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.
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I love that scene where Sawyer finally got to mount his dragon and Ridoc gets the zoomies and hugs every person he can get his hands on😭
HE'S SO FKN CUTE!!!
3 hours before Jame lost his S
Are fedoras really that bad?
YES YES THEY ARE
who just sent me money “for being perfect”
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.
Things worn down by people.