#poppy liwanag

[rhapsodyinferno]

ian and poppy

[a-dotrivenitupontop]

poppy liwanag is driving me crazy insane. poppy changing her last name likely to seem less filipino and more east asian. parallels to ian changing his first name. liwanag meaning light. light versus the ‘grimm’. continuation of the light/dark motif. when will this show stop Delivering. when.

[wizerdbattle]

Dropping this scene from the quarantine episode for your enjoyment(?) and then running away sobbing 🥲

[iamdeltas]

Poppy Liwanag really is The Character Ever. She's stunningly un self-aware and obnoxiously arrogant, but riddled with insecurities and self-esteem issues. She is equal parts adorable and horrific. Her strongest relationship is with someone she often can't stand and yet is the only one who really gets her. She is incredibly uncool and has absolutely Zero social skills, and she can't tell or understand jokes for the life of her, but she is capable of being wily enough to play coworkers she knows well against each other in order to get what she wants. She does not desire or seek friendship and frequently alienates everyone around her, but she is devastatingly lonely. She is a nightmare of a coworker and a boss and often contributes to the toxicity of her workplace, but is also a workaholic to a crippling degree to the point that when she feels like her life is falling apart, all she can do to stave off her feelings of misery and self-doubt is put in insane hours of work to the point of neglecting her own wellbeing. I would hate to know her in real life but I would give my own life up for her. I am fucking obsessed with her.

[farfartothewestofeverywhere]

LOOK AT THEM

[milogoestogreendale]

something something mythic quest women

[vinylattes]

THE LIWANAG FAMILY in MYTHIC QUEST (2020-) 3.07 (Sarian) | dir. Todd Biermann & Megan Ganz

[kaitcake1289]

my idea for modern day tracy liwanag!

more lore under the cut!

so in my mind tracy and poppy naturally drifted apart when tracy moved to the US to get a medical degree, eventually poppy went to MIT. despite living in the same country they rarely spoke aside from formalities.

i think they grow up to just tolerate each other but poppy tries to brag to her any time she can, which is rarely ever since tracys almost always working. tracy's a workaholic more than poppy, she has to be being an ER doctor.

poppy's always wondered what it's like living the way she lives, traditionally comfortably but in constant work motion, or is that exactly what she's doing? on the flipside tracy feels inadequate or even jealous of poppy because of how she's succeeded on living (what she thinks is) her dream life, while shes stuck in an endless labour cycle, or is that exactly what poppy thinks?

anyways eventually tracy moves back to Australia to be with family and poppy finds out she has a few weeks later through her parents and that in turn makes poppy feel bad now for staying in LA and never visiting. this fear builds on the fact that poppy's family doesn't reach out to her anymore, that she's the only kid that isn't coming back for her parents.

[butchcaseyjones]

how lucky were we to have three half asian characters in mythic quest. i think about this every day

[thatonescrunklycat]

either i’m stupid or i have a bad memory but i just found out that poppy is filo. either way, i’m lwk shitting myself because the character i most relate to just swore in tagalog and my life is complete now. i’m so starved of filo representation so this is to much to handle bro (in a good way!!)

[iamdeltas]

#and then he just wasn’t there. like the absentee father he is. (via @tartt-bi-con)

[icecoldtea]

'Sarian'

Mythic Quest's latest episode solidified my love for the show.

Not gonna lie, I struggled to finish S1. It was funny but also felt, at least to me, a bit...hollow? From the first few episodes, I gathered it would be a mildly funny show with an ensemble of tiresome stereotypes. It wasn't bad. But it felt forgettable.

Then in S2, the image of the show I'd built in my head started to crumble. Like, I thought I had the character dynamics all figured out, only for my predictions to be upended (in a good way). Scenes I'd dismissed as superficial filler jokes came back to punch me in the heart. Throwaway jokes? Nope. The random things characters say or do actually matter. For that, they feel like complex, layered, real people. The tremendous amount of care the writers put in them began to feel palpable.

And now, I've made it to S3. There's not much else for me to say other than: Mythic Quest is a great show. Go watch it.

[iamdeltas]

Me any time something bad happens to Poppy: Nooo she doesn't deserve this! ...though she kind of.... totally does... but no she doesn't deserve this, stop making her sad!

[farfartothewestofeverywhere]

I LOVE POPPY AND IAN SO MUCH I'M CRYING FOREVER

[iamdeltas]

#no but on a serious note it’s actually very refreshing#she’s pretty but it’s not a character trait. she’s smart but she’s not humble about it.#she doesn’t diminish her talents because she’s POPPY FUCKING LI lead engineer at mq and she knows she’s smart! she knows she’s awesome!#she’s proud of it and she wants more! she knows she’s equal (or better) than ian and fights for her rights in the game instead of just —#—being the cool humble laidback hot token woman in stem who only exists to hook up w the main character and then solve some overly —#—complicated problem once and then stand back in the shadows while the male main character resumes his place at the top#like shes so fucking awkward and weird and real and i love her so much i love her SO MUCH#what an amazing character design#i love your work megan ganz

as a female engineering student i am so grateful to have representation like poppy li. too many “woman in stem” characters are, on top of being really smart, also really cool and really pretty but POPPY is a piece of shit, awkward as hell, egotistical little gremlin addicted to candy, power, and validation. she is the smartest person at mythic quest and also the weirdest person you’ve ever met. i love her so much

[claudia-kishi]

the newest mq episode truly wrecked me in all ways possible. the girl playing child poppy deserves like every award on the planet. actually one of the best child acting performances i have ever seen.