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It's true, this man has no nose.
#this wet bandit failure#i wish we had more of him#ofmd#prince ricky#ghostbusters#our flag means death#the foil potential!!
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(holds all three in my hands) I just think they're neat
#listen Im not that into starop#but I do think Skyfire x Optimus (SkyOp?? JetOp?? they got some potential ship names) has some funny potential#skyfire and optimus trying to move on from their decepticon exes and falling in love with each other#meanwhile starscream in the back like ''exCUSE ME? YOU'RE DATING OPTIMUS FUCKING PRIME? NOT ON MY WATCH'' and becoming a weird third wheel#then they all kinda accidentally fall in love. all three of them. they try to make it work#I love the idea of ''divorced autobots trying to heal and learn to fall in love again while starscream tries to foil their relationship#only to accidentally fall in love with those two''#this is Also just the biggest middle finger they can give to Megatron and i think that's perfect#optimus looking at skyfire and starscream before going at megatron like ''well if you dont want them they can be with me''#megatron ''what''#imagining megs seeing his two greatest enemies and one of his traitor getting together. imagine being so shitty all your exes got together#the fire burns#the fire crackles with joy#low quality shitpost#transformers g1#transformers#skyfire#jetfire#starscream#optimus prime#skystar#starop#skyop#skystarop#new ship name dropped. at least their combined names actually work as a ship name
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The girls are plottinggggg
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#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wen chao#wang lingjiao#Realizing she was supposed to have an upper lip mole was a cold slap in the face. So sorry ma'am. I won't forget again.#They are evil dumbass 4 evil dumbass and I think we are all missing out on the sheer potential of the comedy between these two.#They have way too much power and are using it for the wrong reasons - which makes them truly great villains.#And when things don't go their way they become piles of whining sludge.#Wang Lingjiao is forever fascinating to me even though we only get crumbs about her.#She's a servant girl who's greatest asset is her beauty and her attractiveness.#Meaning she's had a life being in the gaze of people with significant positions of power over her.#I can't help but read her childishness and petty tantrums as someone who has finally been given the chance to not feel powerless.#If she was a more virtuous type we might 'like' her more but honestly...I don't think she would have survived to this point.#WLJ has only known power hierarchies her whole life. Probably accused of seduction before she even understood what that meant.#I love contrasting her with mianmian because they have similar(ish) backgrounds but different approaches to moving forwards#But WLJ's story is about flying too close to the sun and mianmian's is about going too close to the water.#Like the sea mist dragging her down into complacency - all the sect powerplays are mandatory to 'go along with' if she wants to climb-#-the social ladder. Yet she is the cautionary tale (and a foil to JGY as well) she leaves before sacrificing her own morals.#Mianmian flies away with her wings only slightly plucked while those who sacrificed everything to reach for the top crash and burn.
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Ok here's a little (not really) analysis/theory post about Hades 2, because I'm obsessed. Its consumed all my thoughts. And I need to talk about a theme I think will (hopefully) be addressed as the game progresses.
Here's some examples of dialogue that starts to touch on this conflict between mortals and the gods. What exactly do mortals deserve? We also have literal Icarus "flew too close to the sun" here too (and probably Pandora). Chronos was able to sway many to his side with a promise of a golden age without the gods, which is presented by the narrative as a foolish venture. And not saying it isn't, or that Chronos is the secret good guy here, but I believe Chronos is taking advantage of a very real hurt that exists for mortals.
This line from Nemesis really stood out to me, because it implies that while mortals have a concept of evil, the gods don't. Which sounds ridiculous but the more you think about it makes total sense. The gods in Hades (and just greek myth in general), are kind of the worst. They are petty and selfish, they literally attack you if their boon isn't picked first, and most vitally in this context, often utterly disregard mortals.
For example, one of the things that drove me a little crazy in Hades 1, was how chill everyone was with Demeter's never ending winter. Demeter was killing possibly millions upon millions of mortals and everyone else just sort of let it happen. Maybe complained a bit because it was annoying to them, but just stood by. And that's just one example. Mortal's have a very valid reason to hate the gods.
And considering we have more areas of the surface to explore that aren't out yet, I have a feeling Melinoë is going to be meeting some of these discontent mortals. And my hope is they are going to be nuanced characters, that will challenge Melinoë not just in a fight, but her very ideals.
Because Melinoë is very deferential to the gods, waaaaaay more that Zag ever was. Unlike Zag, who was more like a bro to them and was willing to suck up to them for personal gain, Melinoë seems to genuinely mean all the respect she gives them. She praises them, defends them when they are insulted, and just generally very polite to them.
In a smaller scale, she describes Hypnos as having a wisdom about him and can somehow sense her intensions while asleep. Which as Nem implies, the version in Melinoë's head doesn't exactly line up with reality (though sidebar, I am a believer in Chekov's Hypnos and that he's going to somehow save the day and put Chronos in a never ending sleep or something, but that's beside the point haha).
Melinoë's reverence to the gods makes total sense of course. She was denied her family and a happy childhood, and because of that has glorified them all in her head. The Olympians are sending her vital aid on her holy mission for vengeance and to save her family, even as their own home is being attacked, how honorable of them!
And I think part of Melinoë's arc is that perfect picture of them breaking into pieces. Yes, they are the better of the two options between them and Chronos, but that doesn't mean they aren't also kind of the worst. That mortals deserve better than frivolous gods that can decide on a whim their fates for better or worse (love u Moros but I'm still fucked up over you and your sisters giving mortals horrible doom endings when you were bored. At least he feels bad now but still. Perfect example of gods even when not intending to having horrific consequences for mortals). And maybe like how Zag healed relations with his family, Melinoë can start repairing relations between the Gods and Mortals.
#hades 2#hades game#hades ii#hades supergiant#hades#I also realized after finishing this that another example of the gods being shit is with Heracles#and considering how little dialouge of his is out yet#im super curious of what that'll bring about#but yeah as I said in the middle of this#I really want at least of the mortals in Chronos's army to be a proper character that interacts with Melinoë#oooooh maybe they can foil Melinoë and their family was killed due to some godly interference#theres just so much potential#hades 2 spoilers#edit: ahhhh i forgot my girl Arachne im sorry best girl#but yes further proving my point
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More reluctant king sabo au! I realized recently that this au is an excellent excuse for drawing sabo in pretty outfits that he would be absolutely miserable in :)
#one piece au#sabo#king sabo au#I have a very specific idea of sarie in my head.#in which she is largely a product of her upbringing#entitled but due to being given everything she wanted when she was raised#sheltered and poorly socialized because she was always above those who lived outside the castle#Sarie has the potential to be a good foil to sabo. I think their dynamic would be so interesting#because while I don’t think sabo is interested in love at all#I also don’t think sarie understands what love is outside of the fairytales she is allowed to read#and she must have such a twisted idea of love from growing up in the royal family where I’m sure there must have been fights over heirs#not to mention she must have so many people vying for her attention if whoever marries her is apparently third to the throne#it definitely must have been impressed upon her since she was young that she doesn’t marry for herself#or maybe she realizes this and is waiting for a fairytale knight in shining armor to take her away. idk#I do think that to her sabo is an odd superposition of a prince and a knight#I don’t think she ever really falls in love with him. she’s just so alienated from the concept of love and#someone who actually cares about her as a person that sabo being the first one floors her and convinces her she’s in love
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Me when I see a Gale/Astarion simp hating on the other: You FOOL they are parallels, foils, you cannot hate the one without the hating the other (I need blood/magic for nourishment or else I will die, they have a patron they are bound to, they are both bookworms, both can make terrible choices for the world, they have a magic the gathering homoerotic card art, both have the tsim just one is masked and the other is not, etc)
Also if you wanted a morally good man to romance, Wyll is right there.
#Astarion#Gale bg3#bg3#bloodweave#<- i want them to kiss like nasty#like all narrative foils should#I would do a whole essay on this but sum it up#Astarion is mostly bad with the potential to be good#while Gale is mostly good with the potential to be bad#In another life we got a Gale and Astarion confrontation like the others got#gale of waterdeep
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It worries me sometimes
how similar you both can be.
#pov you're a god in the FEH pantheon#Tactician duo lets goooooo#To IntSys Loki might just be a pretty lady but to me she's a pretty lady and interesting narrative foil.#The dynamic is basically:#When I did something wrong and now I have to call the most unethical person I know to convince me it's not a big deal and I'm being dramati#But god. The potential.#I could go on entire Ted Talk about Loki. I want her to be the thing we fear Kiran turning into. But alas thats a ted talk for another day.#feh#fire emblem heroes#fire emblem#feh kiran#feh summoner#fe kiran#fe summoner#fe loki#feh loki#art tag
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The love I hold for Haikaveh being thematically parallel to Nabu Malikata and Deshret is ever abundant and I have Thoughts on it all. I just wish I would ever decide to try and write my thoughts down when I'm in a reasonably awake state to have a shred of sense and not after spending the whole night staying up and pushing myself into sleep depravity.
Anyway, the basic idea is that I think both Kaveh and Alhaitham mirror certain aspects of both gods, but probably are meant to be the happier endings of that type of dynamic/character types. It's not just Kaveh=Nabu Malikata, Alhaitham=Deshret, Alhaitham has certain similarities to Nabu and Kaveh has a lot in common with Deshret (I would even say he is a more narrative foil to Deshret than Alhaitham ever could be). I understand that it's easier to just pick one pair for comparison and be done with it for simplicity's sake, but I'm already neck deep in overthinking, might as well go fully out on it eventually.
Even if I really wanna write this out, I don't know how comprehensive it would be. I make sense to myself, but the moment I try to put anything into concrete words, it suddenly feels like I need to fill in 5 different topics to make any sort of sense and bring the whole conversation to the same page with a common understanding.
Maybe I'll take a nap, that could fix everything.
#haikaveh#alhaitham#kaveh#sumeru god-kings#aborted sleep-deprived rambling in the post but will continue in the tags:#the reason i love the 4*s in genshin is that the narrative makes some of them Important#if not directly plot-wise (kaeya) it's their narrative foil potential ((hai)kaveh/god-kings) or just giving them special background (collei#usually 4* in games (or any side characters really) are fodder for plot or to make it seem lived in for the sake of looking like that#genshin isn't perfect with this either (when will xinyan come back home from war..) but they definitely put more thought into this#we have characters move between nations for events. they make new friend groups. itto considers going to liyue with the gang#there is a lot of plot going on outside the traveler (and by default the player) and it's one of the strongest character building they do
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Had this idea stuck in my head, so threw together a quick animatic with Merlin and Mordred and unrealistic lighting! I think their dynamic had so much potential and complexity that I would have loved to see explored. This is a confrontation that did not happen in canon, but I think definitely could have! Hope you enjoy :D
#bbc merlin#merlin emrys#merlin#adventures of merlin#mordred#bbc mordred#merlin animatic#merlin fanart#arthur pendragon#their dynamic had so much potential#foils and parallels and enemies that could have been allies#victims of destiny!#I have so many merlin animatic ideas help haha#Youtube
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Idk if this is going to make any sense, but I always feel like there's something missing when I read thoughts about sskk and it really is the impact Kyouka has on them.
Like, a lot of it is "look at the impact Atsushi and Akutagawa have on each other" and "they are so similar at their cores" which is true! And essential for any bsd partner dynamic! But Kyouka also has commonalities - she has Atsushi's general wonder, simple wants and joys, and desire to be helpful and kind, but also Akutagawa's laser focused objectivity, initial lack of questioning orders, and straightforward ruthlessness when required.
But a lot of the external influence on sskk I see mentioned is Dazai and Chuuya's... which I get, because they're the previous double black, but also Chuuya is very minorly involved by proxy only, and while Dazai undeniably is at the heart of sskk conflict (and it's good to analyze in depth!!!), I feel it's understated how much it was actually Kyouka who kickstarted the development between them - Atsushi was brand-new to the Agency, but saving Kyouka cemented his mindset of proving his worth and also gave him someone to look out for - his position became less fragile from that point on and more permanent. Her mix of kindness and darkness also forces Atsushi in the Guild arc to reassess the idea that people are either "good" or "bad". (He's working on this still, but his judgements are becoming much more nuanced than at the beginning.) And as for Akutagawa... I have a lot of thoughts on their dynamic and how I really don't think there's a whole lot of bad blood there anymore after my all-time favourite scene where they fight in Cannibalism arc - but all I will say is that he legitimately thought what he was doing would make her strong enough to survive, and both Kyouka and Atsushi telling him this is wrong, that people can't live being beaten down like that forces him to reassess his own situation in the Hawthorne and Mitchell fight. (He still has a ways to go, but I seriously hope he eventually realizes that his treatment by Dazai was horribly unnecessary and cruel.)
But what's great is that Atsushi and Akutagawa influence her development too! I don't even need to get into Atsushi's: he believes in her potential and sees her as the young girl she is - not a weapon but a person. She starts off pretty much attached to him and only him, but as time goes on, she starts to adopt a more positive mindset and becomes more confident making decisions as a result of his faith in her. With Akutagawa, she is, like Atsushi, forced to reassess others, especially after he tells her he's glad for her having found that will to live. Kyouka is unable to continue fighting him after that, and I get the sense she saw him as a person there, instead of only the man who harmed her. I also find it really interesting that she has no shame or concern about her mindset aligning much more closely with his, to the point where she'll work with him if necessary.
This is a bit of a mess but really it's one long-winded ramble on how I loved these three working together in Dead Apple and would love to see them working and fighting alongside each other again. I know, I know, this is probably not going to happen because it's supposed to be about sskk as a duo but consider:
They are a trio in my heart.
#the fighting style approach could also be really interesting. sskk relies on atsushi as offense and akutagawa as defense#but this often leaves akutagawa more vulnerable#kyouka is perfectly equipped to be the 'midfielder' in a sense#also if anyone has any good fic recs with these three working together i would love to see it#also also kyouka and akutagawa foil characters real#this whole thing might be one reason why i was a bit disappointed about kyouka's role in beast tbh... like it made sense but also#i think more could've been done with her#but that's a whole different thing that i don't really want to get into#anyways let's analyze all these characters together because foiling abounds:#atsushi lucy sigma tachihara kyouka akutagawa#also they should all hang out i think.#bsd#bsd atsushi#bsd akutagawa#bsd kyouka#shin soukoku#sskk#potentially it could be kyouka who comes across vampire akutagawa and that would be a very interesting confrontation.#fingers crossed because i am fascinated by their dynamic
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Be gay do escrime 🤺
#had to look up what fencing is in french and i am delighted with the pun potential#also#why does the emoji have a foil lamé but is using an epée
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thinking about their friendship so hard
#camp camp#cc#David#jasper#fanart#DUDEEE nobody gets them like i do theyre so good#theyre so tragic.. they never truly got to know each other. the last time they ever seen each other they were angry with the other :(#but there’s so much regret that comes with it too. they never got to talk it out. be on good terms#they could see each other at any moment but they other doesn’t know#they call each other best friends yet we never really see them being best friends.. but maybe they get each other like no one else does#their personalities did a complete swap with each other - they understand how the other is thinking and feeling.#David hated the camp but after one good thing he loves it. viseversa with jasper#when they last saw each other they were clouded with their views and didn’t try to understand things from their lens#yet even if they didn’t - they still understood each other. if you get what I mean#theyre foils. but so is max and david and that’s what makes both relationships compelling for me. theyre so similar to each other#no wonder david is so attached to max. he sees himself in him and he sees jasper in him too#i know jaspers just a character to show how bad the camp is. but there’s so much depth to him too#he has a lot of missed potential.. i hope he’s in season 5 at least. id like to see him again#srry for the character analysis im insane#jaspvid
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Tbh a huge amount of the issues MHA has could have been fixed had Bakugo just been expelled from UA in the first season or not gotten in at all
#izuku's other friends like ochako tenya etc could have gotten more screentime and development#the todoroki arc wouldve had more space to flesh out all the siblings and give shouto a more obvious personality#the precedent of excusing abuse wouldnt be there so i think ppl would be less sympathetic to endeavour which is GROSS#aizawa and the rest of the ua staff look better as teachers as theyre not just letting a pr nightmare and bully run around unchecked#the 'bakusquad' can be given more space to be their own characters and bond wo being rotted by their attachment to bakugo#shinsou could have actual development instead of being one dimensional and annoying and grow into his potential as izuku's rival/foil#less bakugo screentime also means more time for the plot to develop#and im hoping the characters could develop their abilitie sin unique and more consistent ways wo the constant need to make bakugo the best-#screwing everything up#including izuku keeping his analysis abilities etc#thats just off the top of my head#izuku midoriya#bakugo katsuki#anti bakugo katsuki#anti bakugo#mha#my hero academia#mha critical#my hero academia critical
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I'm always having creation ideas above my skill level for Shuji Ikutsuki lmao
#shuji ikutsuki#persona 3#persona 3 spoilers#pharos#nyx#pls i love him and theres literally nothing exploring his potential as a foil to the protagonist#everyone just hates him lmao
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gotham should've made Lucius fox weirder. Do you mean to tell me he got the reflection riddle right meaning he was like an Edward who was loved and cared for in a way that he was not weird at all? he got the riddle right a series of riddles meant to find someone similar to Edward and he got the reflection one. he has no quirky quirks at all here? for shame.
#gotham#gotham fox#gotham 2014#edward nygma#lucius fox#im bad at explaining my points again#sorry for being insane about edward nygma other foils that arent oswald#i just think theyre very neat and super unexplored to the point i want to cry from the missed potential
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Long Live Evil is good in the way Sarah Rees Brennan is always good where she tells you exactly what she's going to do and then does it. But I'm starting to take it personally now that het and achillean ships are perfectly swoony dangerous and hot filled with tension and longing and chemistry and the only sapphic relationship here was a literal snoozefest. Why are y'all like this
#Emer and Lia got so little page time#individually or together#so much potential and so little character development#you can't just tell me they have depths and then not explore it because we're too busy squeeing over the other couples mooning at each othe#I started the book shipping Rae and Lia tbh (don't judge me)#I thought they were the perfect foils#each devious and ferociously intelligent in equal and opposite directions#instead Lia and Emer got a perfunctory summarised and glossed over romance off page#cool thanks I guess#why even fucking bother#Long Live Evil#sarah rees brennan
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