#but basically a shitty power hungry monster vs a shitty power hungry monster

[deliciouspirateangel]

I kind of wanna know but also DON’T wanna know so don’t tell me. What peoples opinions of Mal vs Addison are??

Like they obviously have polar opposite attitudes which is fine bc they grew up in polar opposite situations

But Addison grew up incredibly privileged and basically her only struggle was hiding her natural hair color. And she didn’t even know what that meant for her so ?? it’s literally just based on optics. She’s oppressed for being too blonde. Literally everyone - humans, zombies, wolves, AND aliens - love her and think she’s cool. And her conflict all the way to the third movie is feeling like she doesn’t belong when she seems to fit in wherever she goes. My sister compared it to Mamma Mia like the whole “learning who you are has to come from within YOU, it doesn’t come from who you’re related to” but that’s clearly not the direction the film decided to take

Meanwhile Mal was forced to grow up on this shitty little island of villains and crime and poverty all bc some man in a castle hated her parents. And she only managed to escape bc some little prince made it his pet project to save the kids four at a time and decided to send her a golden ticket to Auradon. And the fans hate her bc she doesn’t assimilate to castle life right away

When you look at Mal vs Addison’s response to leadership roles it’s the polar opposite again, and I think Mal’s is so much more realistic and relatable. She’s suddenly in the spotlight in a way she never wanted, just bc of who she’s dating. She suddenly has to be ready to be a ruler when she’s still in the process of adjusting to her new life. People are thrusting all these huge life changing decisions on her and expecting her to make calls that affect the entire kingdom which is totally unfair and not her fault for feeling pressured to make certain decisions lol but it’s whatever

Meanwhile every time a new group of Halloween monsters rolls into town, Addison’s ready to slap on a new Party City wig and declare herself their leader. The whole “you guys seem to be doing fine on your own but my relative was a member of this group so I guess I’ll be your leader” Elsa Daenerys white hair white savior unchecked privilege of it all

But also Mal is demonized by the fandom for being power hungry all bc she didn’t want to turn her back on her people or the Isle where she spent 16/18 years of her life :| Make it make sense

#descendants #disney descendants #mal descendants #zombies #disney zombies #anti addison wells #addison wells #anti zombies #those movies are not good lmao #i mean descendants are also bad but #idk man #nothing is that bad #dcoms #my thoughts #why do i have to write an essay about a couple of dumb disney channel movie franchises?? dont ask me #angel watches stuff #angel watches dcoms

[beautifulsexymuses]

Hey if you wanna read me rambling about kaminari then here you go 

I would say Kaminari is one of the most openly expressive and emotional people in his class. He has no problem showing when he’s angry, happy, sad, etc but they tend to stay in the realm of shallow reactions. When someone is mean he gets angry or dejected but it doesn’t seem to last long or have a lasting impression on him.

Each character arc tends to have an emotional barrier, there is an issue that the character needs to come to terms with and not only are they fighting a mental battle but a physical battle as well. Todoroki is fighting Deku in the arena but he’s also fighting that internal abuse, he’s confronting it for the first time and pushing past it. When he used his fire he has pushed past that mental/emotional wall and is bettering himself.

Iida is fighting Stain but in that time he’s waging a war internally, a war about what is right and wrong. It’s the struggle of something that is wrong but right vs something that is right but wrong. Avenging his brother seems right, but it is inherently wrong. Stain’s values seem wrong but are technically right. Heroes should be accountable, heroes should take their jobs seriously and serve rather than use it to serve themselves.

Kirishima vs Rappa (Spoilers for non-manga readers) This is a battle of worth, Kirishima doesn’t see himself or his strength as having any value. He makes comments on it since the beginning and it’s Deku who is the one who to say no, it’s like a pro heroes. In the fight Kirishima needs to step up and do something and he has to push past that feeling of being incapable of helping. He regrets what he did in middle school and it’s trauma that he has to overcome.

In that fight he realizes he is capable of more, his quirk is capable of more and he is worthy of the title of hero.

Momo vs Aizawa, now, for her I do hope we get more of her and more of an arc but this battle was really good for her. This is a battle of confidence and it takes the form of Aizawa. Honestly, what zaps a person’s confidence more than having their quirk taken away? She needs to find the confidence in herself, her own mind and abilities and Todoroki helps her remember that she is a very capable woman. With that reminder she puts the plan together and they are able to take on Aizawa and win. From then on she is more confident and we see in the 1-A vs 1-B arc that she has the confidence and if she trains more she’ll be able to execute bigger and badder things. She just overdid it and ended up tiring herself out.

Now, what does all this have to do with Kaminari?

WELL I’M GLAD YOU ASKED!

Kaminari doesn’t seem to display any deep emotional issues. It might be he’s too dumb to be sad, ignorance is bliss after all but I’m hoping that’s not the case. I’m thinking more of a dissociation issue.

When Kaminari loses he never seems to take it to heart, he doesn’t seem to concentrate on it. He’s not embarrassed on his mistakes or looking bad which is kind of weird. In the tournament he lost really easily, with his midterm exam he got 20th and failed the practical. Now, it can be noted that Mina who was in the same boat didn’t seem too upset either, we didn’t see her having a moment of insecurity or doubt. It can be equated that they’re too dumb and cute to feel bad about their failures. Which in all honesty, good for them. They are strong.

They got upset in the moment but we don’t see them reflecting and ruminating on their failures. Obivously the upcomming arc was not about Mina and Kaminari so they were pushed to the background as usual.

In any case if there was an arc for Kaminari I think it would have to do with his emotional distance, we don’t see him having any in depth heroic reasoning for becoming a hero. It could be he’s only being a hero to impress girls. Kirishima’s original concept had his reason for joining UA to impress a girl but since his reason has changed that concept might have been pushed to Kaminari. We haven’t heard him from Kaminari though.

All we know is that he’s a friendly guy and helps connect the class together. When they were describing Kaminari there was a panel that said he has a mouth that bridges gaps. He basically talks to people like they’re his best friend. That’s why he is fine with telling off Bakugo because idk about you but my bestie calls me a dumb bitch from time to time and I aint even mad about it lolol

He’s also open with compliments and what he feels, he says what he thinks and he does bridge those gaps pretty easily which is shown by the tiny tid bits between him and Bakugo. Kaminari straight up called his personality shit and Bakugo yelled at him but nothing more happened. The whole class saw that so everyone could kind of see that Bakugo is angry and crazy but he’s not completely bonkers and purely malice.

Bakugo told Kaminari about the use of his gauntlets which came in handy during the license exam arc. It’s hinted at that Bakugo told Kaminari he took music classes when Kaminari brought up that information when they were trying to make the band.

Basically, what I’m saying is Kaminari makes friends with everyone and see’s everyone in his class as his friends and treats them as such. He values them more than himself, he puts himself at a disadvantage and then puts himself in danger. So when it comes to fighting he seems fine with self sacrifice, when he was with Momo and Jirou and he decided to use full force he knew he’d go wheey mode. He knew that he would fry his brain but when he attacked he just yelled out how he wouldn’t hurt his friends. He was so excited and happy he could use his power despite what it’d do to him and save his friends.

He’s such a good boy.

Anyways! So with the recent chapter we have scene Kaminari does reflect on his ranking in the class when he talked about how now he doesn’t have anything that sets him above Todoroki and Bakugo now that they got their license. He doesn’t show any sadness, he’s actually quite nonchalant about it.

It can be hinted that he doesn’t allow himself to become emotionally invested in his own person. He doesn’t allow himself to feel to deeply about his failures or himself. Can’t be hurt if you don’t care kind of mentality. Or rather, can’t over think something if you don’t think at all.

I think if Kaminari had an arc it would force him to become present in himself, to think about what he wants and to take it seriously. He’ll face the physical form of his dissociation and the fight where he must look inside and figure out what kind of person and hero he’s going to be.

I’m hoping that he pretends to join the other side though and is a traitor but to the enemy. That’d be sweet.

#ooc #mun talks about her son Kaminari way too long #I forgot to add the endeavor fight #but basically a shitty power hungry monster vs a shitty power hungry monster #endeavor realizing being an abusive fuck aint it chief

[oodlyenough]

aight... here’s a pretty long yet tip-of-the-iceberg collection on my overall thoughts on bl3 now that i’ve finished the damn thing, every main mission & every sidequest (dynasty dash don’t interact). 

obviously mega spoilers

the good

aside from that one infuriating difficulty spike when i arrived on promethea, i had a lot of fun playing. i found the gameplay a lot smoother than the others in the series (as it should be), i liked being able to climb stuff, i liked having an easy mode tbh!!

i really liked playing amara and i like the flexibility of action skills and being able to swap on the go without having to respec. the brawl tree ended up being very well suited to my type of play, it hindered me only during boss fights and even then at least i could switch to phasecast y’know

i had a lot of big fears about what this game would do and it managed to not do anything that makes me want to, like, burn and salt the earth, so that’s a win

i thought it was pretty funny! or at least on par with the other main games, which always kind of ride the line between funny and obnoxious and sometimes misstep

i enjoyed a lot of the cast, both new characters and characters who were returning but who i had no particular feelings about before, hammerlock, zer0 and ellie as particular examples

hammerlock and wainwright were cute af and it’s nice to see a gay couple in a triple-a game 

thought the twins were fun and funny af i liked them. because fandom is Like That i was a little exhausted by troy before he even showed up but even then, like, idk i liked them as a duo and i liked the break from jack honestly 

a lot of the new gun quirks were fun. i’m not like a big... gun person... but i found some cool ones i enjoyed playing with. 

loved getting to see different planets, it was a nice break from pandora all the time. and skywell was super fun! love the low-grav playfulness from TPS without the infuriating oz kit nonsense

the little quality of life improvements from previous games were great, like fast travel from anywhere, auto-refilling ammo, etc

some of the side quests were really fun. i liked the ratch quest for rhys, the birthday party quest for mordecai, the claptrap dancing quest was sweet, the buff movie buff quest was fun, the quest where i killed grandpappy 2 seconds in and got a reward was funny as hell esp because i drove off a cliff by accident, etc

lots of people had really bad glitches and stuff but... honestly can’t relate the game ran very well for me. advantages to not marathoning it before they’ve released their first couple patches, i guess, lol 

the less good

i played a solo amara and there are some bosses that seem like they would’ve been pure hell to do alone... i was lucky and able to phone a friend for a lifeline in those scenarios (shoutout to @heavybreathingcatt and @valoscope) but if i couldn’t do that idk i would’ve just broken my controller in rage i guess lmao 

why is resurrecting each other so hard? i don’t think i’ve ever done it successfully, because it takes too long and more importantly bc while i’m doing it some enemy will just toss a grenade or punch me and i get knocked away from the ally, rendering it useless

rest in peace maya, the best res AI in the whole damn game, got me through the rampager fight her damn self

there were a lot of characters and themes and ideas that i liked in theory more than in practice... because in practice they felt like a first draft. very often i felt like i liked a thing, and then on reflection thought about nine hundred ways it could’ve been better, deeper, more emotionally resonant, more developed, whatever. 

the angel stuff was kinda nice but... also... my longest deepest sigh ever @ Poor Sad Jack Some People Terrorize Entire Planets And Abuse Their Daughters To Cope With Their Fridged Wife

like the siren lore... wish i coulda heard it without having to backtrack across every map post-game

while i found the game generally pretty funny,  almost all the emotional scenes fell completely flat for me and there were a number of scenes that SHOULD have been emotional that just were not 

for eg i am actually not upset about maya or lilith dying (or turning into the moon as it were) -- i am ok with those beats for those characters, especially lilith getting a heroic sendoff. however... both of those scenes could’ve been more impactful than they were. maya’s i think was better than lilith’s, but both of them felt flatter, either in the moment or in the aftermath, than those characters deserved. 

related: NPCs reacting to major events is fun. i liked to do the tour and check in with all my buds to get their couple custom lines after a big plot thing happened. HOWEVER... those lines are obviously timed which is *mostly* fine but in some cases really, really weird? the lines about maya should stay in rotation for a lot longer. ava shouldn’t go back to LOL LET’S STEAL two seconds after maya’s gone. i missed zer0′s maya lines entirely bc i didn’t track down zer0 on time lol. stuff like that 

the bad

i miss my girls :( we really did keep only the white men huh

the last act felt severely underbaked. i have to wonder how many rewrites this game went through, and how much the back end was slapped together last minute, or cobbled together from various drafts. a lot of this felt very first or second draft, where the characters and themes are *there* but not refined at all, or they contradict each other. the family theme that goes basically nowhere and says nothing. the way the story handles atlas vs the way the story handles jakobs vs the way the story handles corporations writ large. 

for the twins -- lack of proper emotional resonance or development for them is one of the biggest failures imo, because i think they WERE very enjoyable villains and the core concept of like... evil video game streamers is honestly on-brand and funny af for the franchise... but as soon as troy died everything went downhill? tyreen’s non-reaction to her brother dying isn’t even a reaction, it’s not even “tyreen doesn’t care she’s evil lol” which would’ve been a boring direction to take anyway) it’s just.... “we barely wrote a response don’t worry about it”. her endgame is to be a big monster because... she’s ... fame hungry? huh? her motivation fell apart.w whether they went with “troy and tyreen are shitty people who get caught up in a power struggle but ultimately love each other” OR “troy and tyreen are shitty people who turn against each other in individual bids for power” could both have been interesting stories but they did neither. 

i’m def missing some echos on the twins which brings me to another thing i hate although it’s endemic to the series and not to bl3 specifically -- hiding important lore and characterization in random echos in random places on the map without even an indication of how many there are total, how many you’ve collected, where to find them... frustrating as hell. a lot of those echos are some of my favourite material in the game! at LEAST tell me “1 of 5 echos on this map” if you don’t wanna tell me where they are! why is major lore like the twins’ backstories hidden?????? 

and bc i haven’t heard them i don’t know if it’s fandom doing what fandom always does, or if it really is the game implying tyreen is The Evil Mastermind and troy is poor manipulated brother, but either way fuck that entire noise lmao of course the women of colour in the series are just Born Evil but jack and troy and whoever else are just Sad :( fuck off actually 

typhon... sucks... what an irritating character. irritating to retcon him in as The First Vault Hunter, irritating to have him talk about shit and sex all the time, irritating to have every established NPC be like oh wow my HERO typhon deleon what a HERO i LOVE him, irritating that we skate over his parenting failures, irritating that he has a fridged beloved wife, ESPECIALLY irritating he gets a memorial sidequest and maya didn’t . just. bad.

aurelia is evil now cause reasons... bad... 

vaughn also bad lmao i can’t believe they made amara yell “blood feud”... disgusting... 

the playable had no role in the story. they’re just a fly on the wall in every cut scene. this is whack in general, and a crit i can apply to all of the main borderlands games, however it is extremely jarring to play amara in a siren-heavy game and have no one acknowledge it. 

OVERALL... I guess like a B-? Maybe a B. I had fun playing it and I’m still having fun running around in Mayhem Mode and I am def looking forward to the DLCs. Gameplay is great. But while I had hoped this installment would take the storytelling of the main games a step further, it actually felt like a step back in virtually every respect. 

#bl3 spoilers #borderlands 3 #borderlands