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Oh, sorry, I just thought you missed my answer due to so many questions

Naw a good rule of thumb is give it a good 24 hours. If I don't respond by then, I either didn't get it or just totally missed it.

While I have you here though, I want to warn you that I'm pretty sure these shots are gonna be fucked up in some way. I have a distinct memory of trying to take these POVs when I was going through and making sets, and I decided against it for some reason. I don't remember why though.

But they deliberately did not make the cut for quality reasons.

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I want to ask this bc youve been in the fandom for longer and I'd like your analysis of this as a social phenomenon.

So the tweet that was deleted was a mutual saying Ada is an anti-hero and she is important to the narrative but she is not part of the main cast. He was attacked by so many ppl he deactivated.

Most of the responses were "Keep Ada out of your mouth, talk abt your fav". What is this lmao. When did expressing your opinion on a character from a videogame become such a big deal.

Is this new in the fandom? Bc God knows I scroll past dumb takes all the time bc like you keep saying, nothing we say here truly matters and defending your fav character to death or bragging abt how many likes your edits have on TW or TT aint gonna make a difference. Capcom aint really looking.

They're so quick to jump to defend pixels. Is it projection? They think they're the character or sth so it feels like theyre being attacked? It truly baffles my mind bc it got super ugly.

This is a new thing...ish. There was always "Ada's a bitch who manipulated Leon" discourse, but Ada fans always historically celebrated her anti-hero status. It was one of the main things they liked about her character.

This strikes me as the younger generation not knowing what an anti-hero is. Because it's not being taught in schools anymore. They don't realize that an anti-hero still performs heroic acts and is generally looked at as a protagonist. They looked at it and probably read it as "the opposite of a hero." And that's not their fault. But as a Vegas folk, if I were to bet on this, that's what I'd put my money on having happened.

Also bragging about engagement on your fan edit isn't a new phenomenon, but this generation takes it far more seriously than mine did. My generation looked at numbers purely as clout within the fandom or a mark of quality of their work. This generation thinks their numbers mean that Mr. Capcom himself is going to see it and make their headcanons canon. It's insanity to me.

But in terms of an overall jumping to defend pixels? Oh yeah that was always a thing. The Ada vs Claire arguments got so viciously misogynistic in a way that outperformed fetish anon, even. But it wasn't constant, because social media didn't exist. These arguments happened between 2-4 people at a time in multi-paragraph essays on livejournal and various forums -- not single-sentence dogpiles of constant bombardment against one fucking person.

Social media has made fandom demonstrably worse in every way. It has done nothing to improve or build on fandom. It has only eroded the experience and made it shittier.

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Please show Leon and Ashley's face close up when he leaves on the elevator to save Ada?

Homie I work nights. I wasn't home when you sent the first ask, and I'm still not home. Settle.

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man... every day it be getting harder and harder to say Leon and Ashley r a cute fairytale romance cuz DAWG WHAT WAS THAT WHOLE VIRGINITY SPEECH?? NOT KINK SHAMING BUT BROTHER KEEP IT IN YOUR 4CHAN EROTICA?? EW??

Anon being a coomer doesn't actually affect the actual ship. It just means anon is a coomer.

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Why do you want Ashley to be a whore lol

Why do you hate women lol

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It’s fine to have certain fetishes (I do not have any room to judge here) but Jesus Christ, if you’re going to have a virgin fetish, previous anons, at LEAST be less weird and creepy about it.

Exactly this. I have absolutely no problem with anyone headcanoning Ashley as a virgin. I don't care about what ANYONE headcanons. Other people's headcanons affect me not at all. There was an anon last night, even, that I told "I disagree but I respect your opinion." Because they were a normal human person about it.

My response to these previous anons had nothing to do with their headcanons and everything to do with them smearing their weird fetish shit all over my inbox and doing so under the guise of discourse.

I don't care if you're anon. Don't come to my house and just take your dick out. I don't care if I can't see your face. I don't want to see your dick. Keep it in your fucking pants. Be normal for two goddamn seconds.

OR if you have to be weird and horny, at least own it. Own your weird horniness. Don't try to dress it up as serious analysis and then throw it back on me when I don't buy what you're selling. Because that makes it weirder.

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No, I’m just telling it like it is, but you all really want the experienced 20-year-old daughter of the president who has fucked at least once, it’s really funny.

You're a creep.

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When they don’t agree with you, you start saying that people don’t understand something, that they are stupid or crazy. Not everyone agrees with your headcanons, you have to accept it.

No, you're just a fucking creep.

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After reading everything I can say one thing. You all treat the game like the real world, but it’s not like that, everything works differently there. Even though this is a horror game with a rating, the characters there don't look like real people, they shouldn't because it's a fictional universe, so you're all wrong. Don’t compare reality and the fictional world where everything is embellished and where almost all female and some male characters do not have relationships because they are not interested in it and they only think about their work, this only happens in fairy tales. The fictional universe president's daughter won't fuck anyone, because she is literally the personification of purity and, as you like to say, she is a princess in this game, and princesses do not sleep with anyone, to put it bluntly.

Holy shit?????

I thought the gooner schedule was full up with crying about Stellar Blade censorship, but I suppose there's always time to express indignant buttrage about pure innocent virgin waifus.

"Why is RE fandom so hostile towards eagleone fans?" This. This is why. This is the reason. I need you guys to at least pretend like you know how to be normal about your headcanons.

#also whos gonna tell eduard badaluta and ella freya that they dont look like real people lmao

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that incel saying ashley is a virgin and describing it like that is very very creepy 💀💀

might be the same type of guys that think Ada is a sex goddess and fucks around every day of her life

my single only ada headcanon is that she uses her sexual appeal to her advantage for tactical reasons but in reality can count the number of sexual partners she's had in her entire life on one hand

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Hate hate HATE the weird fetishization of virginity surrounding female characters. It gets so gross...

Women who fuck aren't less innocent.

Women who fuck aren't less valuable.

Virgins can be confident and open about relationships and interacting with those they are attracted to.

Virgins aren't a fucking prize for the male character.

Nobody is going to hell.

Seriously, purity culture is so extremely misogynistic. And this is all coming from someone who used to be obsessed with it in fics back when I was a repressed teen.

God, the thought that women have to "get it right" and lose their virginity to the "correct" guy or else she's less valuable is so weird.

And there is nothing wrong with being a virgin. But y'all gotta stop treating it like a requirement.

Ashley fucks. And good for her.

what i find weird is that people chalk up ashley's initial nervousness around leon to being a virgin and not, you know

the fact that she's a kidnapped woman alone in a foreign country surrounded by people who want to hurt her, and leon is a violent man who's very cold and short-tempered at the start of the game.

leon would scare the shit out of me if i was in ashley's position. he'd probably have to throw me over his shoulder and physically carry me out of the church, because i'd meet him and go "... you know what i think i'll take my chances in here actually, thanks."

ashley's also in a social position where she's probably never had to charm anyone before in her life. she's a rich girl with a cute face, a small waist, and giant tits. boyfriends probably just kind of happen, for her. leon's probably the first man ever who's treated her like a human and not a pussy-shaped ATM. of course it's going to take her a while to figure out how to interact with him. that doesn't make her a virgin. it just makes her extremely privileged.

there's this weird perception that losing your virginity suddenly makes you extremely suave and charismatic and confident, and boy is that not true. the circumstances around how you lose your virginity are really important, actually. in fact, all of your relationships help shape the person you are/become.

and just by looking at ashley and knowing how girls like her fit into american culture, chances are she's had one serious, long-term boyfriend since high school because stability and keeping up appearances are the most important thing, but any real affection between them fizzled out years ago, so they both treat the relationship more like an obligation than anything else because it really just is a status thing for them. and, yeah, being with someone that long -- you end up sleeping with them. and a relationship like that still leaves her with a restricted worldview and a shortage of romantic experience, even despite the loss of her virginity.

just some food for thought.

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Are u short by any chance?

i am a disembodied voice actually

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@ the anon who sent me a twitter link that they said they didn't expect me to respond to but the tweet made them laugh

the tweet is gone, and when i went digging, i found that the person got death threats over it so uh

i guess i'll just use this as an opportunity to make a blanket statement of:

guys please don't send me tweets that aren't fanart.

i don't participate in retwt for a reason. whatever is being said over there, i don't wanna know. i don't wanna know. i don't wanna know. please do not force me to know. thank u.

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I only sent the first two asks about Ashley and her virginity. The others aren't from me I swear. Btw I wanted to ask if there's anything bothering you about my asks on Rufus. I thought you liked that character so I sent some asks about him before the ones on Ashley but since you seem not to respond I wanted to know if I made a mistake in them. If so I'm sorry.

why do you guys do this shit

every single time someone asks me this the answer is always the same:

"i didn't get any asks like this what are u talking about"

my inbox on this blog is notoriously bugged and shitty, and every time i've reached out to tumblr support for help, the response has been "ehhhh i've got better things to do than fix this rn."

the last unanswered rufus ask i got was days ago and it was someone who wanted to complain about his character design, and as someone who's been playing final fantasy for almost 30 years, i cannot describe to you in words how tired i am of "lmao FF character design" discourse, especially after final fantasy x.

like, after ffx, it all sounds the goddamn same to me. yes i know i get it tetsuya nomura designed a character who was 20% tits and 80% belts yes it's ridiculous i get it jesus christ.

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She's a virgin, obviously.

see this is the normal person's version of the ask that the other anon sent LMAO

#i also disagree BUT #i respect ur opinion

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Been thinking deeply how much weight Leon can lift, either people or in the gym

Ashley looks light for him to just carry around

Deep thoughts and Leon’s biceps

considering his build, age, and fitness level, he should be bench pressing over 300lbs easily.

just some more food for ur thoughts anon

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It is quite obvious that Ashley is still just a girl, a virgin and inexperienced. She doesn’t even know how to flirt, that is, she does it ineptly and childishly naively and I like it, and also her reaction to Leon, it’s as if the girl was waiting for a prince and fell in love for the first time in her life, from her behavior it’s clear that this is her first time, so there is no doubt that she is a virgin, especially considering the fact that she is the daughter of the president.

#do you realize how weird and fetishy this sounds or nah