#they'd be insane to kill off the two protagonists

[icecreambeach]

Predictions for The Mandalorian S3 Finale:

Din doesn't die, Grogu doesn't die, Bo-Katan saves the day, and we see the mythosaur again. Maybe a final key appearance and it's totally Boba Fett because I'm mentally well

[the-modern-typewriter]

Hi! Can you do a villain x villain?

"Is that a wedding ring?" It came out, just the teensiest bit, strangled.

"Last bit of your outfit for tonight. Put it on."

The protagonist stared at the villain for a moment, searching for the trap. It probably wouldn't actually kill them, but with them it was impossible to be entirely sure. The other's expression gave away nothing. They weren't even looking back - more preoccupied with tapping away at something on their phone.

"Uh..."

They got an eyebrow raise in response. A delicate warning.

So, the protagonist padded over to the small black box sitting open on their kitchen table. It was next to the villain. Close enough that they couldn't keep the table between the two of them, at least not without making a thing about it.

The villain smelled like their expensive soap. Spicy. Warm.

The protagonist swallowed, heart stuttering.

"Funny sort of proposal," the protagonist managed. "Even for you."

"No one's threatened by newlyweds. It's the perfect cover."

Right. Of course it wasn't an actual proposal. That would be...well. Probably apocalyptic, but the protagonist's stomach did give a stupid little squeeze at the thought. The bastard no doubt knew.

The ring fit perfectly.

When they glanced at the villain again, the other's gaze was already on them, assessing. It lit the protagonist up, like their every nerve ending was mapped out on some special spectrum that only the other villain could see.

The protagonist exhaled a shaky breath. "You're going to owe me big time for this."

"You'll get your share of the profits. You always do, don't you?"

They had worked together on a number of big jobs over the years. The other villain always had the most insane and most lucrative plans. Brilliant.

The protagonist was pretty sure they'd been in love with the bastard from nearly the moment they met.

The villain held out a hand. A matching ring sparkled in the evening light.

When the protagonist stared at them, helplessly, dumbly, the villain clicked their tongue.

"Oh." The protagonist took the offered hand, and the villain promptly reeled them in, so they stood between the villain's legs. They could feel the heat of them radiating from their skin, they were so close.

The protagonist felt a little dizzy.

"You'll need to be quicker on the upkeep, lover, if we're going to pull this off," the other villain murmured. They squeezed the protagonist's fingers hard enough to hurt. "If anyone suspects anything, we're done for. Breathe."

The protagonist breathed out, slow, steadying.

"And sit," the villain said.

The other chair was on the other side of the table. Did the villain mean -?

Another impatient tongue-click.

The protagonist sat themselves on the villain's lap. They felt hyperaware of every inch of contact between them. "This is - um -"

"Uncomfortable?" The villain's smile was wicked. "You don't want to be my false lover, baby?"

The protagonist gritted their teeth, refusing to give the villain the sadistic delight of seeing them flush. "You're a bit like a cat, is all," the protagonist said. "Never sure, if I touch you, if you're going to be sweet or if you're going to claw my hand off."

"More fun that way," the villain purred.

Well, it certainly kept things interesting. There was probably something wrong with the protagonist.

Still studying them, the villain brought the protagonist's hand up to their lips, pressing a kiss to their knuckles.

The reaction was instant and visceral.

The protagonist closed their eyes. They felt hot and flustered all over.

Why were they so incapable of being cool and intimidating around the one person they wanted to be cool for?

The villain chuckled. "Yeah, I think you're going to do just fine. If you pass out, it won't be terror. Will it, love?"

"That's why you wanted me for this collab? My-" They stopped short of saying feelings for you. Ludicrous thing to admit aloud, even if they both knew. Especially them.

"One of them."

"The other being my sparkling competence, naturally."

"Naturally."

The villain's hands rose, moving to fix the protagonist's tie with one hand. They knotted it just a fraction too tight, even as their movements stayed leisurely. The protagonist could feel it when they swallowed.

The protagonist kept waiting for their body to relax. To not be on edge just sharing the same air space.

It didn't happen.

The villain was smiling. They gave the tie a little tug, so their lips could brush along the protagonist's jaw line.

"Exposure therapy?" the protagonist asked. "So I'm more natural later?"

"Mm." There was a hum of approval in the other villain's voice. It shouldn't have meant as much as it did.

"Am I allowed to touch you?"

"You can always try it and see how sweet I am."

"You're impossible." It came out a huff, but not without affection. Never. They tentatively settled their hands on the other villain's shoulders.

"Of course you can touch me," the villain said. "You're my beloved spouse. We're besotted. Disgustingly affectionate. No one wants to look at us for longer than three seconds before they want to puke rainbows."

"This is your version of puking rainbows?"

The villain gave the tie a sharp tug for that.

The protagonist had to laugh and, with the laugh, some of the tension faded from them. "Don't worry, I'll teach you."

"Will you."

"Mm. You say nice things and call each other by saccharine nicknames."

"Gross."

The protagonist grinned. "Your idea, boss."

The villain was quiet for a beat, settling back in their chair, considering the protagonist again for a beat. Musing.

"We should go," the protagonist said. "We'll be late."

"Late is believable. We're newlyweds. Easily distracted."

The villain was, admittedly, very distracting beneath them. But that was hardly the point.

The villain was still staring.

"You picked the clothes," the protagonist said. "You can't tell me to change."

"I don't want you to change. Not ever."

The protagonist's throat tightened, mouth dry. "There we go," they said softly. "Puking rainbows."

The evening was going to be exquisitely unbearable.

[necr0maxic]

i am completely convinced that henri has it the worst of all the amnesia protagonists and by that i mean he has no redemption, he has no time to grieve, he has no explanation for what's going on and realistically, he is dead after the ending of the game with not a single soul to explain what happened inside that bunker. an unknown tragedy.

daniel and oswald eventually remember all about finding their orbs and the alien power that brought upon them. the shadow, vitae and the rituals were all explained to daniel and he remmbers them. the visions of the future and what oswald did with that knowledge comes back to him. the two get to remember what happened as they'd already had time to come to terms with it and get their redemption once they've been through the amnesia process and had the time to grieve what they did in the past. they to make a conscious choice in their endings too. oswald puts an end to the machine and his own suffering and it's his choice. daniel gets to take down alexander (with or without agrippa) or can choose to let alex complete his goal; even if it means his own sacrifice, daniel chooses his ending.

tasi and the rest of her crew all have a run in with tihana and the other world directly and by the time she gets to make the choice for her ending, she remembers everything and sees the consequences of her actions. given tasi hasn't actually done anything wrong and whose whole story revolves around being a grieving mother, she gets to slowly remember that as she's transforming and come to a newly informed conclusion where she, once again, chooses her outcome. she either sacrifices herself and/or her baby or she takes a risk despite knowing the consequences but the important part is she chooses it.

and what's so special about the three of them is that their choice has an impact on the world past their short lifespans. (going off the "true" endings) daniel calming the shadow, oswald destroying the machine and stopping the massacre, tasi destroying tihana's reign.

justine.... uh, justine is her own situation. she's just living her best life. she has nothing to do with the other world anyway, she really is just thriving. good for her.

henri though? he is never granted that. we don't know exactly when he went into the bunker or what involvement he had with the roman tunnels, but given we get no comments from either him or augustin about the strange events that happened in there, i don't believe either of them were aware. they're in a warzone, it's not uncommon for men to lose their minds and start seeing/hearing strange things. even hearing stories of the tunnels, it's easy to just believe that everyone i just superstitious. all henri knows is he's fighting a war, one day his best friend nearly died on a patrol and then somehow he miraculously survived and ended up back at the bunker. the man has amnesia caused by severe head trauma, that's a damn hefty thing to deal with already. severe head trauma, being in a coma for at least a week or two, probable concussions, retrograde amnesia hell even the fact he doesn't speak throughout the game might indicate aphasia. henri was not present for the tunnels incident not augustin's transformation so he did not already have the time to process and grieve it all. he finds things out by piecing together other people's journals but may not even have much time to do so as he's constantly under threat during the entire game. worse still, this creature that has no earthly explanation is hunting him and then when he reaches the tunnels for himself he suddenly sees floating rocks and visions so that's a whole other things for him to process. he has no idea what the other world is, what the harvesters are or why the harvesters exist. and once he escapes the bunker, he's not even given 10 seconds to breathe before he's at best captures and at most realistically killed by german soldiers who even if they could communicate with each other, would NEVER believe the insane story henri only had a fraction of information about of what happened down there. his death wouldn't affect anything and after the true ending, nobody would even have known he just stopped an almost immortal horror from massacring entire armies. there is no redemption to be had, there is no grieving, there is no rationalising what happened, it's just pure and constant terror.

[thespianinthebackcorner]

Half of this theory's been around for ages I'm just adding more but

Is this anything. I know the theory of Toni Kensa (which could easily be short/nickname for Tataki Kensaki, making both canon) and the Squid Sisters being related but.

Is it any coincidence that one of the promo characters literally has the exact same name with the exact same spelling and coincidentally is seen using. A charger (Marie's weapon) in the Direct he was first seen in. I'm gonna call him Saki with this because what else can I do when he refuses to tell me if it's his last name or not

I'm already going too far with this but there's also the fact that he primarily wears greyscaled colours (cough Toni Kensa before the Kensa brand existed). And I've heard people say the hipster cut is a budget Marie cut before. So that's A Thing.

I don't know what's going on and we haven't seen Saki in five years anyway so I don't know why I'm theorising now but I just find it weird that. The family crest on Marie's kimono, Toni Kensa, and now some random kid all share the same name. Especially since S2's main story mode puts this emphasis on family (Callie & Marie). And the fact that everyone who's ever modelled for Kensa has used black ink, implying that Kensa himself probably has black tentacles (like Callie does) or even white ones (like Marie.) and the greyscaled tentacles could easily be a family thing that just happens as you get older. Especially with the family thing since we know it doesn't happen to everyone (Captain 3 doesnt have greyscaled tentacles despite being older now than the Squid Sisters were in S1.) If it's true then that would mean the greyscaling happens around at least 17 years, which explains why S2 Saki has regular colours because he'd be 15-16 at the time (S2 protagonists are two years older than S1 protagonists are.) (I just realised my logic on that one is way off base and they'd actually be around eighteen by S2 but roll with me here. It still works, he'd just be a late bloomer.)

Anyhoo ive been high on this theory for like an entire day now but suffice to say. (1) Saki should've been the protagonist of S2 (2) in my head it's canon that the Squid Sisters, Saki and Toni Kensa are cousins (3) wait that kinda fits because the gaudy pair of black bracelets on Saki's shirt feel very Kensa (4) I'm going insane help.

Having said that, if it is canon that raises the question why didn't Marie directly ask Saki for help with Callie- but she could very well have not wanted to worry him or put him in danger, especially since S2 was kinda his time in the spotlight as a turf war player, especially since that's the one point in the timeline where neither the Squid Sisters nor Toni Kensa were getting attention. Now that I think about it, there's no real confirmation that Cuttlefish's family stopped with Callie and Marie's parents, and them two respectively. For all we know, Saki is Marie's little brother or something like that. For all we know there could even be four cousins to the Kensaki clan instead of the two Squid Sisters.

I'm gonna write a fic based on this actually. Do y'all wanna hear more of my crack theories about the promo kids because I also have one highlighting the fact that (a.) Tof-U and Kensaki seem to be opposing each other a lot (second in command to their leaders and/or killing each other midmatch) and also the fact that Half-Rim and N-Pacer are literally what happens if you give them fanchildren

Yes I am insane

Sorry

[runespoor7]

nmj/wwx or jgy/wwx or lxc/wwx

Oh, interesting!

I answered under the cut, all three options and a surprise.

NMJ/WWX

don't ship it

Why don't you ship it?

lack of history in canon, I think. never really thought about it, they both die early without much to do with one another, I don't feel like I see what's going on there. I'm very busy shipping them with their respective it's-complicated.

What would have made you like it?

More history between them would have been a good start.

Despite not shipping it, do you have anything to say about it?

ok see the Draw for me here is that I think the in-universe RPF game for these two was insane. Probably unwarranted! Lots of LWJ or JC stuff being given to NMJ for some reason and some Meng Yao stuff given to WWX. But there was a time it was the big YLLZ-era ship. Righteous Chifeng-zun calling out and going to to war against the fallen Yiling Laozu! Action! Drama! Lots of possible captive scenarios! Some stories have WWX be secretly a spy for the Wens during the war and NMJ being unable to prove it, and realizing only after the war that WWX is trying to set himself up as the new WRH! Some stories have WWX save NMJ during the war, only to be corrupted by his demonic cultivation later on! It's definitely the Hot ship at the time.

It falls off in popularity after NMJ's death - it's taken over by WWX/JC (which had started becoming real popular since JC killed WWX; JC gets a lot of the darker versions of RPF!Chifeng-zun's personality traits in those stories) - but it probably leaves a decent smattering of heirs in non-RPF stories. The most popular romance story in the present is from an author who wrote NMJ/WWX, they're not quite expies but iykyk.

(the YLLZ's actual most common ship is YLLZ/Ghost General, in stories where YLLZ is the villain and not part of the main pair. These stories are overwhelmingly NMJ/JYL after she's been widowed by the YLLZ.)

JGY/WWX

don't ship it!

Why don't you ship it?

I have never seen a protagonist and a "main(?) antagonist" care so little about one another and be so perpendicular to each other's stories. The Venn diagram between WWX and JGY is "WWX's sidekick/boyfriend's brother is JGY's bestie" and "the person who wants JGY destroyed threw ideas at the wall and WWX stuck."

It's very interesting. It kind of makes mdzs into the kind of case fic where the case is less important than the emotions. For me, "the emotions," "the plot," was the mystery question of: "how come wwx died? how did it end up that way?"; I suspect ardent wgxn shippers see "the plot" as "how do wwx and lwj get together". In either case, it's got nothing to do with JGY.

What would have made you like it?

so if they did have interactions/history/something I might be into it, but otoh it's such a fun thing that they're just incidental to one another that it would almost be a shame.

(at this point it may become apparent that my answer to everything is "idk, if they'd been childhood friends and had a falling out?" but what can you do.)

This would have been a cool story: WWX and JGY knew one another as kids. Maybe WWX's parents left him at an inn down the street from the brothel Meng Yao lived in when they left on the night-hunt that would kill them.

Maybe bby Wei Ying boasted about his cultivator parents and gave Meng Yao pointers. Maybe Meng Yao gave WWX food once after bby WWX lost his parents. Maybe they played together/hid together. I see something like at most a few weeks of something that someone older would have called a friendship, and then bby WWX disappearing from Meng Yao's life.

Meng Yao remembers the other boy; WWX doesn't.

Depending on how long they were friends you might need to make up a reason why Meng Yao never learned the other boy's real name; maybe part of a joke during their first meeting that WWX refused to clear up later? fits in with WWX's joke to LQY. Or if they did exchange names, you might need a reason why Meng Yao doesn't try to turn his friendship with WWX into something actionable once he learns WWX is head disciple of YMJ. The reason might be as simple as Meng Yao not knowing what became of Wei Ying until after he tried to reach his father the first time. The rejection, the humiliation, the fear of being a laughing stock and or being rejected again, pride - those might suffice to explain why Meng Yao wouldn't throw himself at the mercy of Wei Ying or the Jiangs. (Especially if their meetings were under the sign of bby WWX bragging about his parents or sth like that.)

Keeping canon otherwise the same, this makes for a starting point for "what if" contemplations I'd be interested in.

Despite not shipping it, do you have anything positive to say about it?

I'm very into JGY having Opinions on WWX. there are definitely cool AUs to be made about them.

LXC/WWX

don't ship it

Why don't you ship it?

most of my ships need some... thing from canon. LXC/WWX is a complete mystery. I would be interested in making up stories about them, simply because there would be many stories to tell depending on your starting point. But I'm probably not going to want to spend effort or time on it.

LWJ and his feelings are also very much something that I'd need to consider, from LXC's PoV at least. And that's a lot.

What would have made you like it?

Hm, I dunno. A very different canon? One where they have more history, or more scenes together. Possibly one where I'm more invested in LXC as well.

Despite not shipping it, do you have anything positive to say about it?

Oh yes, it sounds fascinating!

Are we talking about WWX/LXC post-canon, with wgxn either a thing or having been a thing? How do they navigate LWJ's feelings for WWX? Are they going behind his back? Is it sad, or sordid, is it an unexpected friendship that goes deeper than any of them expected?

Or did LWJ die from his punishment while WWX was dead? Is LXC/WWX the relationship in this story because LXC has been mourning for his brother ever since; how resentful of WWX is he? Did LWJ try to get him to promise not to resent WWX? Does LXC try to understand WWX (for LWJ) anyway, does he try to meet him halfway? Does he end up seeing good things in WWX as well? Or it is a destructive urge that drives them together? (There would certainly be a parallel between LXC and JC in a story where LWJ died for WWX. Is WWX projecting? What kind of relationship do LXC and JC have?)

WWX/NMJ/LXC/JGY

I don't ship it but I think if given the opportunity WWX might joke about performing a 3zun hat trick a lot.

And then possibly commit to the bit, the only sort of commitment he's at ease with. (/cheap shot)

Or panic and not do it, given that he's hugely sentimental deep down, but he would love the joke!!!!

[erysvoleil]

Got annoyed at myself for not elaborating. Long post.

Taylor Hebert (worm): I feel like it's almost impossible to say anything about Bug Freak Prime here that hasn't been said a thousand times already. Absolute top tier Protagonist Who Has Things Wrong With Her, and it's endlessly engaging to both get a real grasp on how she's fucked up, how that impacts her perspective and how she describes/thinks about things, how she bounces off other characters who are by and large also top tier Freaks With Things Wrong With Them, and how she twists into herself over time and stress. Not to mention she's just. Aesthetically cool, and how she uses her powerset is cool and good and creative. Just an absolute 10/10 of a fictional character.

Jessie Ewesmont (twig): There are a lot of problems twig has in comparison to the other "good" wildbow works. It also, however, has jessie, who almost singlehandedly drags the whole book in my reckoning from a very mixed opinion to an overall positive one. Genuinely one of the best-written transgender characters I've ever seen, strong enough to be worthy of that recognition even though her proper weight class is "mediocre fiction written by cishet white guys." There's a lot of reasons for that-the levels of subtext she's working on, that she's the second-most prevalent and fleshed-out character behind the protagonist in a 1.6 million word long book, that her transition is a Thing That Happens in the story instead of being offscreen, that her gender situation is messy and complicated in a way that isn't painted as a bad thing. But beyond that, she's just Good-her dynamic and evolving relationship with said protag, even disregarding the romantic elements, is interesting and fun, her story has a lot of very good moments, etc. etc. etc.

Binah/Garion (lobcorp/ruina): Binah gets here mostly for her lobcorp appearance-like most of the returning characters in ruina, her arc is over and she's mostly just there for the new boy to bounce off of. It doesn't feel ooc, tbf, but she's a lot less entertaining of a character there when she isn't in scp purgatory. In lobcorp though. Before you even meet her, you've already seen her brutally murder two of the other characters in their own backstory flashbacks. Already seen her gleefully kill and maim and gun-to-head threaten some of the earlier cast you may have gotten attached to. And then you go press her story scenes and she's just. This impenetrable wall of passive malice, stonefacedly recounting absolute horrorshows, a facade only breached to smirk at the occasional morbid joke that's come to her. She's trapped in the Torment Nexus like every other lobcorp character but unlike the majority, she's reveling in it-she's pretty much an explicit sadist and seeing Everyone Else (notably, the people who put her here) in Misery is enough to make it worth it to her-or at least to say and act that way. Plus her formal responsibility in the Torment Nexus is tearing monsters out of people's brains, a procedure she claims would drive anyone else insane and she clearly enjoys, so. y'know.

Cylva/Cyella (ffxiv): Augh. I feel like I was such a lorebrain in my xiv days that it's hard to stop myself from just Retelling Her Entire Story, especially since she is so deeply woven into things in the background, but that'd be too long for this sort of thing. I think a lot of what she speaks to is inherent alienation, setting yourself apart from everyone else with the utter conviction that that gap is unassailable. And then once they're all gone, once you've played your game of cutting yourself off because you told yourself you had to, realizing that Fuck, you'd gotten attached-and they'd gotten attached to you, but they're gone now. Forever. And you've gotta live with both failing your little gambit and losing what you've only now realized you had forever. She's such an important character to shb's background narrative and her quests are some of the best writing in a Generally Well-Written expac. I genuinely love the blend of guilt, self-hatred, love for her former companions and conviction she has. But unfortunately you kind of have to be a bit of an insane completionist to see them-so she can't show up even when things directly relevant to her story start being the focus and this was actually the point where I hardline burned out on xiv's narrative. (wasn't feeling it for a bit, tbf)

Esmerelda Weatherwax (discworld): This one's a bit lighter of an opinion than the others previously, but she's come up recently in talking to friends about yazeba's, so she was on the brain. I haven't actually reread discworlds for a bit, but I was big into them as a teenager and Granny Weatherwax here was unironically a role model of mine. Which probably tells you some things about how I was as a teenager If You Know, but shhh. Inevitably, though, she's just a fun character-crotchety old witch who barely even uses magic, getting away with a strong sense of how people work, medical knowledge and sheer, unbending self-control in almost all situations. Plus her bouncing off the Jolly Old Lady that is her Old Witch counterpart is generally quite fun. I should reread wyrd sisters.

Ema Skye (ace attorney): Ema's an interesting one and a large part of why I like her is that she's imo easily the most developed character in aa. A lot of the bigname standbies can't really progress much due to Brand Recognition-this is quite notable in hobo phoenix being reverted nigh-immediately, for instance, but Ema's one of the only ones that feels like she's actually lived through the decade+ the series is supposed to take place in. I'll accept her first appearance is just maya-lite, but the contrast between bright-haired and bushy tailed "I'm Gonna Do Forensics :)" kid to jaded dropout/failure who hates her job post-timeskip is Good, and her starting to put herself together and work back towards those dreams, reclaim a bit of that excitement in 6 feels like a satisfying next step for her character. Now where the fuck's her sister capcom please stop throwing the cool female characters in forever jail.

Samus Aran (metroid): Like a lot of the ones that come from my teenage years, this is a lighter opinion-I don't have any long dissections of her character, I just think she's Cool and Neat. I played the prime games a lot and frankly the vibe of her just going out and Being Alone, doing her job on dangerous planets without really anyone to talk to or rely on or any of that was like. Nice, and particularly nice for me at that time. I feel like a lot of people just call her blank slate because like, yeah, inevitably she is a silent protagonist, but on the other hand she is supposed to be the same person throughout-and at least in terms of primes/dread, you can read a lot into her body language and decision-making and whatnot. But mostly she's just Cool and Neat.

Kohaku (tsukihime): This is another one I feel like it's difficult to say anything that hasn't been said a thousandfold before, but unlike Our Lady of Escalation, I haven't honestly seen most of it. She's a really really strong tragic character, and the degrees of depersonalization she's running on throughout the story are quite the potent read to slowly realize. Her "blood vanished like vapor" speech bounces around the back of my head quite a bit in that department. Plus she's at the center of two Very Strong routes that I rather like for being in conversation with each other. It's a good use of the vn multiple route standard, I think-the tragedy of Where She's Heading, of being dragged down into becoming a predator herself, into self-destructing in a spectacle of indiscriminate, suicidal destruction answered immediately by "but what if she was actually able to get better" work so well as companion pieces to each other. The "what if she got better" doesn't hit nearly as good without knowing just how bad she was doing, how close she is to being That again, and "but what if it could be averted?" is a key part of a lot of tragedy. Plus, a lot of tsuki's writing around sex is pretty juvenile and while I won't claim it's Super Mature with her, it is worthwhile that her sex scenes are actually both Pretty Plot/Character Relevant. It's also nice that in her good ending, it's not One Night of Magic Protagonist Dick that Fixes Her, in either the literal or facetious sense. The connection helps her, certainly, averts the tragic-route deathspiral she's in, but her actual good ending is moving away from it all and roadtripping alone for a bit, which is Good.

Aigis (persona 3): I don't necessarily know if I regret marathoning all three of p3p p4g and p5r in early pandemic years. These games in retrospect piss me off more than anything even if the gameplay loops active my neurons oh-so-well. But on the other hand, this Fucking Robit that's a boring nothing character for 90% of the game's runtime is the most direct personal attack I've ever fucking received. She's genuinely the most resonant depiction of dysphoria that I've seen in anything and that counts for a Lot. And then you get into the whole "views herself as a soulless Executor of the Task she's good at instead of any kind of a Person for Most of Her Life until that's shattered and she has to desperately try to figure out how to put together Being A Person while coming to terms with just how badly she hates herself" thing and hhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Another Common Thing I have Commentary on is her internalized homophobia if you romance her as femc-it's funny, especially given atlus's Homophobic Past, Present, and Future, but I feel like I usually see it framed as being ooc, which it isn't. She's having a selfhatred breakdown in that scene and is reaching for any club she can think of bash herself with, that's just one of them.

Airy (bravely default): For some reason I can't get this stupid fucking Cryst-Fairy :) out of my head. She's so good. Not only is Her Being Evil Actually a fun way to play with the jrpg trope she's responding to (marketably scrunklie companion character who knows So Much about the plot,) the way it's revealed is rather nice. She's suspectable for quite a bit before the actual reveal, and the hints get more and more and more blatant as you go on-the game menu's subtitle dropping the FF in Fairy Flies/Flying Fairy is a legendary one, but I don't think I'm ever going to forget the realization that her wings were counting down as I went through the game's back-half loops. That being said, bravely 1 remains my favorite game that I never actually finished so I've never seen her Actual Heel Turn but she's stuck in my head forever so. Plus she's got a really strong and recognizable leitmotiff, which counts for A Lot

Name ten female characters you like, you get zapped if it's jsut a male character you call a babygirl or other feminine nicknames because I can't see people calling Lestat coquette again