Erica or Boyd next! Erica or Boyd next! Erica or Boyd next! (/j, of course, but I'm really liking your analysis of the ships and characters!)
ERICA
Okay gang, so here's the thing about Erica. (For the sake of the analysis once again, she is not dead) My girl went through a LOT in her life before she got turned. She had to deal with her medical condition and the impact that had on her socially, mentally, emotionally, and in basically every other aspect of her life. Kind of like Isaac, when she got turned and got powerful, her personality experienced a whiplash. She went from being shy and insecure to being incredibly confident in a day. Which is entirely fair, she got a chance to restart her whole life the way she wanted to live. BUT it also created a gap of time where she was really just playing a part again instead of being herself, you can really see towards the end of her time on the show her character softening out and her becoming more comfortable with herself.
I LOVE her and Boyd, and I really feel like their relationship was supportive and special for both of them. But I guess I always put them together because they were the only characters that either of them had soft interactions with and stuck with during their time on the show. And the way I viewed their relationship was, salty, clever Erica, and firm, loyal Boyd, who were there for each other through thick and thin but never really romantic. I guess they could be lovers but I don't think that's what was best for either of them.
Erica and Stiles were an interesting match and I loved their banter. They DEFINITELY needed more screen time together, they could've been a really iconic duo, but she could never have really been what Stiles needed, and she deserved better than to be second string all her life.
Isaac and Erica again, were just playing more reckless shells of themselves to make up for all the time they had lost being afraid during the beginning of their relationship. And by the end, again, they never really could've been what each other needed.
I've seen Cora and Erica be shipped? I don't know, they would just both try to be the boss in the relationship and it wouldn't go over smoothly in a romantic relationship.
In short (this is not going to be that short) I think that Erica shouldn't have ended up with anybody on the show. She's charismatic and witty and beautiful and doesn't deserve to be shoved into a relationship with any of the characters already there just because she was single.
Ideally, I've got this idea of her ending up with someone not involved in the supernatural world. She's been dragged so far into it all because Derek needed a pack (he's made some very poor decisions I'll admit) and ended up basically losing everything for it. She deserved to have a little bit of refuge from it all.
I like to think she becomes the person she would've needed when she was younger and maybe she finds the person who would've healed her when she was young and hurting. And maybe falls in love with them completely of her own volition later, when she is healed a little more and is a person of her own, instead of desperately clinging to them while she was at a point in her life when she was weak and afraid.
She just deserved somebody who picked her first, who didn't take advantage of her, who could take her out of that world a little and show her there's more to life than the wolf inside her.
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you know, maybe one of the reasons Law has resonated with me as a character lately is because he ate the Ope-Ope no Mi/Op-Op Fruit and my Midwestern American ass recognizes that sacred word and just clings to it because he is exactly the type of guy who would wear a hoodie with shorts and exudes not only big I Might Have Had A Rebellious Phase But I’m A Professional Now If You Would Just Listen to Me I am So Tired energy but also what is Flevance but a Rust Belt town decimated by toxic mining and a government filled with just enough people who want to sweep it under the rug and look the other way and this doesn’t even get into headcanons about Flevance being the Low Countries/more Dutch than what most people think of when they read “German” bc it caters to my personal whims or Detroit parallels because I will make Detroit parallels about every fictional center of wealth and prosperity and culture that gets fucking abandoned and treated like trash (especially by those around it) and no one can stop me
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o-KAY!
threw together some dough for bread last night but ended up shoving it into the fridge because I came down with a sudden migraine and opted for bed instead. Plus side - I get fresh bread this morning!
I had to fill out a form for school since i missed applying for our grad requirements workshop (so I can graduate at the end of the semester!)
Now, working on reading a couple articles for class tonight, as well as continuing my work to compile potential book resources for my capstone.I need to find close to 20 books which will then be whittled down to 10 which will be put into an annotated bibliography, and then 3 of those will be what I am reading and responding to in my final research paper :')
** the gorgeous prints i bought from adambcreates on the etsy. y'know when you see some art and, within it, yourself? yea.
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