#(not that i can aspire to have the reflections of djss or neon j but like goals am i right?)

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Hot take: the Ben 10 fandom and the NSR fandom are pretty much complete inverses of each other when it comes to what kinds of characters they simp for.

Ben 10 has tons of sexy aliens to the point of literally featuring an entire species of buff leotard-wearing cephalopod people that you think would attract alienfuckers by the dozen, but like 80% of the fandom simps for the basic white boy and white girl.

NSR has an entire boy band of conventionally attractive anime boy robots who outright flirt with the female playable character, but like 80% of the fandom simps for the DILF cyborg war veteran with a screen for a head and the space-themed forty-something DJ with a bowling ball for a head.

The NSR fandom said 'those old men can GET IT' and fucking ran with it so hard that it's the most written about romantic relationship (going by ao3 stats) by almost 50 give or take if you're reading with an account or not- honestly? 'Round of applause, y'all really meant it, those old men CAN get it!

But I suppose it might be helped due to the more 'boss rush' style presentation of NSR, being a game centered mostly around who you fight rather than who you fight as. More time is proportionally spent in the media (game in this case) actually focusing on characters like DJ Subatomic Supernova - representation of the self-centered DJ - and Neon J - representation of boybands and specifically as the manager - and getting a comparably significant amount of focus; space themed object head has an ego so dense it LITERALLY causes a singularity (and causes spaghettification) and war veteran cyborg ordering around troops with protocols.

With Ben 10 god I fucking wished more people simped for Tetrax, bestie is just such a cool fucking character let alone how he was introduced and thus executed, but as a show with MANY iterations we kinda need to have a central cast (that gets narrowed down eventually into a central character). Whoever wears the Omnitrix - the one main driving force of the series - is essentially forever a main character, and that character just so happens to be Ben Tennyson after one alien device did what it did.

Despite it's main focus BEING the aliens that Ben turns into - in addition to being a universe with an active alien presence - it never particularly set out to be more than anything other than a sci-fi alien flavoured action story, centered around a human boy (who probably gets his egg completely shattered only to crack an entire coop of eggs in the aftershock) walking only a few steps in other species' shoes. It was only rather late that the actual extraterrestrial exploration of the series really came around, at least in full force (SoTO my beloved 😫). Kinda hard for EVERYONE to simp for your favourite side character when you've got like... seasons worth of a mostly human main cast, lmao-

#ask #anonymous #no straight roads #nsr #ben 10 #i like babygirling old men because it seems like i'm investing (even if it's less my own relationships and more my own reflection) #(not that i can aspire to have the reflections of djss or neon j but like goals am i right?) #i am most certainly an example of the 20% of ben 10 fans to rotate like a microwave side characters #i mean for crying out loud i ship the andromeda 5 and that's 5 whole different alien species lmao #probably also a difference in audiences too lmao ben 10's been here for a WHILE and nsr's only been like 3 years? #i don't hear many kids talk about nsr (like kid kids- which on tumblr may also just be a narrow perspective) #not sure how a kid might access nsr without a parent going 'oh this game looks nice' and getting it for them #while ben 10 was throughout it's runs very much a kid's show #ya it had things an adult could enjoy but predominantly it ran on tv back in the day- easy access media for a kid #you can grow up with ben 10- nsr is nsr and came out in 2020 and isn't the type to need or warrant a sequel #idk why this answer became a study on media and audiences lmao this was probably meant to be a shitpost #and by probably i mean pretty much guaranteed i'm just not committing to absolutes in the off-chance i'm wrong lmao #have a ramble: on the house