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Lady nagant is the probably best female character we can get

Wow, that's an incredibly low bar right there.

1. Let's introduce an attractive waifu, with no build-up, give her a kind of cliché backstory that doesn't even fit very well into the universe you created so far,

2. Have her pair up with another villain for no good reason whatsoever

3. hype her up to the sky only to behave totally dumb and be defeated very easily,

4. have her oscillate between having strong convictions so she can show greyness to the MC and being no-jutsued in 30 seconds flat by the MC doing something that every hero does

5. have her blow up smiling adoringly at you MC

6. Give her another moment of hyping up another male character for having shining eyes and stronger moral fiber than she does

7. Make her last act of "defiance" being basically revealing info that is a (very obvious) trap, just to show she has no agency whatsoever

8. Ship her off to a hospital and out of the story.

I wouldn't call this peak development of a female character. Nagant is a plot device to develop Deku's power and thinking and while her design was interesting, the writing around her was absolutely terrible.

If you want a well-written female character, I suggest looking at Toga or into Mt Lady's development, who started out like an attention hog in Chapter 1:

and then grew with the events - every step of the way:

showing her moral fibre

her understanding of hero work

her grit

Influencing the main plot and becoming a mature hero, who perseveres even when the fame, glory, adoration, perks are gone.

This is at least the type of development I look for in a character.

Sometimes a family is a dumbass rockstar doing his best, a sharpshooter with family issues, a nearly 50yo tank with anxiety, their therapist who draws a lot, some lady with self-worth issues who tried to kill them, and the cat they use as a personal telephone.

I think a lot about Shepard's fish tank wipeout in the Citadel DLC.

The entire DLC is this lighthearted love letter to Mass Effect, and it's beautiful. But then there's THIS moment. When Shepard falls through a fish tank.

The entire way down, they desperately try to arrest their fall. They have no shields. No combat armor. There is no one to catch them. It feels like this is one of the few times there is ever fear. And they don't land gently. And the cut scene lingers on it. There is no levity in this moment. Shepard is on the ground, groaning in pain, slow to get up, clutching their ribs. First instinct before they try to get to their feet? Reach for the gun. Have that first. Then see if you can stand.

And I think the only reason we can have this moment, where Shepard is vulnerable, injured, and in trouble, is because there is no one there to see. The moment Brooks gets on the comm, they crack a joke. "Yup. Feeling good." While unable to stand up straight.

We get this at the end of the game, too, but that's when the stakes are at their highest. That's when it's supposed to be hard. It's no less magnificent then, but now, in this moment? When everything was happy and fun and silly? MAN.

And afterward, everyone jokes about it. Every single member of your squad makes a crack about the sushi place. And Shepard plays along. Haha, yeah, fell right through it, while trying to change the subject.

No one knows what that fall was like. No one saw Shepard lying on the ground in the bowls of the Silversun Strip, water dripping off them, struggling to get to their feet.

And no one asks, because it's Shepard.

this is the end

hold your breath and count to ten

feel the earth move and then

hear my heart burst again

PREACH IT!!!

a criticism I see of sao is often along the lines of “what’s the message? that video games are better than real life? that being trapped in the game was Good, Actually? that doesn’t apply to real life at all. that’s a useless thought experiment akin to contemplating the ethics of fucking your clone.”

the way the aincrad arc was about how you have to find love and happiness in the here & now, no matter how bleak things are. because when fighting for a cause, it’s so easy to deny yourself joy until that far-off dream is achieved; you tell yourself you’ll rest after you’ve saved enough money for early retirement. or when capitalism is over and homelessness eradicated. or when you’ve finally reached peak physical form. or when the war is over.

but so many people die before that happens. or they live to see it but shortly succumb to trauma or just the ravages of time. all those years spent fighting for your cause, but now you’ve won you’re an adult and you never had a chance to have any semblance of a childhood. or now you’ve grown so accustomed to misery, you don’t know how to treat happiness- so accustomed to pressure and hatred, you’re cruel and harsh to the people around you.

in sao, life went on, in its strange way. people went fishing. they got married. they cooked and ate for pleasure. they did quests and events for fun. people sarcastically say “they’re trapped in a death game and all they can think about is buying a cottage and fucking?” as if there wasn’t a very direct reasoning for this in the plot. them experiencing a sort of burnout, as well as distrust in the system as it was. them realising their own mortality, that they could be killed any day now; that it’s better to die in love than to die miserable.

the suffering never ends

One last comic before I got to bed lol || Peppermint is about to GET ITTTTT RAAAAA || I drew so much Chai today oops

Dragon Age Lore Timelines: Part 1/3

There are 14 of these that chronicle major events in Thedas. I worked way too long on these, so don't steal them, but feel free to share them!!

I love this so much, I’m gonna start saying “nuts” we need to bring it back

I think the message of Howl’s Moving Castle is that in order to maintain a successful relationship with some kind of fucked up wizard, you must find it in yourself to also be some kind of fucked up wizard.