91 posts
Latest Posts by madtank95 - Page 3
My Buffy Problem
I like Spuffy as a couple, I intensely dislike Bangel, but I really like Angel as a character. Angel might actually be my favorite character, I just can’t stand him with Buffy, I think they bring out the worst in each other. My problem, why do so many Spuffy stories have to come with Angel bashing? They give plenty of evidence for why they don’t work together that doesn’t take from either character. Why do they have to turn Angel into this huge bully? Why can’t they just have Angel naturally mature away from Buffy? I get he had a lot of problematic behavior around her when he was with her, treating her like one of his former victims minus the killing at the end, but he hadn’t been around humans in decades, he didn’t know how to act around them. Angel’s show is all about him learning to be human, really, Buffy showed him that he could be redeemed, that’s why he’s so attached, but they don’t work. Also, what’s with everyone saying he lost his soul because he had took Buddy’s virginity? It was about her acceptance of him, he felt absolved by her so he could feel truly happy for a brief moment. After Angelus returned, Angel realized he could never be absolved by someone else, he just has to be better on his own and help people. I’m just frustrated by people feeling the need to detract from Angel as a character in order to boost Spuffy, Spuffy doesn’t need it, Spike and Buffy work as a couple on their own because they’re compatible people.
Harry Potter Complaint
Okay, so I don’t even know why I care anymore because I’ve already decided that Harry Potter is overrated and I should be done with it but I can’t stop thinking about how JK Rowling messes up magic in North America. I’m not even going to bother getting into all the issues with what she said about Native American magic, that’s a whole different problem that I don’t have the knowledge to competently talk about. My biggest issue is with the political landscape of the magical community I. The United States. Does she not know anything about how Congress and our branches of government work? There is just not possible way for there to be a magical president before the United States as a country was formed. Also, there would be no magical president at all, is there a magical prime minister in her books? No, there isn’t, there is a Minister of Magic, so it should be the Secretary of Magic. Further, what the hell is with Ivermony somehow being the only school for magic between all of the United States and Canada, does she have any idea how big these two countries are? We aren’t little island Britain that can pull off having one school, we are a massive continent, it’s complete unfeasible even if we did have the same culture of boarding school as they do, which we don’t. If you aren’t going to bother doing any research about the country you’re writing about before you starts describing a secret society in their midsts, don’t write anything.
Percy Jackson Headcannon
The strength a the demigod is dependent on the strength of the relationship between their parents, the more a god cares for their mortal lover the more favored their child is. That’s why Percy is so OP, Poseidon adored Sally.
DC Comics - a thought
So the thing about the BatCat wedding, of which there were so many mistakes but in this particular case my problem is with the wedding party, look, I love Alfred and his relationship with Bruce, but he would not be the best man, he would be his father and whatever role in the wedding that that that would have held. Bruce’s best man would also not have been Dick or any of the other Robins because they are his sons and that is a different relationship.
Bruce’s best man should be Clark with Diana as his second groomsmen, that’s just how it needs to be.
DC Comics - a thought
There’s a tendency in fanfiction that I’ve noticed to kind of de power Superman and Wonder Woman in favor of making Batman and the Batfamily look better. Part of this is probably because of the overwhelming amount of stories centered on Batfamily dynamics and that when writing shock and awe fics people want familiar characters to be their outsider pov, but it just doesn’t work right with Superman and Wonder Woman.
Another part of this is probably because of how the characters get presented in the comics, unfortunately both Superman and Wonder Woman have had to deal with a lot of flip flopping with their powers because the characters were made too powerful and the turn back to try and make them less overpowered has backlashed into making them too weak at times depending on the story. Not to mention how since Batman is part of the trinity that is the face of DC they want to make him equal to the other two within the canon, and it just doesn’t work. I don’t care how smart he is, Batman just cannot handle the problems Superman and Wonder Woman face, he’s only human.
I don’t know, it’s just a common occurrence for a popular character to try and have their real world popularity reflected in the comics, even when it doesn’t work, Batman and Spider-Man have that problem, the latter significantly more so than the former since Batman actually does play a pretty important role to the Justice League, just not quite to the point as he is represented, I think.
ATLA fic idea
So Zuko spent almost three years looking for any trace of the Avatar before Aang came out of the ice. What if, alongside investigating the air temples for information about airbenders, he also tracked down spirit tales. The Avatar is the bridge between the spirit world and the human one, it would make sense that Zuko would consider any spiritual activity to be possibly Avatar related. I think a fun story would be about the misadventures Zuko and his crew get up to tangling with whatever spirits they end up coming across and having to deal with in their search.
This could either be a funny slice of life type story or a more serious one. One of the Avatar’s main duties is dealing with problems between spirits and humans, with him gone there’s probably been all sorts of things going wrong on that front. An interesting idea could be Zuko being forced to handle some of these problems just because he stuck his nose in it and realizing just how important the Avatar really is to the world. I’ve always though the Avatar isn’t nearly as important to human politics as they are to human-spirit relations. That could be a cool AU, with Zuko wanting to make sure Aang does his duties like he’s supposed to.
I don’t know, this is kind of just a stream of thoughts, but I think fics exploring the spirits of the ATLA world are really interesting and I love stories with Zuko’s crew, so combining the two would be awesome.
Yu-gi-oh! Thought
It occurs to me that Vrains makes sense as a possible future to the first series in the yugioh timeline instead of GX and 5Ds. GX and 5Ds are supposed to be in the future of Yugioh Duel Monsters but the technology doesn’t match with what was shown in the Dark Side of Dimensions movie, Vrains, however, does. So it kind of works timeline wise that DSOD is the basis of a branch in the timeline, GX and 5Ds happen in the timeline where Kaiba never figures out VR tech, ie, DSOD never happens. Meanwhile, Vrains is the future where VR tech does happen, the future post DSOD. No idea where Zexal, Arc-V or Sevens fits into it, just thought it could work.
Yugioh! 5Ds Headcannon
Yusei, Crow and Jack learned to turbo duel on regular motorcycles using old duel disks. Duel runners actually have quite a few modifications to them in order to use them in dueling, autopilot and connected duel disks are part of that. Yusei has to jerry rig a separate device that lets them add speed counters and had to hack their disks to allow for speed spells so the boys could learn to play.
Fanfic Complaint
Why is Peter Parker infantelized so often in fanfic? When has he ever acted like any of those portrayals in the comics? And I don’t count obvious pandering like certain stories in the post Raimi era.
Peter Parker is a sarcastic asshole who gives ridiculous nicknames to his friends and doesn’t know the meaning of minding your own business. He loves his friends and family deeply and is incredibly overprotective of them. He’s also insanely overpowered with most of the people he’s facing. Spidey isn’t an Avenger who faces galactic wide cosmic threats, though he’ll help out if they need him. Spidey does the every day stuff, street crime and weird criminals with powers who like to dress up and make a show of it all.
And Peter Parker certainly is in no need of Avenger parental figures, he has Aunt May and Robbie Robertson and Curt Connors and even J Jonah Jameson. The entire idea of the gross Dad!Tony and Son!Peter and Superfamily stories make me want to scream.
Fanfic Complaint
Why is Hashirama portrayed as such a bad brother in fanfic so often? Or Butsuma being monstrously abusive? Or the Senju clan hating Tobirama because of his looks? I get wanting to garner sympathy for the character but I personally hate the idea of Tobirama having a family that can’t stand him.
Give me long suffering Senju who have long since grown used to weird explosions and odd looking experiments. Give me sappy, overprotective Hashirama who loves to spoil his only remaining baby brother. Give me a Tobirama who is loved and supported by his family and clan.
Naruto Headcanon
The Mokuton might be the Senju clan’s pure kekkai genkai but they also have something of a secondary family attribute, kind of like the Nara shadow techniques. The Senju are all predisposed to nature chakra, it’s part of what fuels the Mokuton. Tobirama’s talent for Suiton and his sensory abilities are also connected to the Senju predisposition for nature chakra.
Just a thought.
Hetalia - Hogwarts
I don’t actually have much interest in the Harry Potter fandom, not anymore. I think the entire series is overrated and that there are way too many Hogwarts AUs out there.
That being said, America would absolutely be sorted into Slytherin no matter what he likes to say about him being the Hero.
Suspension of Disbelief in Sci-Fi
The problem with learning anything of significance about history, geography, linguistics, biology and psychology is that it really interferes with the suspension of disbelief you need to enjoy science fiction. Humans are so complicated and so different depending on their culture and region, their language and the time period they exist in that all the alien species that are introduced always seem overly simplified. Not to mention how diverse the planet is depending on where it is, the alien planets are also overly simplified. The thing of it is, I really like sci-fi, I just want more thought given to diversity of alien species and planets.
OUAT Opinion
I hate the idea that Hook went to Neverland because of Emma, in fact I don’t really like how their entire relationship was established. They had way too little screen time to show anything properly building, the entire thing felt way too rushed. Which is unfortunate because I do actually like their dynamic as a couple. Anyway, Neverland, Hook didn’t go because of Emma, he went because of Neal/Baelfire and Milan. Henry is Milah’s grandson! Of course Hook wanted to save him, he’s a part of the woman Hook loved for three hundred years!
I don’t even know why I still care about this, I stopped watching OUAT after all the Frozen bullshit and it’s seriously problematic on a lot of levels, I’m not even sure I like any of it anymore.
OUAT AU Idea
Killian and Liam are the sons of Wendy Darling and Davvy Jones. At some point Wendy and her brothers end up back on Neverland, only they’re all older and for Wendy that makes her an adult, not something welcome in Peter’s Neverland unless you’re a pirate or a member of the tribe. She’s not welcome with the latter so Wendy becomes a pirate, taking up the moniker she’d thought up for herself so long ago, Red Handed Jill. With James Hook gone the Jolly Roger has been left adrift, none of its crew willing to take the captainship.
When Jill steps in they’re tired enough to let her take command, especially after she promises to help them leave Neverland. She keeps her word and they end up leaving in what is probably a fascinating story that involves Wendy sending her brothers back to England and Peter being forced to give up the title of Pan.
The Jolly Roger ends up in the Enchanted Forest realm and they sail there for a while as pirates until the ship is destroyed in a battle with another pirate ship, the Flying Dutchman. Jill and the surviving crew members, one of which is Smee, end up on the Flying Dutchman with the option of joining the crew or being run through.
Over time Jill and Davvy end up falling in love and he extends to her and the other interested crew members the situational immortality his magic blood and bond with his ship allows. They sail together for decades, Jill becoming known for her love of obtaining book and amassing a great collection. Eventually they choose to settle down and Davvy sends the Flying Dutchman off...somewhere. Jill and Davvy have two children before some kind of event happens that forces them to leave the boys to take care of it. They intend to return but don’t make it and Killian and Liam are left as orphans.
From there their canon story occurs, mostly as is. Malcom takes over Neverland as the new Pan and Killian, after losing his hand, decides to take after the man of his mother’s stories and takes up the moniker of Hook.
The England that Wendy is from isn’t the same as the England of the World-Without-Magic, but is instead a close copy where all the famous fictional stories and characters set in the “real world” take place, like Sherlock Holmes, Alice, Jekyll and Hyde, Frankenstein (who doesn’t live in a world without color and doesn’t try to bring his brother back, it’s the actual book), etc. So, basically Killians is actually familiar with the geography and some of the history of Emma’s world, but he keeps that to himself since you never know what could come in handy.
I Hated Homecoming
I am so tired of a teenage Peter Parker in all my non-comic book media. Peter graduated high school in, like, issue 34 of the comic book, in the mid-60’s when Steve Ditko was still drawing the guy. He’s been an adult of some kind for almost the entirety of his 50+ run. I get that adaptions aren’t meant to be exact replicas and they’re supposed to bring something new, but the things is, they really aren’t. All the movies just keep treading the same ground, Spider-Man is so much more than a high school student. And on that note, I know Stan Lee said in some interview somewhere that Peter Parker is meant to be a so called “everyman” but I’m pretty sure that just means he has to deal with real world problems, not that he’s a generic audience stand in. Even if that is what he mean, it isn’t what Peter is, not anymore. Peter Parker has had fifty years of writing to establish a distinct and definitive personality, none of which was seen in Homecoming. I don’t know what character Tom Holland was given to play but it wasn’t Peter Parker, that’s for sure. Honestly, the whole “he’s just a good kid” vibe he had makes it seem like he was playing Miles Morales more than Peter Parker, the science magnet school and Ned/Ganke Thing certainly don’t help with that. Why did Marvel feel the need to rip off the character that hasn’t even been around for one decade instead of using stories from the character that’s been around for five. Not to mention Tony Stark. For one thing, I don’t really like that character in the first place and secondly, why did he need to shoehorned in as some kind of stupid father figure that Peter doesn’t need? He isn’t even good at that and inserting him into what is meant to be a homage to one of the most iconic scenes in comic books gives me no end of frustration. I have never been satisfied with any of the cinematic adaptions for Spider-Man and the fact that the current one is just Marvel pandering to a false fandom created version of Spider-Man is infuriating. I blame the Raimi films, they were the mainstream audience’s introduction to this character and it wasn’t a good one. Tobey Maguire’s nibbish version of Peter Parker was cemented into the minds of the general public and I hate it. Now I’ll admit, I have a very particular view on what Peter Parker is meant to be like and I struggle with being flexible in my opinions, but I just wish my favorite character didn’t have so many problems with false public images.
BNHA Headcannon
Gran Torino adopted All Might. Toshinori met Nana when he was in middle school, like 13. Since he’s an orphan she decides to take him in, before All Might became the Symbol of Peace a lot of systems were pretty corrupt, including the foster care system. Obviously Nana can’t adopt Toshinori herself since that would draw All for One’s attention, so Gran Torino does it.
Naruto Headcannon
Yamato is a Senju, maybe even a direct descendent of Hashirama. That’s why the Mokuton worked with him, he had the right genetics for it from the beginning. It was a combination of the right blood and how young he was when the experimentation happened that allowed Hashirama’s cells to stick.
Spider-Man AU idea
Peter Parker, Mary Jane Watson and Johnny Storm should all be in one relationship together because that would be amazing and they’d all make each other really happy.
Also I can’t decide between PeterMJ and SpideyTorch so they should just all just be together, that way no one gets left out.
Scooby-Doo AU-ish
Velma is a conspiracy theorist and cryptid obsessed, fascinated by all myths, legends and folklore and even the mention of magic of any kind. Sure she’s a scientist, but that just means she wants to figure out how and why the magic works, it doesn’t make her a sceptic.
None of the gang are sceptics, they can’t be, not when they go around with a talking dog familiar and his lanky warlock companion.
Shaggy’s the only one who actually has any magical ability but it’s Velma who’s figuring out how he can use it. He found Scooby when he was seven, playing in the woods behind his house when suddenly there’s this little brown puppy smiling at him and talking to him. Shaggy didn’t think anything of it, Velma became obsessed with figuring out what he was, Fred went into denial about if for a solid year and Daphne just shrugged and said that the talking dog was weird but cool and moved on.
Daphne has always been good at accepting things that most people would be stopped in their tracks on, Shaggy too, of course, Velma and Fred are the ones who need the explanations, though Velma will accept a magical one while Fred would prefer an actual scientific one. He’s a mechanic and an engineer kind of person, strictly in the confines of the hard sciences even though the life he lives means he can’t deny the fact that science isn’t actually the end all be all.
It was Velma’s idea to start the road trip the summer after they finished high school, she was determined to find an explanation for Shaggy and Scooby. There were rumors and stories about the supernatural all over the place and it gave the gang some vague goals for the trip. Daphne, always looking for a reason to get out of her too big too quiet mansion of a home, was all for it and Shaggy has always been willing to go along with Velma’s schemes. Fred was the one who took the most convincing, but he came around eventually, like always.
The road trip became a tradition, any time they had a long enough break between their classes at university, or cooking school in Shaggy’s case, they hopped into Fred’s van and headed out to see what kind of adventure they’d get into this time. Sometimes they stumbled onto real magic and sometimes they didn’t, but an adventure was an adventure either way.
Velma became incredibly skilled at detective work, Fred grew increasingly able with trap building, Shaggy practiced his magic and Daphne had all sorts of chances to use her many eclectic skills.
(Growing up the surprise child of a rich couple with five already grown daughters led to a wide range of lessons from sewing and music to fencing and martial arts to literally anything she wanted to try out ever.)
Mostly the gang just lived their lives, it just so happened those lives included jetsetting around the world and dealing with an absurd amount of insane mishaps.
Hetalia Headcannon
This is a lot more AU than an actual Headcannon but I still like to apply it when I can. The Nations have the ability to look like whatever way they want to, they can switch their height, weight, race and gender whenever they feel like it, they just have a habit of sticking to the form they knew the best growing up.
PJO Headcannon
How powerful a demigod turns out to be is dependent upon their parents’ relationship. The stronger the emotional bond between god and mortal the stronger the half-blood.
Sakura’s excitement for her team assignment had faded somewhere around the first hour mark, after all the other teams had been collected by their jounin-sensei. Sasuke has resolutely ignored both her and Naruto the whole time and even the hyperactive blond himself had run out of steam in their long wait. His stupid prank was in place and all three were staring somewhat mindlessly at the chalkboard ahead of them.
It was just as Sakura had resolved to go ask someone if they’d been forgotten that the door to the classroom finally opened. A Kunoichi stepped into the classroom, the eraser balanced on the top of the door fell neatly on top of her head with a plop, prompting a cloud of chalk dust to puff into the air and settle on her head. Naruto immediately started guffawing over it while Sakura jumped to her feet and tried to apologize while internally she was pleased at the silly prank’s success. Sasuke made no real movement.
The Kunoichi who was to be their sensei observed them silently, head tilted slightly. She was pretty, even with most of her face hidden due to the mask covering the bottom half of her face and her hitai-ate tilted to cover her left eye. She was dressed in a standard Shinobi uniform and had her long silver hair pulled back into a ponytail. With a small nod she addressed them, “My first impression of you? ... I hate you, now meet me on the roof in ten minutes.” And with that, she vanished in a swirl of leaves, leaving the three Genin gaping after her.
