As a fellow Dovewing lover, it's frustrating how the fandom watered her down into a whiny brat who never cared about Ivypool. I mean, seriously? Not only did Dovewing care about her sister (reacting in horror when Lionblaze, her own mentor and Jayfeather are willing to potentially sacrifice Ivypool's safety by employing her as her spy instead of trying to get her out of the Dark Forest's clutches, hiding a thorn in her nest to cover for her scarring from her training).
Heck, even the scene where she tries to feed Ivypool her catch during a hunting patrol was demonized because 'she was trying to make Ivypool break the code like SHE does, as if it doesn't matter' and because she got upset when Ivypool started arguing with her! But you guys said she didn't care, right? Plus, people act like being forced into a prophecy is something you should be grateful for, as if it didn't irreparably change her close relationship with her sister? As if Lionblaze and Jayfeather didn't still keep her out of the loop (and for all the fussing they made about keeping it a secret, Lionblaze confesses his power to Cinderheart and Jayfeather doesn't even care).
Meanwhile Nightheart is angry he isn't orange and hates his mom for being exiled and the whole world has to stop for him. 🤪 And Bramblestar is simply so tortured by having an evil father, the only choice is to train with him and his evil half-brother and hide this from his wife! (But remember, it's bad when that witch Squirrelflight hides the parentage of the three from him, even when Blackstar and Leopardstar were still around after being complicit in the torture and killing of halfclan cats.) Why are these male characters sympathized with, even when they actively harm people (Nightheart forcing himself into Sunbeam's life by lying to everyone about being her mate without even asking her if she would be fine with that beforehand), Bramblestar (we all know what he does), but when Dovewing or any other female character is upset, people freak out and call them whiny brats or abusive for (checks notes) asking her partner if he loves her anymore after they argued multiple times in a book. Really makes you think! (Sorry this is so long, you just have based opinions!)
dovewing being characterized as this flighty airheaded vain popular girl stereotype in fanon is like. one of those biggest "we didnt actually read the books" things in the fandom. like theres so much fanart where shes grinning and giggling over the prophecy and shes besties with the trio and shes got preferential treatment, and then in the actual books shes basically the autistic kid no one actually likes. people really, REALLY overexaggerate that one scene where she snaps at ivypaw and brags. (and i dont wanna shit on amvs but i am forever side eying how the animation community handled dove back in the day. more than one person animated her getting murdered. normal.)
i do think its gotten better recently at least. but wow does it feel like at least one person on the writing team has a bone to pick
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if tails got his parents back, do u think he would be happy about it? what would sonic say?
I mean . . . maybe? It depends.
If Tails' parents just left him, rather than being deceased as they are in my headcanon, then they really need to have a damn good reason. And I don't just mean "we thought it was for the best" or anything like that. I mean, they were forcibly separated by some disastrous weather event and couldn't find their way back to him in time, or they were abducted by a sea monster or aliens, or something where leaving him wasn't their choice and they tried everything they could to get back to him, not resting until they did. Tails was happily adopted by Sonic, of course, but he suffered before that. He was bullied and ostracized in the village. He has abandonment issues that are a direct result of losing his parents. If they just fucked off to go explore the world, or got separated from him and then didn't try to find him again, I think he would understandably be really hurt and upset by it. He wouldn't just take them back. If they wanted to leave him, fine; that was their choice. But in that case, they can stay gone. He doesn't need them.
But if it wasn't their choice to leave him, and they did try to make it back to him and finally succeeded . . . in that case he would be open to a relationship with them, I think, but it would still be weird and probably uncomfortable for all involved, for a variety of reasons. I mean, to start with: Tails would acknowledge that they're his parents. They're the ones who sired and gave birth to him. But no matter the reason, they're not the ones who raised him. They're not really his parents in the ways that matter. Again, in this particular case it's not their fault; by all accounts they would have raised him if they were given the chance. But that doesn't really matter, because they weren't given the chance and they didn't raise him, and that means that he's not going to see them as authority figures in his life, nor are they the ones he's going to go to when he needs advice, guidance, or protection. They can try objecting to things like him living in his workshops by himself, developing potentially dangerous tech, and fighting Eggman; but they don't really get a say, and if they tried to have one he'd resist hard. There would need to be boundaries there, and I think his parents would get their feelings very hurt by it, but they'd basically be strangers to Tails. They'd be no different from any other adult that tried to come in and run his life when, by his estimation, he has a pretty good handle on things. If they want to get to know him, that's fine, but they don't get to parent him. It might not be their fault, but it's still too late for that. He already has a guardian that he looks up to and who looks out for him, and their return into his life isn't going to change that.
And as for Sonic . . . I mean, Sonic is very much "let people make their own decisions about their lives" and that applies to Tails, too, with the caveat that he will step in if the decisions Tails is making are ones that are actively harmful to him. In this case, I think Sonic's course of action would be "take a step back and let Tails figure this out for himself / see how it plays out." He would try to ignore how much he absolutely hates this situation, for a myriad of reasons (his own parents are gone and likely not coming back, who are these people coming in trying to take Tails from him, do they even have a right to do that, sure they have more of a right than any other would-be parents but what the fuck, how is this fair, etc etc), because if it makes Tails happy, well. That's what's most important. Sonic will be supportive, or at least as supportive as he can be, because Tails' happiness matters to him. It matters a whole lot.
But as previously stated, even if his parents had a Very Good Reason for abandoning him, Tails still isn't about to go off and be a happy nuclear family with them. And if they tried to push it, then I think Sonic would step in to advocate for Tails, to amplify Tails' voice and show that, hey, Tails does have someone in his corner, someone who has done a damn good job looking out for him all these years, thanks, and who won't let Tails' own wants be steamrollered to make someone else happy. The hypothetical parents would probably bristle at this, because Sonic is a teenager himself and who is he to tell them to step off—but Sonic's not one to back down, and when it's clear that he's the one Tails looks to, well . . . there's not really a whole lot they can do in this situation, now is there? And I would like to think that, even if it saddened and hurt them to see that their son looked to someone else as a guardian now, they would at least be glad that out of all the guardians he could have ended up with, he ended up with one that obviously cares about and loves him very much.
So honestly, it would really depend, but I can't see Tails ever being like "yay I've got parents, let's be a happy nuclear family!!" if his parents ever turned out to not be dead and made a reappearance in his life. Even if they had a good reason (and that's the only way he'd want a relationship with them at all, I think, because the hurt would run too deep otherwise), the time for that has passed. He's been happily adopted since they left, and they would need to respect that to have any kind of relationship with him at all.
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kitty update.........!
earlier, sweet baby boy tiramisu wandered out to have some food while I was sitting nearby.... the first time he's come out of a hiding spot while someone is around :3
it is currently 2am and I have been awoken by the sound of my drawing tablet being knocked off my desk. went to investigate, obviously he's been doing a little exploring
found him behind the couch again, then he hopped up onto the windowsill while I was patting him and we had windowsill pat times! rather than simply me patting him while he sits behind the couch! so closer to eye-level pats! lots of purring and headbutts
slowly but surely he's warming up to me ahaha
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