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shadowtraveled · 2 months

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"mithrun is the only real monsterfucker in dungeon meshi" is objectively the funniest bit you can get out of his everything, but in all seriousness i think his attraction to his love interest is deliberately overstated—and that makes sense, because romantic jealousy is a classic and digestible motive, which is explicitly what kabru was aiming for in condensing mithrun's backstory, and also because until chapter 94, mithrun wasn't willing to admit to the true nature of his desires.

but because romantic envy is both classic and digestible, it probably isn’t a unique enough or complicated enough desire to tempt a demon’s appetite. mithrun’s wish, as far as we can figure from kabru’s reduced retelling, was to have a life in which he had never become one of the canaries, and that carries like 3857 implications and desires within it. that’s delicious. his love interest acts as sort of a red herring to his motivation for making it, though. (side note: i'm saying "love interest" here because, keeping in mind that i barely speak japanese on a good day anymore, "想い人" is something i'd usually take as just kind of an old-fashioned and romantic way to refer to a lover, but in context i wonder if both the connotation of yearning and the vagueness are intentional, and i think this phrasing gets those aspects of it more effectively. anyway.)

mithrun considered his love interest to be untrustworthy. there was a minute where i thought that comment might be about a similar-looking elf (yugin, one of his squad members), but comparing the two…

the "sketchy" arrow is definitely referring to the elf we know as his love interest—the bangs go toward her right, she only has the one forehead ornament, and, most notably, her ears aren't notched.

every time she’s given a full-body depiction in his dungeon, she’s drawn as a chimera, with the body of a snake from the waist down. (side note: the “what if a dungeon has chimeras before reaching level 4?”/“then the dungeon lord is unstable” exchange just being mithrun grilling his past self alive is so funny. he’s so. but anyway) there are a couple things about this.

first, the snake part of the chimera appears to be modeled after some species of coral snake mimic

which, in the biology-for-fun manga, i… doubt is a coincidence, especially with the added context of the “untrustworthy” comment. the dungeon’s conjured illusion of mithrun’s love interest was a harmless copycat of a venomous original. for whatever reason, he felt this person was a threat and made up a "safe" version of her to be in a relationship with, and while it’s definitely possible to be attracted to or even love someone you find to be toxic and/or intimidating, when you take that into consideration alongside the configuration of her body, you get some interesting implications.

which brings us to our second point: if we assume that mithrun was not in fact fucking a snake, then sexual attraction, at least, was so far removed from his idea of a relationship with this person that he did not even bother to keep her dungeon copy human enough to maintain the illusion of the option of a sexual relationship. this is somewhat echoed in the depictions of their interactions, which also imply a frankly unexpected romantic distance. she kisses his cheek and he doesn't seem to react; she's at the edge of a narrow bed with only one set of pillows, on top of his blankets while he's underneath them.

the kiss is particularly interesting because it seems to contrast the text. kabru's narration tells us this was everything mithrun could have asked for, but mithrun is there looking unreadable to pensive, likely because this is right before the panel that makes it clear things in the dungeon are beginning to go wrong.

walking through this backwards for a minute, we have the physical barrier of his bedding and the spatial separation inherent in a bed made for one person, the emotional barrier of his mounting anxiety getting in the way of his ability to enjoy the affection he sought, and... the snake, which historically carries the connotation of temptation, yes, but also mistrust, barring physical intimacy. okay. ok. if a dungeon reflects the mentality of its lord, all of this might suggest that mithrun was not able to have any real desire for a relationship with this person. his unwillingness to be vulnerable or let another person in was insurmountable. but in that case, why was she such a focal point that she remained to the end, after his dungeon had stopped creating iterations of his friends to come and visit him? why would he get so upset over her meeting with his brother that he became lord of a dungeon about it?

well. mithrun's brother was also interested in her, probably genuinely. and mithrun had to win.

you have an older brother who your parents completely ignore, probably in part because he is chronically ill/disabled and almost definitely in part because he received a ton of recessive traits that resulted in rumors that he was an illegitimate child. you are aware, most likely because those same parents fucking told you, that you actually are an illegitimate child. but they keep you around because you had the good fortune of looking just like your mother. what can that possibly teach you but that you, like your brother, are disposable?

it's utterly unsurprising that mithrun, under these circumstances, developed a pathological need to be better than everyone around him. people don't keep you otherwise. i'd argue this is also why he says he looked down on everyone he knew while milsiril claims his dungeon reeked of feelings of inferiority—he sought out people's worst traits and prioritized them in his mind to protect his already extremely fragile sense of self-worth, and all the while he tried to be as likable and high-performing as he possibly could be. his parents disposed of him anyway, but even then he tried to keep up the performance. he was kind to everyone. he never once lost to a dungeon.

when he saw his "love interest" meeting up with his brother, what he saw was himself being replaced by a person his parents had always treated as worthless, and if that was what they thought of the child they'd kept, what value could anyone possibly see in the bastard they'd given away to die? mithrun and kabru tell the story like he wanted to win this unnamed elf's heart, but it was never about being with her. it was about cementing his worth, proving that he didn't deserve to be thrown away.

and so it's particularly cruel that his demon discarded him, too. but maybe it's also particularly gentle that, in the end, there was someone who refused to even consider giving up on him.

kui laid it out in three panels better than i could hope to.

yeah. it's love. you wanted to be loved, even when the only way you were able to understand it was through the desire to be wanted, and you wanted that so badly that the idea of being consumed felt like the promise of finally mattering to someone.

#dungeon meshi spoilers #mithrun #dungeon meshi #this has been rotating for a while but i wanted to check my evidence before getting into it thanks user angelspenance for posting that meme #half of this is just the text and the other half i'm sure has been said before but it's making my brain [radio static] so here this is #someone did for sure mention this but i do find it very cute that in his fucked up conjured world meant to portray his ideal reality #his teammates came to visit him. like part of the fantasy was then explicitly that they cared about him and were his friends. even though #he says he tried to see the worst in them.#hm it does feel important to note that i do also believe 100% in mithrun suicidality--his desire to be eaten does seem to focus a lot on #wanting it to be Over. wanting not to be left incomplete and empty anymore.#but that loops back around a bit to the hole in your heart that appears when you feel unloved. it's many things and the same thing at once #snakes #long post #severe problems #meshy

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thesevenwondersofawitch · 4 months

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The Brothers Sun e7

Damn, that was so clever having people kill the Boxers, June really took her job to heart, good for her

I love that the mom also brought tea😂

"The head of the Boxers must be so pissed right now." Man is panicking😂

"My time in the shadow is over."

"Shit, you go, girl! Hey what's yours." Good job TK, being a support dude

"Or or don't go, Girl!" The panic in Bruce's tone😂

The way the mom is literally asking her son who's given everything for her, to support her in her quest to become head of all crime. Wow. And he is gonna do it cause he's a good son 🥺

They're making a seating chart 😂

I like to think the goggly eye is a reference to Everything Everywhere All At Once

I too would have bad blood if someone lost my pet

TK asking Bruce to put in a good word with his family 😂

Yeah, TK is definitely not a good gangster 😂

Aw, the Mama's face🥺

Oooof, Bruce has snapped, and I can't blame him🥺

Aw, the way the mom recognizes that Bruce is a good friend for trying to keep TK away from everything, and how he'd rather his friend hate him than be put further in danger 🥺😭(but what if TK goes to the bad side?)

That's got to be hard for Charles to see how much his mom is protective of Bruce, but not of him🥺

Charles telling him mom he wants to stay, and her saying that a bakery is a great way to launder money😭 I WAS SO SCARED SHE WAS GONNA DENY HIM THE HAPPINESS

Hey who turned out the lights?

IS IT THE GHOSTS

Nope it's just Charles's friends who aren't siblings at all😭😂

OH SHIT THE DAD IS THERE?

Oh shit. Xing, seriously?! You ASSHOLE!

IS THE NECKLACE POISONED

She's deeply upset by him🥺

Oh shit, the dad got Bruce his dream car👀

Yeah, this isn't good at all

Aw Alexis is in danger

I think the Dad is gonna try to kill the mom👀

Nooooo Charles doesn't want to be the head of all crime he wants to run a bakery🥺

The way the tailor pulled Bruce back😂

Oh no, I'm guessing the dad is gonna try and bring Bruce into the fold 🥺

Nooooo my boy🥺 he looks as if he is about the burst into tears

Oh shit, the mom saying that the dad can't have both of them🥺

Bruce, listen to your mama

The way Bruce asked if Charles would prefer to watch the cooking channel🥺

Charles being totally different because of peer pressure sucks(as a younger sibling I totally get Bruce)

You may be his son, Charles, but you're also your mother's son

The way Bruce is begging his mom and brother to see the truth and do what it is they want, not what is expected of them.

Frankly, if I was Bruce, I'd run away and fake my death, then when the dust settles and hopefully the mom and brother have fixed things, I'd reappear

The way she admitted to manipulating Bruce to his face is so hard, because she's hurting him and I think she knows it,

THE BASTARD DARED TO BRING UP HOW SHE LEFT HER ONLY SISTER TO DIE ALONE? IT WAS HIS FAULT

"The only purpose you were serving was me." FUCK YOU

He's definitely a villain, he didn't wash his hands and then touched her face😳🫣

She's definitely doing more than getting her hair done😂

Grace is pissed

The way Bruce didn't even get the title right for dragon head😂

Bruce is literally the only one who is willing to do anything for his family without his pride getting in the way

Oooooooooooo they shook hands it's a official 👀

Bruce trying to get Charles to go get churros instead😭

Charles' phone is in the other jacket (what if Bruce accidentally takes that one)😂

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww the way Charles is saying he'll send his brother money so he can live his dreams 😭😭😭

The good looks so tasty

All the ghosts have arrived

That's a good question, where IS Charles

Oh he's in the kitchen 😂

Poor Bruce is being haunted by his actions when watching the great British Bake off of 😂

I wonder who he's calling

I'm willing to bet that at least some if not all of the servers are part of the Boxers

Oh shit, Bruce is wearing the jacket with Charles' phone😂

Aw, he called June😂 love how she's happy to go as long as she gets to kill Bruce's girlfriend 😂

Awwww it's also because they're all the family she has left🥺

The way that TK sat in front of the car😂

Why did he get in sideways??😂

Ouch, I love that June just pushed him off😂

The way Charles just noticed Bruce and the others behind a fish tank😂

I don't think that the dad is actually going to put Charles up for the role of head dragon

I feel like the mom is gonna make a grand entrance

Oh, he did put his son forward but I don't think this is gonna end well

Fuck yeah I called it! THE MOM JUST MADE A GRAND ENTRANCE FUCK YEAH

Also, bad bad bad nec

HA THE ONE GUY WANTS TO HEAR WHAT SHE HAS TO SAY LOVE THAT!

FUCK YEAH HE GAVE HER HONORARY MEMBERSHIP!

"Self centered dinosaur"😂 love that

Oh shit, tea leaf story😂

Oh shit IT'S A BOMB

The way everyone is just awkwardly standing

The way that Bruce just ran into the room and got the bomb😂 tripping as he ran away with the cart😂

Oh damn RIP to those FBI guys

It's a shootout!

Damn it Grace killed someone

The way that Xing charged at the guy who killed Blood Boots, that was some swift and brutal justice right there

Charles' friend did the move from his favorite movie and got killed, at least he loved him s dream 😂

The way the mom is getting Bruce out of there

Oh no, the dad now has a gun, and I seriously worry he's gonna kill Mama Sun

I love June

Damn, a fishhook is a big ouchy🥺

I love that TK took the FBI guy down 😂

Charles looking at the chair with a smile😂 he looks like Christmas cake early

Oh police dude, you naive man,of course he survived. He's Charles fucking Sun

Fuck no, Charles don't listen to your dad, don't kill your brother🥺😭

#TheSevenWondersOfAWitch watches #the brothers sun #brothers sun #Netflix the Brothers sun #Charles sun #mama sun #bruce sun #Michelle Yeoh

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my-reality-my-rules · 1 year

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Ok, can you tell me details of tour warring state shift? I ask this becauae Ibwanrnto shift for that. How is Madara and Izuna like? And The insides and family dynamics of the Uchihas? Maybe Hashirama and Mito If you interacted with them? And any other curiosity of that time period?

[thanks for this ask!]

alright, disclaimer first: my warring states DR might not exactly be the best thing to freely talk about, especially with what's currently happening on other platforms regarding shifting.

there's a lot of things regarding this era in general that would be looked down upon—and i won't be making excuses for not scripting them out, because i wanted the full experience of shifting to naruto. i just wanted to put that out there.

so, with that out of the way, let's talk about my DR itself.

[you can also find a few more detailed explanations in a google doc i keep; some of my other shenanigans are written there].

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(1) MADARA AND IZUNA

i have to admit that, while I'm generally fine with Madara, i have some mixed thoughts on Izuna. overall, they're both not bad as family. i would go so far as to say that the elder is one of my closest friends, surpassed only by Hikaku. he's kind, and very indulgent with my whims. Madara likes to look out for everyone even when they don't want nor need it, is a bit obsessed with taking his duties seriously, and likely suffers from some form of burnout. thinking of him does make a bit sad, though. Tajima's still alive, and the man's been grilling him on finding a bride. problem is, HashiMada was a thing in my DR :'DDD and I'm currently the guinea pig having to deal with Madara's sulking fits. i am, frankly, honoured to be someone he trusted with that secret, but i am not equipped to deal with romance. as for Izuna? call me any day—i am down and ready to throw hands. I'm kidding (not really). where Madara's the prime elder brother material many people would probably want, Izuna's that babied brat of a cousin who spells trouble just because he can. he's not a bad person—i don't hate him. chances are, I'd actually team up with him for both stupid arguments and serious fights if it suited me. but it doesn't make him less of a nuisance to deal with. Izuna gets very sexist and classist from time to time, and...well, xenophobic (i don't even know if that's the right word, but you get what i mean). he's also very pushy and arrogant.

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(2) MITO AND HASHIRAMA

to be honest, i have more experience dealing with Tobirama more than either Hashirama or Mito. hell, even my interactions with Tōka are more significant compared to the couple. for the most part, my contacts with the elder brother happen only because of my (pseudo?) acquaintanceship with the younger. Tobirama and I often use the same routes when travelling between smaller villages, especially on solo missions and in neutral spaces. here's the thing: while I've met and talked with Hashirama in passing, all of those times happened only during times I've scripted, but not shifted for. these are events where we're required to interact with each other. think of: the daimyō's clan rep summons, battlefield warfare, semi-joint missions, and the like. he's very open and friendly, and almost always willing to compromise—there's no doubt about that. but I'm also very wary of him. listen, he's a nice person, but I'll just be honest and say this: i don't trust him, not the slightest bit. my opinion on Mito isn't any more different. it's not that i dislike her, but neither do i actively like her. it's a neutral feeling, i suppose. I've seen her more than I do Hashirama [ok wait short break—by every god that exists, she's actually really fucking gorgeous]—but, like Hashirama, i don't know her enough to formulate any substantial thoughts about her. just that she's associated with the senju, and her clan is allied with them, so that makes her a threat by nature. i won't lie—the time I've spent with the uchiha has influenced me by a large margin. it's not going away anytime soon. and even then, a part of me already acknowledged that both aren't people i want to fully deal with. with tobirama, it's easier, because we have this mutual regard for one another. i interact with the man from time to time, and we're at least familiar. his family is a different story.

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(3) OTHER CURIOSITIES

hmm...there's actually a lot of things I'm interested in, in my DR. i suppose by 'curiosities', you meant some kind of non-canon aspect of it? I'm trying to keep this entry short, so I'll just list two things here. I'll just add more details to the DR journal later on. well, there's this group called the Soldiers in White. i wouldn't go so far as to call them vigilantes, although they skid near that boundary. they're an organisation made of clan defectors; and, as far as I'm aware, their main objective is to promote the intermingling of the average clan members with 'common blood', and it's done in an act of science. they're a pretty radical group in my DR, so they're catching a lot of controversy. there's also the bi-annual clan rep summons, announced at the daimyō's convenience. there's no set date for it. it's basically this nationwide (and by that i mean only Fire Country) gathering for all clans, and it's done so His Royal Highness gets an update on what's been going on with his vassals. i don't attend the actual bureaucratic meetings, but there's an open festival available for three days straight. it's a fun event, and I've gone to it twice while shifting.

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that's it, so far.

most of what I've written down about my Naruto DR is actually in the journal itself, so, if you're interested, just check that out. i listed some more intricate details there; like my schedule, or how I met my cousins for the first time (aka the canon characters), mission anecdotes, clan dynamics, and the like.

also, yeah, i definitely recommend shifting for the founders! i haven't seen much others going there, just the usual konoha 12. it'd be nice to chat about it with someone :DDD

#shifting #shifting realities #reality shifting #desired reality #shift #shifting shenanigans #shifting to naruto #shifting to konoha #naruto #naruto shippuden #uchiha madara #uchiha izuna #senju hashirama #senju tobirama #uzumaki mito #senju mito #Esther's shifting posts

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selfshipstuff · 2 years

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PART 1 ; 2 ; 3

TURTLEDOVE (in progress)

ok i accidentally answered 2 for Switchboard in the first one and then part of 9 in the second one but i'll finish up for 'em here and then i'll move on to Turtledove (for now)

★★★

Question 2; when in canon does your self insert come in? Do you have a scene in mind for your entrance?

yes, i do! sort of, anyway. as i said in part one, i come into the story in the pilot episode of The Flash (2014), so the only people who have been on the scene before me really are Team Arrow.

i do want to write an actual fic for it so im not going to get TOO too detailed here, but the story starts the night of the particle accelerator explosion. i'm in the crowd at the event because science is my thing and like barry says in the episode, the STAR Labs particle accelerator was supposed to change how we view everything. (still not totally sure HOW because he never really elaborates on why it's "lightyears ahead of what they're doing at CERN", which if you're not familiar with it is a european scientific organization, and it owns and runs the Large Hadron Collider– but i digress)

i didn't live in Central City, i was just in town for the event. when the particle accelerator exploded, i was on-scene, so i was hit with a high concentration of dark matter and various unknown energies. i also received an electric shock, nowhere near barry's lightning strike– but the blast threw me back and i crashed through a window. i was also in a coma for nine months, like barry, and though i was at a different hospital, they were having similar problems to barry's– which caught the attention of STAR Labs.

caitlin called in a favor or two to get me into their care. when barry woke, i was still in my coma, which made for a poignant if slightly awkward first "meeting" on his end. our stories were similar, but unlike him, i'd had no visitors. a bit later, my coma broke as well, much to everyone's surprise. my horror at finding i'd missed nine months of my life fell into dread and disbelief that i had lost everything; no job, no home, no one who cared enough to visit. it was a much simpler decision for me than for barry, so it's no wonder i agreed to tests and training before him. i came up with my name, and Cisco approved it but was mildly salty he didn't think of it. Switchboard and the Flash came onto the heroing scene at about the same time

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Question 9; who are your self insert's closest friends?

during my time with Team Flash, cisco and barry for sure. after a while, caitlin grows on me, and im a lot more understanding of frost than the others are at first. i was never particularly close with the first "wells" but the betrayal still stung; it took a while for me to fully warm up to harry, both because of that and because in the beginning he's kind of an asshole, which i tell him. he admits that is a fairer reception than he's getting from the others. i tell him i know he isn't thawne, and im willing to give him a chance, but it's difficult, etc etc.

i tend to give joe and barry a hard time sometimes, joe more than barry, because i don't like cops. iris and i have a strained relationship, really tense and neither of us really likes the other. wally is fun, but we don't talk much at first except when barry introduces us, which frankly doesn't do me any favors since wally doesn't like barry at first. my relationship with wally improves when he finds out that barry and i are also flash and switchboard. jesse is really cool but we never really get close, aside from a bit of mentoring and hero tips, same as wally.

after i leave the team, i feel betrayed by pretty much everyone who was there, but i still care about them even if im angry, upset, and hurt. since barry wasn't there, he's one of the few i don't feel burned by, and whenever he asks me to come visit, i try. for the others, it has to be work-only.

during my time on Team Arrow, im closest to digg. we have a sibling-type friendship; he's the big brother, im the kid sibling, and we help each other when oliver is driving us up the wall. felicity is sweet, and she's funny, but she's more like a work friend than anything. same for dinah and rene, minus the sweet. out of the new teammates, it's curtis i get along with the most, and then rory.

as a general rule of thumb, i try not to get involved with oliver or thea outside of hero work, because they're billionaires and don't do much to help people out financially, and in oliver's case he's also just kind of an ass. i trust them with hero work for the most part, but we're more like trusted allies than friends.

after ollie, digg, and felicity betray the new members' trust by spying on them, there's another argument just like the one i had with team flash; i haven't decided, storywise, whether they included me in that or not, but it doesn't matter whether they did or not, because the betrayal itself brings up that same traumatic feeling from before, and i quit without letting them explain. i do have the decency and presence of mind to tell the newer members what the other three did, but then i pack it up and leave.

around this time, there's a timeline split, because this is around the same time batman disappears, and i think it would be cool to cover for him while he's gone until eventually batwoman recreates the batteam and i join them. on the other hand, originally this is the part of the story where i am so fed up with everyone that i actually leave our universe and move to Earth-38 and end up helping supergirl. then, eventually, i end up leaving to help batwoman in gotham anyway, so it's really a matter of when in the timeline it happens.

anyway, during my time with the Superfriends, winn and lena are my best friends, and we actually become more than that. after my partners, i think my closest friends would actually be alex and j'onn, partly because i just kinda vibe with them, partly because, in alex's case, we're queer buddies, and in j'onn's, he's a father figure. i never really vibed with maggie but i was happy for alex; i was much more approving when she and kelly got together.

kara is sweet, and we're friends for sure but we definitely have our differences. we argue over her decisions sometimes, and i try not to pull rank but occasionally when they agree with me and don't want to outright say it, alex, j'onn, or james will bring up that ive been heroing longer. jimmy, im not super close with, and admittedly i don't really get the guardian thing because neither he nor kelly is really someone with those physical skills?

mon-el was never really my kind of person, but i appreciated that he was trying and that he made kara happy; i actually was his biggest defender against kara when it came out that he was a daxamite, which kara absolutely blasted me for, since i didn't have the context. my argument was that you can't help who or what you're born as, and what matters is the steps you take to be a better person. mon-el probably considered me a closer friend than i considered him, given the situation?

eventually, brainy and nia show up, and they get added to the bestie pile. i actually added brainy to my little polycule before nia showed up, and we talked and i gave the ok, so he asked nia out too. which was a little confusing for her at first! but we talked it out, and now they're dating.

eventually i do end up taking a break from Earth-38, and the others are very understanding if a little sad. so i go to visit my home universe (Earth-1) to see what's up and... okay, so i went home to see if batwoman needed any help.

obviously i arrived in gotham, scoped it out... turned on the batsignal. we had a talk, i welcomed her to the scene, asked if she needed any help. the usual. found out it was another rich person, and specifically kate kane, cousin of billionaire bruce wayne (what is with rich people becoming superheroes? oh, right, the inherent difference in free time since they're not working 20 hour days to make ends meet) but she's a lot more willing to listen than oliver was. so i join team bat, and she sets up tons of automatic recurring donations bc she is simply very moved by my argument (and she thinks im hot)

anyway. i get along splendidly with kate, to the point that i end up talking to my polycule about it and they give me the go-ahead to flirt (but if it becomes serious they want to meet her). i also get on really well with luke and mary! in fact i end up talking to kate about the way she sort of brushes off mary all the time; mary really appreciates me because i actually pay attention to her & her life, and im really good about valuing her contributions to the team. i also love that she runs an underground clinic and i encourage kate to help with funding. luke is cool and funny and we're buds, but we do butt heads sometimes.

when kate disappears i have to pick up the slack, again. it brings back memories of the months before i left team flash. when ryan comes onto the scene, it's a mostly welcome surprise, if a heartbreaking one ("how did she get the suit?" being the leading question) and we really hit it off. we have really similar views on a lot of things and she's funny, unyielding, compassionate. we're good friends and we work well as partners in the field. when it comes to alice, though, we argue. a lot.

ummmm i think that's about it. OH, wait, i forgot the legends. so i get briefly abducted by captain hunter the same way the rest of the OG legends crew does, which is a bit of an ouchie to my ego when the news comes out, but i scoff and tell him that's bullshit because i've seen time change around me, around barry, around the people i love, and these time masters haven't done anything about it. it ends in an argument, of course. rip and i don't tend to get along; i find him to be a bit hypocritical for my tastes, especially after he forms the time bureau.

my best friends on the waverider are obviously going to be ray, leonard, martin, and jax. i already got along with them from my time with teams flash and arrow, and leonard is one of the few centralites i kept relatively in touch with. we're friends, of a sort. he thinks it's funny that im a superhero who likes that he steals from the rich, i like his personality. he's also aware that his cold gun would destroy me just like barry, and i've never been shot by it so... i half-jokingly use that as evidence he prefers me to barry.

mick and i aren't friends, necessarily, but i give him more trust and leeway than everybody else does, so he views me more like a teammate than anyone but snart. im actually the one to defend him when the others talk badly about him or refuse to trust him after everything.

sara im sort of neutral with. we're teammates, then she's the captain. she's okay, but we're not really friends so much as teammates and allies. same for kendra and carter.

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Question 12; how would the fandom view your character?

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well, i think the answer to that depends on a lot of factors. personally i would find it refreshing to see a character that isn't all the way up the others' asses (particularly in the cases of iris, barry, kara) because it feels more natural if there are diverse opinions on each character within the cast of characters. the same can be said about having a character who is willing to keep an open mind under weird circumstances (in the cases of frost, the wells (but especially harry since he's the first after thawne), and others) but i think there are a lot of people who would dislike me for that reason too.

for the most part? i think people would find me cool, if a little op. not anywhere near as op as a kryptonian, though, and they're some of the most popular superheroes. i think in general a fandom's opinion on a character also depends on what is going on in the medium in that moment. for example if the episode ended right after my fight with team flash/arrow, my popularity would probably drop significantly, and there'd be drama. if the current arc involves a romantic subplot, then interest might peak. it depends on what version of Switchboard you're talking about, when in the timeline they are, etc. but generally speaking, i think superhero fans would like me if i were canon.

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