To me personally malistaire is the funniest and most pathetic villain wizard101 has ever had AND I MEAN THAT SINCERELY!!! Between doomed children who have been manipulated, groomed, and isolated into becoming products of their environments, someone scorned who has been punished unfairly by having your biological heart torn out your chest and turning your children and all of reality against you to satiate their own ego, a nonhuman entity so powerful and so clueless they unintentionally threaten the lives of everyone around them, Malistaire FELL DOWN BRO. Like yeah you're bitchless now. You and me both. Get in line. Everyone in this room is bitchless. We are ALL living that ✨💅🏾💃🕺 Single Life™. You are a middle-aged man. Cope
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I need to reread the comics again to have specific arguments/evidence for this, but like
I feel a bit like I could've been sympathetic to the way other Cybertronian colonies view Cybertron, if it weren't for the fact that at least several of them (as in, ones that get notable dialogue/screen time) are so low-key self-righteous?
Like, idk... there's a lot of criticism of Cybertronians because they're so "warlike" and how their obsession with violence and vengeance is just dragging the whole galaxy down with them, but uh. The Autobot-Decepticon war was basically a product of societal ills bubbling over for like 6 million years beforehand and then finally boiling over into a 4 million year war that lasted as long as it did because the people involved had immense social/psychological trauma from being "raised" in an oppressive society.
So when the colonists come in being all 'omg you people are so violent and uncivilized why don't you just like, stop fighting' it kind of pissed me off a little bit as a reader/person like. Idk the colonists really came into this society of people full of massive amounts of trauma where even before the war society was super oppressive and no one has any experience of living "normal" lives unaffected by violence and bigotry. And the colonists were like "ummm wow why don't you guys just??? stop fighting???." Like idk it wasn't EVERY SINGLE MOMENT, in fact I think that when it was played for laughs it's quite a funny "fridge horror" type element. It was just annoying because like.... IDK???? It's just really annoying to watch a bunch of people who lived relatively sheltered lives on their own planets come to a different planet full of traumatized people and be like "omg why are you people so fucked up" IDK BRO MAYBE BECAUSE THEIR SOCIETY WAS OPPRESSIVE AND THEY LIVED THROUGH A LIFELONG WAR???
It also doesn't help that the colonies were literally founded based on imperialism and conquest so like, it's fucking rich to hear colonists scolding Cybertronians for their violence ruining the whole galaxy while literally sitting on planets that their Primes colonized from others. The hypocrisy of this is briefly mentioned in Unicron (literally the FINAL STORY OF THE SERIES) but like, that's basically the only time Cybertronian characters are given a reprieve of sympathy from other characters in universe and it's so tiresome.
I've talked to other people who didn't like the colonists and thought they basically (narratively speaking) existed just to shit on the existing characters, and it's actually really easy for me to sympathize with/outright agree with that assessment of the story considering how much of exRID/OP seems to be preoccupied with "Cybertron/the Primes/Optimus sucks" with very few reprieves for anything positive happening and even fewer chances for characters to get to explain themselves and experience a little bit of justice? Like, as the audience, it's just very frustrating to see the characters you spent hundreds of issues keeping up with get shit on by a bunch of "literally-who"s and then not really get a chance to ever defend themselves, either by literally defending themselves in conversation or having some sort of narrative thing happening that vindicates them at least symbolically
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I've worked on this for literal hours instead of my graduation cards because I would do anything for Aubrey Omori. Anyways
HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUBREY OMORI!!!
I spent WAY too much time on this which. Ya know. Tracks when it comes to me because... well. Yeah.
Anyways I adore her so so much. She's amazing. She is literally amazing I would say so much more if I wasn't trying to be nORMAL
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'omg mikes character used to be so important and now hes barely relevant to the plot :('
i hate to tell you this but.. its a byler thing again
in s1 and 2, mike is one of the most important characters because his motivations rely entirely on his care for will. like s1, everything mike does is to help find will. the reason he meets el. the reason he keeps her around instead of sending her back to 'pennhurst or wherever shes from', the reason hes around for plot happenings. Literally everything is bc of will.
s2, again mike is a main character bc he flat out Refuses to be apart from will for more than like 2 seconds. this man is down bad. hes like 'oh nooo will hasnt been in school and i am for some inexplicable (gay) reason so much more worried than my other friends so im gonna show up to his house and refuse to leave.' and this means hes around for plot stuff (also earlier s2 mike relevant to plot stuff is bc him and will are just the bestiest of bropals so will tells him more stuff than he tells anyone else, Including His Own Mother)
the reason mike is a main character in early seasons. the reason hes relevant to plot. the reason he actively Does Shit is because his main motivator is will. his character motivations are literally 'will is in trouble i will immediately drop everything and put my whole wheelussy into helping this man'
then we see the drop off of relevance in s3 and 4. Why?? because will isnt the driving force of plot anymore. will is also now more of a side character. mike is less involved bc will is less involved u literally cant prove me wrong im so correct and right about everything all the time.
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Shuffle your favorite playlist and post the first five songs that come up. Then copy/paste this ask to your favorite mutuals. 💌💜 >:>
ty!! :3
Mask of My Own Face - Lemon Demon
Telephone - Lady Gaga
People I Don't Like - Upsahl
Deceptacon - Le Tigre
Don't Threaten Me With a Good Time - Panic! At The Disco
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would you share an excerpt from the soup symbolism novel? i'd really like to read it
not soup related per se but definitely my favorite line so far:
"He laughed, to his own disbelief. He was just a potato in a guillotine now, wasn't he?"
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