I Will Literally Never Get Over These Two Being Perfect Compatible Opposites.

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I love foils. So, here's a collection of similarities between Vox and Alastor!

The classic angry table clawing - everyone knows that one:

Smiling for heightened control and influence (and smiling through annoyance):

The [demonic shock] [slow head turn] [extra filtered voice] "haha, what did you [just] say?" scenes:

These scenes, at the beginning and end of Stayed Gone:

Depicting themselves as a member of a religious institution to vie for the audience's trust:

Mochi Miles I Would Kill For You

If I remember correctly he is described as having an air of sleaziness.

"You could go any direction you like with your interpretation of (OG/Shang Qinghua), just come up with a characterization from scratch. I guess I imagine him being even slimier and more resentful than SVSSS Shang Qinghua, hungry for respect and lashing out at all perceived slights." So he's Su Mingshan.

Basically. Jin Guangyao is also a top contender for sample characterization, depending on whether Original Shang Qinghua was capable of being charming / likable. I want to say something about the intelligence of Jin Guangyao vs. Su Minshan here, but JGY let his spite and resentment make some truly foolish and evil moves, so I don’t think it really matters. 

I don’t think SVSSS ever makes it clear whether the public perception of Original Shang Qinghua pre-betrayal was more “What a helpful and upstanding [martial] family man! Shame about his mediocre cultivation and low background.” (Jin Guangyao) or more “Oh, that guy.” / the main thing most people remember about this guy is the earworm diss track 13-year-old Lan Jingyi wrote about him that got mysteriously popular (Su Minshan, I assume). 

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This is the vibes of the ship, yes

Professional hating

wait is Manny Jacinto’s character in The Acolyte really and truly called Darth Teeth?

because that’s hilarious and I love it

remember when we all thought Maul was a silly-sounding Sith name?

Darth Teeth

It even has matching th sounds to make it hard to pronounce without spitting a little

WHY ISN'T THIS TALKED ABOUT MORE

😡🤬😤

Well, I've seen the theory that the only reason Overlord had his moment on Necroworld is because of that mental weapon that makes people feel guilty, which if it's true makes sense why he seemingly relapsed after getting out of range.

ok your posts lead me to actually read rotw and it’s… short?? like the sheer amount of content you’ve put out about megan gaslighted me into thinking she’d spend a few issues being developed as a villain but nope, like three panels of showtime before she’s blasted into robot mode. So congrats on how much you fleshed her out.

YEAH. Yeah it’s like. Legit criminal how little of Megan we actually got, and with such little explanation too.

And it’s sad! Imagine we got more screentime for the main baddies, not just Overlord. Picture: there’s a whole mystery around who this anti-cybertronian campaigner who appeared out of literally nowhere. Then it’s discovered she’s in kahoots with Tarantulas, which raises the alarm for the heroes, then BOOM Overlord reveal! Afterwards there’s more dedication to explaining how and why they teamed up and began the experiment. That would’ve been much better than what was essentially “here’s this ordinary angry lady withJUST KIDDING ITS OVERLORD!”

The problem with Requiem is that it was a single issue, compared to the multi parter wreckers stories before it. So the pacing was bad, the characters were chaotically written, and ofc while Overlord was still one of the highlights, the whole Megan thing was abysmally underdeveloped when it had so much potential for a liar revealed narrative! Not only that but just questions answered for how he got accustomed to human life and how it affected the innocent people around him. But oh well, that’s primarily why FOWAU became a thing 😂