both of her hands on the stick, trying to mimic ms. Pentstemmon's behavoiur in order to feel more confident (it didn't work)

Sophie wishing to HIT KING'S HEAD with said stick instead of kissing his hand after she failed to blacken Howl's name

ms. Pentstemmon being the only person in Ingary who calls both Howell Jenkins and Benjamin Sullivan by their legal names

Bonus: Howl arranging old hat shop's house the way it would resemble his old mentor's chessboard-like floor pattern.

Howl violently waving his hand both to Michael and then Sophie while trying to act as gracefully as possible.

Howl's clothes having a whole winx-like animation, with blurring and merging into sparkles when changing from his suits to his jersey

Michael absolutely HATING jeans and being physically unable to walk with them on

Sophie thinking than no one's on the streets of Wales because of the rain. On the streets of WALES. Because of the RAIN.

Howl having his own set of keys from Megan's house

Megan knowing how to knit

Sophie being absolutely amazed by amount of carpets in Meg's house, probably because in medieval-like Ingary good carpets were pretty expensive

Neil and his friends swearing with the words "Sophie thought even Martha didn't know"

Michael and Sophie thinking that Howl wanted to kill his nephew by plugging his video-game off

HOWL MAKING A WHOLE GAME BASED ON HIS OWN MOVING CASTLE

Meg shouting that Mari shouldn't seat on the wet swing

Gareth (Megan's husband) playing baseball with Neil

Howl swearing he hasn't preformed a single spell in his life "with his hand on his heart". What heart.

Alternatively: ms. Angorian saying she "feels in her heart" that Ben is alive. whAT HEART, WITCH OF THE WASTE'S???

ms. Angorian getting all her actor skills to act confused as If she sees Ingary for a fist time. "Oh, what a strange-looking town!" "Oh, what a strange-looking people!"

Ben loving his guitar so much he apparenly took it with him on his mission on the Wastes

(this guitar being the only thing we know Ben took from Wales)

Percival being given the said giutar as a baby being given a rattle

Percival processing to play the said guitar for about three hours trying "to teach himself how to play" and adjusting it immideatly

Sophie swearing for about a page straight after meeting the king.

[nikosdaydreams]

I decided to reread that article uhjjsks the "Robespierre and Saint-Just Monsters of the French Revolution Got Their Heads Lopped Off" yeah that one idk why I just wanted to feel something

It worked actually I now have immeasurable rage!

[goldkirk]

hey this isn’t aimed at anyone in particular but I’m saying it for the record here: if I tell you no, please stop messaging me about fundraisers and mutual aid.

I get enough messages that it’s impossible for me to keep up without devoting at least half an hour each day, when I’m not even on tumblr that long most days. Me having a boundary about this isn’t a moral failing, it’s a lifeboat for me on my own blog.

In my personal life I’m already advocating and donating literally as much as I can spare. This is not me not caring, it’s just me not willing to interact with that on the one place I go online to not interact with irl news and world events for the most part.

I cannot be upset all the time. I cannot be upset everywhere. I cannot use all my emotional and mental energy fielding my own upset from ongoing events. My options are to hold boundaries about this or stop coming online at all.

I’m all for sharing information and signal boosting to reasonable extents, but the scale of it this year is so large and so enduring that it is literally not possible to for me to participate on every account I have. I’ve previously shared links to Gaza eSIM donations and a major hub of verified Go Fund Mes here and elsewhere online. We, the online humans, know how to look those things up ourselves by now. There are many, many people choosing to do advocacy work, and right now, I can’t be one of them.

If you’re extremely upset when I tell you I can’t share/donate right now about a Gaza family or personal fundraiser you ask me to share here, just unfollow and block me. That’s what those buttons are for. Protect your own emotions and energy and get me off your feed instead of staying upset and continuing to engage with online people or content that upsets you.

Please don’t send repeated angry messages based on manufactured purity politics and moral outrage into my messages and inbox when I exercise the right to run my own blog.

[nellandvoid]

me: man i'm surprised there aren't more reader inserts for severance

the demon in my brain: :)

me: well fuck

[anonymocha]

finally coming out as a dyke in 2023 is realizing i dont need to pretend to simp that Guy just because everyone else in my friend group does

[draconicsplendor]

I love you indie web I love you Neocities I love you hobby sites held together with duct tape I love you passion I love you whimsy I love you joy

And I am killing SEO with hammers. It’s for the greater good >:3

[yellowistheraddest]

happy birthday to that guy with the fuckin... hat? or wait,,, no the guy... who chews gum..? well what ever

[vehemourn]

went to post this on twitter but i didnt wanna get banned . crazy that u can scrape my entire lifes work and i cant even tell u to die over it <3

[gottagetgogottagetattahere]

Knives is such a hypocrite and a liar and he lies most of all to himself and i hate him but i also love it. Bro's so coked up on copium all the time.

Claims to be doing it all for the sake of Plants, then arguably takes away their agency and freedom way more than humans ever could. Claims to be doing it for his brother and literally ruins his brother's life in every possible turn. Claims humanity never learns from their mistakes and it literally takes dying for him to stop doubling down on his bullshit. the medical abuse done unto tesla horrified him so much and yet he is directly responsible to the same abuse being subjected to countless of children.

Given the chance, I would love to be his sleep paralysis demon. i do not think I could fix him, but I think I can drive him to early retirement from super villainy.

[gaminegay]

talking bout drugs

I hate sounding like the teenager your mom warned you about bc i am SO not immune to addiction (and I am trying to be super duper careful at least now I am) but it makes sense doesn't it.

I did drug, my brain got 1 (one!!) night where there wasn't a chemical cocktail of sadness and fear being pumped into it every single minute (and actually fun and pleasant and relaxed chemicals instead), and now a week later I just kinda feel lighter and more relaxed. I'm not fixed and this is very temporary, but at least for a little while I remember a really good night where I had no worries or pains and everything felt good and looked really good. I felt good about my body and I could talk myself up without the reflexive self-diminishing shame that follows the admittance that sometimes you're a cool person!! And doing good makes you feel good! And I got more physically close with my friend than ive been with almost any other person (besides my ex) and it changes nothing in our relationship so im never worried. I actually kinda feel like that's what human relationships should be like, if religion and misogyny hadn't ruined the concept of the human body.

I don't remember the last time I got a break from myself like that for more than like, a few good minutes, since before The Great Depression. And like they're considering a lot of these drugs as therapy for depression and PTSD and anxiety and all that, and I can see it! just reminding the brain that it's POSSIBLE to operate differently is huge.

And there's not even a hangover. As long as you have 4 gatorades around.

[twilight-deviant]

Just gonna put some BA 1x04 Fisk thoughts down. Honestly, don't even read this.

I wish I had more to dissect in Born Again, but so much of it is very surface level, innit. Like yeah, Vanessa moved closer on the couch in therapy, and now she and Fisk have the short side of the table between them instead of the long. She's making an effort. They're becoming close again. Blah, blah, blah. Very apparent symbolism we all noticed. I feel like I'm being starved of anything nutritious.

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I hate you therapy plot. I hate you so much. You're so dumb and unnecessary. (You won't see me reblogging gifs of it or anything because I don't support this filler trash.)

Also Heather's kind of a not great, not at all impartial therapist, isn't she? "Vanessa, tell me what interested you about another man right here in front of Wilson." It's kinda clear Heather doesn't like Fisk, and considering how much she's listened to her boyfriend talk smack about him (before even meeting), I'd question how she ever could be impartial. Girl, maybe recuse yourself? I still can't believe we wasted Heather Glenn's name on this nonsense. (◡_◡)

And I feel like no one mentions how dirty they're doing Vanessa by making her have an affair. You can tell how desperately they want to justify their own decision by constantly bringing it back to Fisk's mental breakdown absence and even having Vanessa condemn her mother's behavior in a similar situation. (Do two women's wrongs make a right, or does BA just hate women?) I'm sorry, I think I just lack patience for writing that wants a bad plot and then bends over backwards and breaks characters to force them into it. And still there is no indication of why they're doing this to Vanessa and the relationship, and I assume whatever payoff they have in mind will hardly be worth the destruction.

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Love to get a, "When I was a boy." Followed by Fisk not answering a question for 3-to-5 business days. BA doing something right. ............Hate how they didn't stick the landing. Guys, the topic was domestic abuse. All you had to do was have Fisk mention the violence he learned from his father, but the one thing he did not learn to commit was how the man treated his mother. You came so close. 🤏 I'm actually quite angry they didn't mention Marlene at all in that moment (making the subject of abuse about the abuser and forgetting the victim), but I'm holding it in so well. 👍

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That said, I kinda look forward to that basement being where Fisk keeps Adam and Rabbit in a Snowstorm. Since we know from trailers that this scene exists.

Considering Fisk's return to wearing white and us seeing Vanessa attend the gala, thus being active in Fisk's political life, I think it's safe to say one of both of them will kill this man. Also, Vanessa obviously doesn't care about Adam. Never did. She just wants to see Fisk be himself again, with her. Something we could have arrived at in multiple ways without making Vanessa have an affair.

At least now we know the identity of the long-haired guy Fisk was fighting in that basement in the trailer.

I truly, genuinely wish I cared more, but that's all going to depend on if they can write/direct this with any sort of competence. I'm keeping my expectations on the ground.

But I would like to thank shipperfiendobssesser for bringing a very obvious fact to my attention. It's now canon that Fisk is perfectly at ease keeping another man imprisoned in a cage for his own pleasure. ლ(╹◡╹ლ) I will take this vindication to heart as I continue writing said plot with Fisk/Matt. 🙏

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And then... I do think BA fails at making Fisk smart. One of the most clever things he said all of 1x04 was knowing that Heather asked Vanessa about her safety when he left the room. (This would notably be from one of the scenes they reshot after changes.)

The whole thing at the docks, I uuuugh. Yes, he's new to politics, and no, he is not college educated. But he's also one of the most aggressively self-taught characters imaginable. Someone who has read political science books since he was a child. He would especially learn as much as he could in the months before becoming mayor. Fisk does not suffer his own ignorance. (Remember in S2 when we see him in prison and he fills notebooks learning every single thing going on inside the walls??? Then he's running the place within months. That's Fisk!) But they want to paint him as entirely ignorant of bureaucracy so they can portray a slip in composure and a build of frustration. They want to lay the groundwork of him falling back into his old ways because he can't accomplish anything "the right way." Baby girl, I got news. Someone can have implicit understanding of the system and still not accomplish anything. That's politics. You didn't have to make Fisk ignorant to get the point across.

I dunno. It just sorta feels like... Well, you know how people say something along the lines of "you can't write a character smarter than yourself"? I feel like we're trapped in that. I wouldn't necessarily say the BA writers are dumb. Because I don't know them. (Not that I would dismiss it either.) I can say their writing is dumbing Fisk down. Because it is.

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And now that they confirm one dirty cop isn't responsible for Hector's death, I have to live in fear that writing will try to turn it around to pin on Fisk. (Due to a lack of other options right now. It's not going to be Frank, Bullseye, or Muse.) Even though it makes no sense whatsoever and contradicts everything established. I've already rambled about why. So even if it doesn't come true, I have to worry that it will. I'm tired.

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I kinda don't want to touch on the whole singing joke. It's whatever. More filler. Meh. But I guess I will. First off, Fisk loves kids, so jot that down. I would have loved a little something more than him mentally scratching at the door to leave. Second, they're being so unbelievably sloppy pushing a narrative of, "Fisk doesn't care about the people. He just wants to rule New York as a king." Especially apparent playing him not caring about the Latvian photo op versus Matt knowing/talking about Latvian Heritage Day. Seeeeeee? Villain versus hero, yes?

Sometimes I want to believe people understand Fisk. I thought by making him a co-lead character, BA would take the time to show his dimensions. But they're not interested in that. It's too much effort to say, "Fisk is a bad man who also cares about the people," and they can't be bothered. Too few writers are immune to the two-dimensional villain trap.

I think about the genius of DD S1 and how they had the forethought to introduce his kinder, human side with Vanessa first and then show the villain. I don't think we can ever have understanding like that again. I don't think we'll even get something like the comics where he's sided with heroes multiple times to protect citizens because they're what matter most.

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Born Again is writing my favorite character wrong, and I'm being so brave about it. 🥺 (Yes, there are aspects I still appreciate and maybe even adore, but they sure do feel outweighed.)

That's okay though. I already decided none of this is canon to the original series. Daredevil ended with 3x13. This is another reality in the multiverse. 👍