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Listen, I respect marvel for their infinity saga and I think it's great.

However

I do not know where that planning went. Because it's a mess currently, and I'm not talking about quality of the writing I'm talking about the gaping hole in the story.

And that would be the Eternals.

Like, it's such a logical successor to Endgame it's almost painful.

And for the risk of sounding like a cospiracy theorist

Think about it.

The whole plot of the Eternals feels like it was written for another storyline which was abandoned and never mentioned again and that's why it feels so off. Like some of the not so great MCU movies were saved because they intrconnected into the syory great and Eternals at the current point can't do that. That train has already left the station. And if they try to bring them back I don't see how that fits.

So a rewrite? Yeah, it would make so much sense.

So evidence?

Obivously we have Earth and space side to the Infinity saga. The space side very obiously being Guardians of the Galaxy.

What do they introduce? Celestials.

Great? Where are you going with this you may be asking?

You have Thanos who wants to destroy half of the Universe for balance and going by comics and MCU canon Thanos is either an Eternal with Deviant syndrome or at the very least connected to the Eternals.

His motivation for balance may very well be that he has seen what the Eternals can do and why they do it, so he wipes out half of the universe in order to stop Celestials from being born. Plausable. Especially since we know from Eternals that that is exactly what happens. The emergence is delayed by five years. And then all Thanos did gets reversed and it's back in full swing.

And then you have conflict between the Eternals about following or going against Celestials.

And I do believe they said something along the lines like 'oh, the eternals are the next big thing'.

How come?

In the comics and in the MCU we see that the Eternals are some sort of mind controlled/have their memory wiped every time a celestial is born. I think they are enslaved in the comics, but I may be confusing canons there.

Anyway, there you have a team and some of them start to break against that control and at the end in true hero film fashiom all come togheter to save the world. But oh, the cliffhanger, some of them are going to get judged by the Celestials.

This could be very interesting as it:

1. Explores Celestials and ecplains their birth

2. Puts Eternals as a group in that more important position

3. Sets up your next big bad - Celestials, probably Arishem

And like the Celestials got set up in GotG, set up the multiverse slowly in this new Celestial Saga i guess?

And back to the aformentioned rewrite.

We have this whole new Celestial Saga now. And ulike the Infinity saga this one focuses more on the space side of things - GotG, Eternals, Captain Marvel (maybe). This puts less focus on Earth side amd gives that the time to breathe and introduce new heroes and build up their characters, as well as give closure to Endgame and those lost.

We have a big bad now. We have the setting and characters. We lack the plot.

As I said the eternals would have much more important role - it's about them. Since Thanos is Eternal adjecent being and Starfox/Eros being an Eternal that works outside those we know, that van only mean that there are more of them. Like 100 if we are going by the comics.

Where are they? Scattered around the universe and/or maybe in direct service to the Celestials. You can introduce some of these characters. And if we go by Thanos and Eros they can apparently reproduce and by comics this is true as well.

Put the plot that moves slowly towards taking down Celestials, may they do with other characters as they will.

This is already very long and I think it would take me a very long time to plan out where every group is and write that down. So I'll just put down some point which would be interrsting to see.

Celestials have to have someone working for them, I propose the Kree and other Eternals

The Kree would bring the whole Skrull plotline under the umbrella.

The Eternals are obivous choice mainly because they already do but because the movie differs from the comics canon in how their hierarcy works and powers, hear me out, Gaian Sisterhood.

We know nearly nothing about them, one of them litteraly never appeared in the comics. Their names have titles like Of Times Past, Of Times Present, Of Times Future. Give them the powers to see into the past, present and future and the role of advisors to Celestials (willing/unwilling or both in order to create conflict) instead of the leadership of Eternals.

Two of them litteraly have children in the 10 that are in the movie - Thena and Ikaris. Go off of their pain and fate and create yet more conflict.

The Secret Invasion happens - we build up more on the Kree

GotG also build up on the Celestials

Have Captain Marvel face Kree, show that they are dangerous, have her lose - set the stakes

Slowly introduce new character who would become the Young Avangers

Leave Wandavision and NWH and rewrite multiverse of madness, so that it starts with Dr Strange thinking about opening up the multiverse for Peter and Wanda somehow finding that out

Build up on the lore of darkhold, don't show it yet

End the movie with introducing America, essentialy splot MoM in 2 films Dr Strange dealing with the consequences of NWH and Wanda trying to get her hands on the way he did it and the second part more horror like fight we see in MoM

When it comes to mutants and how to introduce them - easy. Have Eternals be at the end of human evolution. So you have Homosapiens -> Mutants -> Eternals. Build up on this in the Earth side of the saga.

Have the characters at the end come together to fight the Celestials only to realise 'Oh no, they are responisible for building worlds! Universes!'

And the mess that comes when you disrupt the balance by taking out the Celestials by having a disbalance in the Multiverse by introducing Kang to the story (ouside of Loki i mean)

This would end the Celestial Saga and start the Multiverse Saga.

The Multiverse saga should not introduce nothing new in my opinion because where do you to from there? What is a bigger threat than that? End it there and finish MCU with a big bang of a movie.

Thanky for reading all of this!

#i do not know how this came to be #the words just started coming out #i think it may be incomprehensible but if you can get the point kudos #hellou rants #mcu #marvel #avengers #multiverse saga #marvels eternals #guardians of the galaxy #dr strange #wanda maximoff #rewrite #or at leat the attempt #captain marvel #marvel cinematic universe

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hellou-i-guess · 2 months

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Hello, hello

Welcome to what is probably going to become a series of rants about the very unimportant details of books that live rent free in my head

Today I present to you:

The older brother of a least mentioned side character in a (unfortunately) very unapreciated sci-fi ya book

Now that that introduction is out of the way I have thoughts about Daniel Batu Wing from Warcross.

And I was not kidding about the character introduction. Warcross has a fandom with like 4 people in it in total, which is tragic in my opinion. Asher is a side character, the captain of the team and out of all of the friends Emika makes during the events of the book the one mentioned the least. So, now imagine how much his brother is mentioned.

I'll tell you - it's about 1.5 pages and 2 by-the-way mentions in around 600 pages of the duology.

So what are the things we know about Daniel:

He's Asher's older brother (if I had to guess maybe like 2-3 year age gap)

He's a famous actor and stuntman

He comes off arogant in Asher's memory when he is touched by Zero

He's Day's ancestor, so at some point he was married/had a girlfriend/one night stand - procreated so to say

And... that's about it really

So not much as you can see.

Now, what I have thought about reading the book and what led to this post is Asher (as a character I wish had more developement) and in turn his relationship with Daniel and that somehow led to a very badly done psycho analysis.

On to the bussiness.

The first time we see Daniel mentioned is when Emika meets Asher. She says that he is famous and that Asher was originally known as his younger brother and Ash gets a brief cold look at the mention of his brother.

The second time is when the dorm is blown up and Hamilton mentions that Asher's parents and brother are there to see him.

The third time is the memory in which we find out maybe the root of the problem between the brothers.

I would like to present to you my personal headcanons for the ages of Daniel and Asher. I like to think that Asher in the series is 22-23. Which would make Daniel somwhere around 25. I may explain my way of thinking this later, this is already long and I have told you nothing that you did not already know.

Why are the ages important, you may ask? The memory. Since Emika places the memory some 8-9 years, before the events of the series. The boys would be around 14 and 16.

From what we know their parents are getting a divorce and their house is a mess as well as the relationships in their family.

Daniel's way of dealing with this? Absolutely ignoring the situation around him. For what I understand to be a significant amount of time - a couple of years would do the trick.

So he sees what is happening and ignores his feelings and thoughts about the matter.

Why? Simple - he's neglected and feels alienated from his family so he alienates them back.

One another headcanon I would like to mention, that sort of makes Daniel's attitude and things he says make sense, is that Asher lost the use of his legs in an accident some time before their parents divorce.

This, understandably, makes the parents dote on Ash and in turn neglect Daniel.

And I say this because to me at least it seems that Ash does not understand that Daniel does not want him around and sees Ash as a problem. Most likely due to some change in dynamic Asher is not aware of. Which is perfectly understandable because why would his relationship with his brother change?

We see some evidence for this in:

Asher: Where are you going?

Daniel:...

Asher: You know what? You don't have to tell me? I don't have to know every single thing about your life, when you clearly don't care for me.

Daniel *sarcastically*: You only need me to care. Don't you have enough people giving you attention already?

Or something along those lines, I have the translated copy.

He sound so bitter and jelous there.

And Asher ( who is not good at dealing with people, like at all (also a post for another time)) calls out on Daniel's coping mechanism (ignoring the divorce). In which part I understand given the next part of the conversation where Daniel tells Ash that he isn't doing much better and Ash, not at all reading the situation or understanding that Daniel also means ignoring the divorce, says that Daniel is not doing much better, but at least his victories are the reason they have food on the table.

First of all, some A+ parenting, right there.

Second of all, Dany straight up goes for Asher's throat after this and that entire conversation causes a rift between them.

Very fun on all sides, as you can see.

What's fun to point out is that Daniel acts like a threatened animal. He was ready for jumping at his attacker the first available moment from the moment Asher refused to put the matter to rest.

We see this from Ash's POV, but how would it look like to Daniel?

He has a small career, that he's very proud of

He's starved for attention from the people he needs it from the most in his teenage years

The only attention he gets grom family comes from the very reason he is neglected (not to say Asher is at fault here, because he is not. Daniel just seems to place the fault on him)

All of the family's finance and well being is put on the shoulders of the youngest member of the family who is disabled

Like, he, as most older siblings (it's a curse), feels the need to, in some capacity, provide something to the houshold when the parents clearly don't, but he only continues to ignore the situation at hand.

If their parents have not gotten a divorce, Dany would have probably ran away from home a mnd cut all contact.

And like all things that are ignored, the sitation at hand comes to bite him in the butt in the form of Asher (the aformentioned problem) who just keeps on pressing the sore spot until Daniel has to options - run away again and keep the cycle going or bit back and get rid of the problem. And bite he does.

To his credit, Daniel was most likely 16 at the time of this and none of us emotionally mature at that age, he delt with his emotion really badly, took it out on the wrong person and soured his relationship with his family.

They have most likely made up (I do not think that the cold look Ash had at the mention of Daniel was because the had bad blood, but rather that Emika put him again in the back of his brother's shadow when Ash worked hard to get out of it). Why do I think this? You don't fly half-way across the planet to check on someone you don't like/don't speak with/have bad blood with, when if he wanted to come across as caring he would have called or texted. Or ask third party who knows what happend and has seen Ash like Roshan, Hamilton or their parents.

So yeah, to sum up this way too long of a rant in which nothing was said, Dany was just a teenager in a horrible situation with which he delt badly.

And to those who have suffered through this, thank you :)

#warcross #daniel batu wing #asher wing #warcross duology #character analysis #hellou rants #i have returned both to tumblr and to this fandom with something unimportant #like i was legit here when there was 10 posts total in the tag #funnily enough my first post on the now deleted blog was also about warcross #how the turns have tabled #now i come to you with this... thing?

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