#she is sharp - finding creative applications of her tail; ie slingshotting sonic & blaze up; forming a harness to help carry whisper | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

lemurballing · 15 days ago

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the problem with tangle is she was written as an s tier character out of the gate, so you can’t really give her a character arc. she’s at the peak. you have to make her worse in order to make her better

#talking about how tangle physically - emotionally - intelligently - was great in all those categories #strong & agile & able to keep up with sonic’s friends; fight badniks already; even tackle super badniks or at least help to #emotionally? T&W. issue 24 in an awful situation & reassuring sonic who is in the same situation.#<- trying to check in on tails while he’s worried about sonic being infected #<- reassuring belle that her father would be proud of her #intelligently? she’s obviously not written as a genius like eggman or tails but thats not what i mean #she is sharp - finding creative applications of her tail; ie slingshotting sonic & blaze up; forming a harness to help carry whisper #-during the metal overlord arc; using the surprise factor of her tail to steal whisper’s mask in T&W 1; the simple ploy she tries with-#-orbot & cubot during her adventure with belle that ends up giving them info. she’s resourceful!#so the problem is if your character is already great at all these things. but you want to develop them as a character. AND not-#-overshadow every other character. you need to downgrade them first #so collapsing tangle to comic relief + physical brawler + happy-go-lucky & sacrificing her depth lets you make more problems #but the problem that causes is: you pretty obviously had to downgrade her for that. so its not satisfying when the arc concludes & -#-she learns. it’s like the multiple times in ben 10 where ben learns ‘oh saving people isnt for fame its for good’#OS with animo. UA. OV’s hypnomoth episode. he relearns this because if ben already knows this he’s simply a Good Hero #and that’s not as interesting as making him bad at things and wondering if he pulls through.

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