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okay but. why does it seem like 24 year old majima’s ridden a horse before. why does he talk like he has Experience. what is this lost lore
#rambling#we just gonna gloss over this#to me this either implies he’s from either a REALLY country background Or on the other end of the spectrum (my personal belief) and he’s#from an upper middle class to well off background and has been to like horse camp or horseriding lessons or something in his childhood#oh man please i love the image of an 8-14 year old majima being made to do horseriding by his parents because hes this#lanky pale ass kid who needs to do SOME kind of sport or something#and boy would he Hate it#he’s bizarrely prodigious at a Lot of the (especially technique based) things he tries canonically so I imagine he wouldn’t actually be Bad#at it after some trial and error but. he’d still fucking hate it. and his cool persona in his head would be riding a motorcycle or something#instead cause that’s Way cooler to him#man I have so many thoughts about young majima I really gotta go into depth on it soon#oh yeah just a note: part of the reason I don’t think he’s from a country background is cause his Real Accent canonically is#a tokyo one which he’s still getting the hang of covering up with a kansai one when he’s 20. meaning there’s not a ton of time for him to#have adjusted into a Tokyo one or something prior if he hadn’t grown up there#so I’m pretty damn sure he’s from Tokyo#that + a number of other details that make him seem to me like he grew up with a more formal education#and ywah blah blah blah#majima#Yuki#sunshine siblings#y0
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kinda crazy there was a whole ass video about rt sucking on jacksepticeye’s tits and we just glossed over it
#hang on lemme make sure. *opens ao3*#yeah no we just glossed over it#I mean not like I’m gonna do anything about it either
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Arlecchino's whole deal is unbelievable
Arlecchino: Huh I wonder what's causing my weird powers? I can't really worry about that right now tho, I've gotta become King and then kill my "Mother".
*Kills Clervie and "Mother"*
Arlecchino: Huh I wonder why I was able to defeat a Fatui Harbinger when I'm like 17 or so? I can't really worry about that right now tho, I've gotta be in jail and become a Harbinger.
*Is in jail for a while and becomes a Harbinger*
Arlecchino: Huh I wonder why I am-
Pierro: Hey what's up hello, anyways you're descended from the Crimson Moon Dynasty of Khaenri'ah. I'm sure that this is a lot for you to take in so-
Arlecchino: Ok.
Pierro: ...You're just cool with that?
Arlecchino: IDK maybe? I can't really worry about that at the moment, I'm a father now. This orphanage full of children I love (who also are child soldiers and are not allowed to leave or else I'll execute them except maybe now I'm just gonna wipe their memories IDK I'm morally complex) isn't gonna run itself.
*Runs the orphanage/spy recruitment initiative*
Me, the fucking player: WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU ARE KHAENRI'AN? WHY WASN'T THIS BROUGHT UP IN YOUR FUCKING QUEST?? OR ANYTHING ELSE????
Arlecchino, talking to me through my phone: I honestly don't know why you care, I'm too busy to give a shit. Anyways, I'm gonna go fight fate itself I guess. I'm sure that I don't share any thematic parallels with any other Khaenri'an characters (particularly as it relates to acting and family angst) and that I haven't made the idea of 'curses' on Khaenri'ans and what they entail even more complicated than they already were. See ya.
#arlecchino#genshin impact#pierro#WHY IS THE GAME FUCKING GLOSSING OVER THE FACT THAT SHE IS KHAENRI'AN?!#Not only that but she is the first Khaenri'an we've met (that we know of) who's from the Crimson Moon Dynasty#I'm so fucking confused#Did Celestia place a DIFFERENT curse on members of the Crimson Moon Dynasty?? Or is this stuff all of them can do???#HELP#She also seems almost...uninterested in the fact that she's descended from Khaenri'ah. Which honestly I think is interesting.#I don't know if I like it yet but when every other Khaenri'ah character has one of their major traits being that they super fucking#care that they are Khaenri'an (whether that be Kaeya with his paranoia/destiny/duty or Dain with his guilt over his failure/desire to#prevent our sibling from fucking with anything too much or whatever the fuck is going on with Pierro)#having a character who is Khaenri'an but doesn't seem to particularly be invested in that part of themself is different#she cares more about the curse and its effects on her then she ever really cares about the Crimson Moon Dynasty or the cataclysm#IDK I think it's neat from a character writing angle. or at least it has the potential to be if the writers do a good job.#But from a 'I like maybe 3 things in this game and one of them is Khaenri'ah' perspective it SUCKSSSSS#That part of the plot is already suffering from chronic live-service storytelling disease where people just straight up don't tell you#shit that they logically SHOULD BE TELLING YOU because the game needs to save plot points to build hype around#so for one of like 4-ish (depending on how much we count Albedo) Khaenri'an major characters to give us literally 1 and 1/2 voicelines#kinda sucks ngl. but again it's also interesting and realistic for Arlecchino and from that angle I like it#she doesn't care about what fate says her place in the world is. she's gonna carve her own and being Khaenri'an isn't relevant to#the life and identity she has built for herself. she isn't the type to look for answers she doesn't need. she's practical and efficient.#at the very least it's better than when Albedo 'I want to find all the world's truths' Kreideprinz doesn't let the audience in on his stuff
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i have to say its a strange experience taking classes on branding and marketing while being vehemently anticapitalist and scorning the economic system
#i shit you not ill be in class and theyre talking abt how to make brands memorable and use words to describe their tone and feel#and at the same time i see starbucks endorsing genocide and greedflation and AI techbros scheming us into extinction#its extremely fucking dystopian. and its even worse when u have teachers telling u to use chatGPT and midjourney for#placeholder text and images. like damn. this is really the industry im going into huh#i feel complicit doing this because i want to pursue graphic design but its chilling to see ppl get really worked up abt branding#do u not feel used?? doesnt it feel like youre giving a faceless entity a mask to gloss over the ugly parts?? cuz i do#i get excited at the design and UX aspect of things like how people think and how design and user interfaces are planned around how#we think and act. but when the endgoal becomes marketing or doing it for companies it just feels like a waste#like i think this is what bill watterson meant when he didnt want calvin and hobbes to be commercialized#i dont want to do anything else unless it comes to that like i change my career path somewhere down the line. but fuck dude#im just gonna keep using unsplash and lorem ipsum as much as i can because i sure as hell dont wanna add to the problem if i cant solve it#yapping#vent
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I'm gonna have to wait out a few weeks to be able to complain about jjk's ending bc rn half the ppl are bashing everyone who expected more as ppl who just wanted gojo back
#jjk 271#like no I can read I understood that gojo was gone for good from 236 bUT we can still talk about#how a grown ass man and his grown ass friends deciding how they were at 16 was their perfect forms.#before they made all the important life changing decisions. is a regression right#like can we talk about how the narrative just glosses over geto's whole entire life after hs WHERE HE WAS A GENOCIDAL MANIAC#and pretends like no one would even side eye him about that???#that's fucking regression#you're scaling his character back bc you don't want to address the root reasonwhy he went that route#and it's perfectly fine when an author doesn't want to get too political in their work it's their right I get it#but it does make me upset where the whole entire story up until here the author has been beating us over the head with leftist messaging-#- only to throw it away and settle for a 'oh I didn't mean ACTUAL revolution or changes that would rock the boat for REAL'#bc let's face it. the conditions that made people like geto and sukuna happen are still fucking there they just skipped this generation#these kids are still going to be sent out when a special grade curse shows up and some of them are still gonna die tragically early#to put yuuji as the leader of gojo's dream is isolating and a burden on JUST YUUJI (WHY WERE THE OTHER STUDENTS NOT THERE)#to make yuuji the sole messenger of gojo's will is frankly WEIRD gojo wanted these kids to look out for one another#he had nothing to say to anyone else???#yuuji's been accidentally burdened with the weight of gojo's dream now ON HIS OWN#HE IS A KID#literally nothing's changed at the end#also see how I didn't talk about gojo on his own here bc the problems are so glaring that they shine through even side characters#WHY IS NANAMI A KID IN THE AIRPORT IS THAT THE VERSION OF HIMSELF HE WAS CONTENT WITH???#or did they all have to be aged down to match haibara even though making the choice to show the ones that lived as grown would've made it-#-more impactful#A twenty seven yr old nanami sitting next to the fifteen yr old haibara would've been soul crushing right?#also why have nanami be the only one that talks like he remembers his adulthood BUT NOT GETO#WHY TAKE AWAY SUCH A HUGE PART OF GETO#YOU COULD'VE HAD THAT BE A CONVERSATION AND HAVE PEOPLE FORGIVE HIM#the more I think about the ending the more things I find to nitpick further back too#gege I love you but please I hope you negotiate a more flexible time in your next contract I hope they don't burn you out again#bc jjk is going to be an ending which I will frankly ignore and just go with 'sukuna won and it was terrible' in my head instead
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continue being a little mean to toh fans please it is really irritating how some act like its got the best writing of any modern cartoon
Daawwwww I don't have it in me. TOH fans love it for a reason, and there are legitimately good moments! It's just not the most complex or well-written show out there—which it doesn't need to be—but I also totally get your exhaustion. It gets tiring seeing people praise it so highly over and over again when it's just like...fine. It didn't do nothing but it also didn't do something, you know? It's main couple is cute and queer, but that's pretty much all there is to them. It has a fun cast of characters, but they all tend to fall into archetypes. Luz is a sweet main character, but she doesn't have any real flaws and kinda takes a back seat to Hunter and Eda (the white people lol). Her foil with Philip was interesting...but then they kinda backed off and went the "you and Belos are nothing alike" direction.
((I'm also going to answer this anon with another: ))
And It's not that an unsympathetic villian is bad, or that Belos would even be sympathetic with added backstory, it's just that...there were a lot of interesting things to explore with his character that were left hanging.
Like, while he's definitely not at all a good person, it's intriguing that he would bother to recreate his brother over and over again knowing that each time the grimwalker was going to betray him. It's intriguing that he was even willing to kill his brother to begin with (though Caleb was super underutilized in general). Like, you can give a villain depth without justifying or victimizing them (hi Finnegran from tdp, I'll also add Spider Queen & LBD here). So it just feels like a missed opportunity all across the board. It's still surprising to me that we got a confirmation on the Wittebane backstory through an unrelated background character, rather than Philip himself (who had literally possessed a main character, and mindscapes had already been well-established....the pieces were all there me thinks).
And obviously it's like, people can love something despite it's flaws, and they can cherish it for the good it has, but they still don't need to praise it as an ultimate form of media, you know? We don't need to pretend toh was this dark and complex story���it was just a story a lot of people liked and resonated with. Which I'm glad it's there for those people, and I'm glad there are options when it comes to queer pieces of media!
That said the show with the best writing of any modern cartoon is The Dragon Prince (streaming on Netflix).
#Monkie Kid while very good is still not that good. I'm sorry lmk. I give you 2nd place. In my heart <3#Though we'll see. If s5 (or beyond) brings back some stuff from s1 the writing might just be that tight#(aka the skeleton key being given to MK in 1x08 & also the 1x01 seal)#Anyways I feel like I've been too much of a hater recently#but gahhh. toh just did not get that deep. it's like fake deep#Let me explain my thoughts:#Lilith cursed Eda. Spent years trying to force Eda into the coven system to undo her own mistake.#Only to then learn that Belos was never going to heal her sister. And does this impact Eda and Lilith's relationship in any way? Not really#Like yeah sure their relationship improves after Lilith leaves the Emperor's coven.#But I can't help but feel like that situation got boiled down to ''Lilith had a good reason for it so we forgive her :p'' and I'm like NO#WHERE'S THE DRAMA#THAT WAS KINDA SUPER FUCKED UP OF LILITH. A LIFE LONG CURSE THAT SHE GAVE HER SISTER. AND WE'RE GONNA LIKE#GLOSS OVER THAT????#tis not story telling for me. At least not any more at this stage in my life.#asks#toh critical
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stuck in an endless cycle of being annoyed about some of the stuff that was in the trailer and then i see how excited other people are and start thinking "well maybe some of the stuff that upset me could go in a different direction than im expecting. and there was still some cool stuff in there. maybe im overreacting or jumping to conclusions" and then i remember what exactly i was annoyed about and start thinking maybe i was right the first time and then i just kind of feel sad thinking about how excited i was over the first two movies compared to how ive been feeling about the more recent movieverse content and then i get frustrated with how it feels like im not allowed to express these feelings and opinions with how defensive some movie fans get and dismiss all criticism as needless hate regardless of who its coming from or what theyre saying and then i go Okay im normal now . until im reminded of the movie again
#i feel like i should probably stop thinking about the movie but its kinda hard not to wiht how everywhere it is right now lol#it doesnt help that a lot of the stuff that stuck out as not so great to me are things casual sonic fans and the average movie watchers#or people who only like the movies and not the games probably wouldnt care about . so obviously thyere gonna be glossed over a lot#and a lot of people will think anyone whos concerned about those things is just being nitpicky and sonic fans hate everything etc#but honestly my initial anger over some parts has died down a lot im just feeling more . empty i guess. than anything#and also with the whole ''things could go in a different direction than you expect'' thing. yeah thats true. that could happen#but a lot of the stuff i didnt particularly like is just stuff that im inherently not a fan of . like sonic working with gun#its just such a weird writing choice even if it turns out they betray him or are lying to him or something#and also some of the more optimistic takes im seeing are just . idk guys.#i dont think that actor who is already confirmed to be playing a human is secretly voicing rouge#i dont think gun is gonna be portrayed as evil for killing maria when we already know gun was formed AFTER maria died in this universe#sorry .#and this isnt even getting into issues with some of the people involved with the movie
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Ok....... I actually love Utakata, and I am SO SAD we only get him for like 8 episodes
#speculation nation#fanny watches naruto#shaking the bars of my cage. HES SO COOL AND TORTURED AND I LOVE HIS BUBBLE JUTSU#just a guy with emo hair and a kimono so loose we can see his chest. who kills people by blowing bubbles hfkshfkd#i still have a few more episodes of this mini arc left. i really hope naruto learns he's the six-tails' jinchuuriki#there are two jinchuuriki parading around together and naruto doesnt even KNOWWAA#utakata knows though. bc unlike naruto he's actually perceptive lmao#he noticed naruto's weird chakra and also there was that reference to 'great power becomes a hindrance. right naruto?'#paraphrasing. but he was very definitely referencing the kyuubi. and then naruto GLOSSES OVER IT#naruto telling hotaru about how hes burdened by something too ans it cuts to utakata who doesnt say anything but looks so unsurprised#PLEASEEEE I JUST WANT NARUTO TO KNOW!!!! he's gonna lose utakata anyways but i want him to know!!!!!!#anyways im chewing on this lanky emo man with a big fuckin slug sealed inside him.#oh and near the start of the arc where hotaru was freaked out by the raining 'slugs'.#well now i saw that and was like. your guy's a slug guy. you better get used to them lmaooooo
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I think there is kinda something to be said about how tumblr will go "oh yeah we love and accept trans men! but don't forget, the trans man reading this, to feel constantly guilty over your identity, always triple check everything you do in case you're offending someone halfway across the planet whom you will never meet, never forget you were Born A Woman and therefore Privileged (???), never project yourself onto things unless the majority approve of it, and also we're going to use neurodivergent and transmasc in derogatory ways"
like you're not slick. we know you don't really like us. just because we're men (or masc aligned) doesn't mean you get to take out your frustration with masculinity on us.
#like we talk a lot about how trans women are held to very high standards. which is true.#but also the guys get a lot of shit and people just kind of gloss over it because we're not women#i know im probably gonna get shit for this take#but ill be honest. im tired. ive been feeling shitty about myself lately and a lot of it has been social media influenced#im tired of the internet trying to guilt trip me for being trans. because that's what it is. being constantly made feel like im intruding#or taking away from others just for existing. or that im inherently annoying irrational or misogynistic.#when ironically as a trans man i still face a lot of misogyny myself#people want an enemy so badly huh#trans#transgender#disk horse#transmasc
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hope you don’t mind my opinion!! but I think it would be so fun to have your version of Loguetown arc!! but I also agree that matching it to s2 would be amazing, so how about having your version as an extra or a spin-off?? tho it might not solve your problem with the connection it has to the story:’) or or or- you could have both of them and make it so they miraculously stayed for more than one day (or a day and a half) so you can have the parts you need and want to keep from your story for the first day and then add/accommodate the parts from OPLA s2 that will be shown as events of a later time?? these are just my silly suggestions tho, I know you’ll figure it out!! hope you’re having a nice day!!<3
Nonnie! I always love hearing what you guys think! This is a free and safe place to share what you want with me 🖤 because here is my other opinion lol
I just read an article that said Netflix released seven - SEVEN!!! - new characters that are being brought in this coming season. OPLA is about only 8 episodes for about an hour each. To give Robin and Tony Tony Chopper, along with all the others, appropriate run time there is just noooooo way, in my mind, that they are going to hit all of Loguetown arc and the others, ya know? So I might - MIGHT - a really big might, be safe when it comes to adding it in? Or it’s going to get glossed over. A lot of glossing is going to happen I think.
I’m 100000% sure when s2 does come out my ass will have to start over or fix some things, but I don’t plan on going too far. I just got a lot of thoughts about how they are going to add in 7 new characters for 8 episodes like this.
Rant over for now 🤣🤣🤣
#anon#answered#chaos in their bones#this is giving me literal chaos in my head#I just can’t comprehend how they are going to do it all#and like are they going to gloss over zoro seeing the Kuina look-a-like while shopping for swords??#cause I was going to have a scene like that and just#I got QUESTIONS and not enough answers#but I’m just gonna run with it and fix it when the time comes I think#I mean we know it’s Tashigi that reminds zoro of Kuina and they supposed to battle but damn#like is this going to be a 1 or 2 episode kinda thing???!#because alvida and buggy are also in Loguetown arc BUT chopper and Nico and viví are in a different one too#so like bro wtf
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whoever requested the wta footballer au for the tennisblr promptfest...................
#i have so many ideas.#heres the problem though im getting too in my head about it because i would want to make it 'realistic'#in terms of like who would end up where and what teams are actually good#but unfortunately a lot of the countries that are good at football dont have very high ranked tennis players...and vice versa#poland did just qualify for the euros which is their first ever major tournament!#but like rus is banned italy is ok but a hot mess czechia is just fine belarus sucks#spain is good but then i'd have to write paula and i do not want to lol#australia? but what wta aussies are there. besides saville??#brazil obviously but idk do we even pair bia with anyone. she and iga are good friends but. hm.#caro garcia fell off the face of the planet which is unhelpful so france is kind of a no go#and germany haven't had a proper good wta player i think the entire time i've been watching tennis#same with the netherlands#china was good but fell off majorly in the 2010s. only coming back more recently so idk.#maybe interesting but i dont like navarro enough to write her and tbh i cant imagine another pairing for qinwen#whos left in footy. ENGLAND? i cant ship katie with anyone she and alex are like the golden couple in my mind#and i dont know enough about emma i think to properly write her#though wait..........CANADA. hm. let me cook here.#obviously wayy glossing over the americans here but thats because the main pairings i would probably do#are blocked by 1) greece being ass and 2) not wanting to write navarro (see above)#also the fact that my brain is screaming the whole time that half of these players are too tall to logically play anything other than gk#obviously this is all so irrelevant. u bet ur ass im gonna be writing this anyway.
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I don’t know what it is about the Jane Austen adaptations I’ve seen recently, but they just have so much trouble sticking the landing.
#i mean#ANY mansfield park adaptation??#especially 1999 but that one has a whole bunch of other stuff wrong with it too#and I almost GET IT because in the book the conclusion *is* very quick#but isn’t the point of an adaptation to expand on what is missing in the book?#also Emma and p&p#both of those books have such good rich things happen after the accepted proposals but the major adaptations just totally gloss over that??#Harriet and Robert meeting again in London! where’s my Emma adaptation that gives me that?!#Lizzy and Darcy being all cute after she accepts him!!!#I really feel like#in a miniseries ideally Darcy’s proposal and knightley’s proposal would both be at the *beginning* of the last episode#not almost at the end of it#because let! the other! things! happen!#let Austen’s storytelling shine!!!#can’t speak for the book in s&s discourse because I never finished it but like. 1995 and 2008 both had lovely endings#it’s not too hard in that sense#but it also is??? apparently? if we’re going by the 1981#need to watch the 70s one too#AND D O N ‘ T get me started on mansfield park#where ?! WHERE?!?! is my adaptation where we actually get to see Edmund slowly falling for Fanny at the end????#(I do not see 1999 it doesn’t exist)#like no. because in that one they paint Edmund like he’s been in love with Fanny forever and. no????#and then 2007 with him just having this random epiphany- what? two weeks after he breaks up with Mary?#and then he just runs out and kdrama-arm-grabs Fanny in the garden and kisses her??? HATE IT THANKS#at least when kdramas do it it’s kind of romantic#this Edmund was just creepy#and since we’re back on this discussion PLEASE I’VE BEEN ON MY KNEES give us a likeable Edmund!!!!!#I just used up my tag limit so I’m gonna tag this for my files and shut up and go to bed :) <3#elly's posts#jane austen
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Sojiro's voice actor is sooooo good, that "Huh?" was full of SO MUCH emotion I love it so much, it really did sound like an old man being SO CONFUSED and surprised at practically everything happened right now.
#aria rants#sounded so dumbfounded i love it#okay but like-- grand operation guys but are we rlly just gonna gloss over the mental effects to poor akiren getting#beat up and drugged by the POLICE??? oh im writing bout that. im gonna use that for fuel for jokid this is exactly#what ive been waiting for to be able to write that hurt/comfort of em in so long. also im cheering bout the fact that the#SIU Director is dead. thats what you GET for being such a yes man. bro your value was so low you can easily be replaced
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if raphael had the sense to offer me Emperor Gossip Hour whenever i wanted then maybe i would have taken his deal
#bg3#with all the things you can learn about the squid in act 3 i just think it'd be useful to have a space to discuss the lore#without his prying or whining that you're wasting time#but no#we gloss over that ability so that raphael can offer me something i can just steal from his house#even in an evil playthrough i wouldnt take the deal. if you're gonna be that sloppy you don't deserve the crown of karsus#it's funnier too when he offers you this deal as durge and tells you it's in his house#he implies when you first meet that he knows of you and your past exploits. he knows of the chosen and how they stole the crown#so he must know it was you and gorty who broke into daddy's forbidden vault#did he just think durge wouldn't try something similar again??#i may have reformed my ways of murdering innocents but i'm not above theft and you're no innocent#bg3 raphael#the dark urge
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Echo has a …… complicated relationship with gender, to say the least. And that is putting it mildly. They grew up in a time where experimenting with how you presented yourself and what pronouns you used just wasn't DONE in "polite circles." You were born, you lived, and you died as what you were assigned at birth.
But they never felt comfortable in their own skin when they were forced to wear the dresses their mother got for them, they hated the name they'd been given, hyper-feminine as it was, resorting more masculine nicknames to at least attempt to feel okay existing day-to-day. They hated being forced into little boxes, expected to demur to what the men in their life told them to do, to be "seen and not heard." To learn how to do their makeup to cover up the bruises and not to complain because they had it good, way better than most.
Even though their family and the people that knew them used feminine pronouns with them, when they were with people they actually trusted, those they felt relatively comfortable with, most people just referred to them with their preferred nickname or masculine pronouns, which felt much better, though still not quite right. At least not when they weren't leaning into that by wearing suits and slicking their hair back.
Which they did as much as they could get away with. Unfortunately, the blended in better in the background when they leaned into the feminine, which ended up being better for their business. So when they were on the job, they wore dresses and played into their assigned role, even if it chafed them.
It's one of the reasons they can usually be seen in their more androgynous or masculine forms after they died, unless they have a very specific reason for needing to present femme, likely for a job.
And while they can take on just about any appearance, they do have several that they favour, which are the ones that can usually be seen when they're just trying to be themself instead of someone else. Even in those forms, they still sometimes have trouble figuring out if they're actually them or if they're still some persona they're putting on. Maybe they don't actually know their own form at all, which is something they try not to think about too much, admittedly. They're mostly content with the fact they can change their appearance at wll, even if it does sometimes send them into a crisis.
#♜ echo : headcanon#[we're just gonna gloss right over some of that are we Echo?]#[apparently so]#[ffs]#period typical transphobia tw#[I've had this headcanon sitting in my drafts for ages so here we go]
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Listen I'm all for seeing Sada and Turo realize how they neglected Arven before their death and/or going a no death au route with it, and/or the AIs stepping in to help fill the parental rolls that he didn't have.
But personally it doesn't sit well to gloss over the neglect and emotional abuse entirely. I'm not saying to clarify that's a known fact every time they're talked about, I'm just saying to understand that they were neglectful and emotionally abusive parents, and that a good chunk of Arven's character arc was about realizing he wasn't just an afterthought in their lives and that he's his own person with his own thoughts/feelings/dreams/etc.
#i know i've talked about this before#but seeing a post that glossed that over and really excused how he was treated made me genuinely uncomfortable#considering how i was emotionally neglected by my parents and in some points neglected straight up-#it made me uncomfortable seeing how easily explained away arven's trauma was#i really want to leave it up to it was some misreading but at this point the posts defending the behavior of the professors-#just really downsize the trauma that we see in arven and take away what made him even more relatable to the majority of people#no his parents didn't just suddenly neglect him when they died it was back when he was a child#and how the last time he saw them in person was when they took back the giant lizard they dumped on him#like bulbapedia literally has all the quotes he says come on it's really hard to give the benefit of the doubt#like misreading while playing yeah but after it's all online it's hard excuse the ignorance#like i'm not saying 'oh i misread it my mistake' it's the 'i've seen all this stuff and i'm still gonna say he was pretty ok' things#he literally even says he hated the lizards because his parents took them back after escaping and he felt like he got replaced#like that's really hard to ignore as part of the trauma#thing is i block people who gloss that over because it's like-#it's very clear neglect and emotional abuse being excused and being portrayed in a way that's very 'hey sympathize with your trauma here'#which is awesome considering how that gets steamrolled or made fun of in most media#but looking at that and saying 'no he wasn't neglected at all it just started when the emails stopped' is like just...idk#'well he had food and books and his dog had a bed and-' those are very basic necessities#listen i always think back to my guidance class in elementary school and the lovely lady who taught it#and i always think about the videos we were shown explaining abuse and neglect and her telling us about it#and the story of neglect that stuck to me was this little girl who would be left at home for days on end with just a bowl of oranges#and then she would get passed from home to home#and i look at arven and think 'he's just like that little girl'#and then i think 'a lot of that was how i got treated'#i wasn't left at home for days on end but i was emotionally neglected in favor of my parents wanting to always argue-#and a lot of times we wouldn't have dinner because they would argue instead and i'd be too afraid to get food because of it#and seeing arven's trauma being excused/downplayed/ignored/etc is like 'where do you draw the line with that'#where do you draw the line that a child was neglected and emotionally abused and abandoned?#is it because his parents are somewhat attractive? because ai squeaked out a very personally forced 'they loved you'?#just because he wasn't physically abused doesn't make his trauma any less valid or his parents any less of shitty people
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