lancer hot take GO
1. CRIMINALLY underrated as a key player in the narrative. so often in fan content, he’s relegated to comic relief when in reality his character arc is the fucking CO-FOCAL POINT of ch1 (alongside susie’s)
but where susie learns that opposition isn’t always the answer, and it can lead to her hurting people she loves, lancer learns that the authority figure in his life isn’t omnipotent and perfect and he can stand up for what he knows is just. he can question the adult in his life he can BE HIS OWN PERSON and he doesn’t have to feel like he’s not good enough. fuck. not personal or anything prommy (lying)
2. i think he should be allowed to KILL. queen will livestream it. shit would be funny as fuck
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Callouts failed when they went from “this person has an established predatory modus operandi and uses this site to find victems, PSA please stay safe if this this person starts interacting with you they could hurt you” to “interacting with this person is icky stay clean keep feeling clean don’t interact with the icky”
I'm going to be honest I remain unconvinced that there has ever been a time when people weren't using the language of the former when actually expressing the latter. The purpose of a system is what it does. If there is a specific framework of post designed to unperson a specific kind of hypothetical "bad person", there is no scenario in which that framework isn't going to be abused.
Ultimately the term "callout" is too vague to even have a cohesive stance on though. I've seen it used to describe anything from mild criticisms to whole tomes of vitriol explicitly designed to get someone killed.
I don't know. These days I don't even feel comfortable mentioning people that have actively harassed me by their usernames at the risk of getting hate spread their way. I can't really imagine the appeal of singling out a person and then posting about how much they suck. I don't even care if the person they're calling out does suck. I just don't feel safe around anyone that posts like that.
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You know what I would have loved in an alternate TotK with a more nuanced story and a more nuanced Ganondorf, though? For him to still transform into a dragon, but only after his last boss phase. And then, *as the lore of the game stipulates like three times over* (and then constantly contradicts and ignores even though it was the only thing that had lasting consequences ANYWAY), he actually does lose himself.
Like he's just gonna be an immortal dragon now, letting go of his consciousness and goals but still refusing to be erased. And so you'd have a postgame Hyrule where he's just, chilling in the air alongside Dinraal, Farosh and Naydra, and nobody can do shit about that.
It's just where he is now!
Anyway, I have finished Tears of the Kingdom.
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i see some posts around in the tag about the wizard’s behavior in the heap (among other places) and how it was meant to show case how quick the wizard is to jump into a more physically aggressive approach compared to the one we are encouraged to take (i.e. talking it out etc)
i feel like.... the “you look disappointed” line hit a different chord to me. not of one where its like ‘the wizard was disappointed because they didnt get to fight’ but more of something like ‘i wish there had been a chance given to me to be able to talk it out’
because thats always the way ive read that line -- that because of the wizard’s rising status as ‘‘something to be reckoned with’‘, of course opposing forces are going to want to defeat them.
thats sort of the way that i interpreted that line -- because we had already seen the wizard give someone mercy in khrysalis. we spare the life of kaliklack in the beginning of khrysalis and he’s surprised at this fact; we allow him to change and depend on us even if the environment at the time was less than ideal. we were that at morganthe’s peak, nearing the end of the final showdown, and we were meant to act and do as a spy. it would mean losing literally everything if the wizard got found out early and lost to morganthe’s forces
but... we spare them. and they help us in return. we are quite literally incredibly lucky that zaltanna ended up being on our side because if she wasn’t, our act of mercy on the one we are supposed to kill would have been an immediate give away to the kind of person that we are.
i think, above all else, that the wizard is seen as a being of mercy. because we never actually see anything outright stated that the wizard is doing things out of malice (unless i’m forgetting something). we walk into traps that we know are obvious, and as far as i know - we never go too far.
we even spare grandfather spider - the biggest act of mercy of all! the entire deal with the end of arc 3 was raven and spider needing to talk things out and end up reconnecting because of it, and now it seems implied that the wizard would rather fight than talk things out?
like. we even befriended dasein and that was after sybil was like ‘‘you have nothing to fear’‘ LIKE ALRIGHT so like WHYYY is it different in the heap
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