#she is such an empathetic character

[anoray]

Me watching Omega plotting in full on Batch mode this last episode:

#the bad batch #the bad batch spoilers #omega #she is such an empathetic character #my fave of all the SW kiddos to date #heart of gold #but mess with anyone she cares about #i pity the fool

[nats-uvi]

Angst time :D👍

You can read my rambling about her in the tags

#listen LisTEN TO Me #hear me OuT #oh is hc time #I read a while ago howw empathetic people tend to feel bad when they feel any angry/“negative emoy #el archivo literalmrnte lo tengo giardafo como “problemas emocionales goes brrrr” xD #how they tend to bottle everything up cause it makes thrm feel shame about how their actions might be seen as “selfish” #despite having VERY good and VALID reasons to justify thrir anger #based on the pilot I think she's pretty meek and also a little bit of a pushover #also I was thinking she'll be pretty self consious and try to mask her emotions the best she can #which obviously is super unhealthy #I think that at some point she's just going to SNAP and is gonna be awful and soo sad and omg I cant wait to see it #give my girl some character development pls #cause as much as I like crybabies characters I also like for thrm to learn how to stand up for themselves #anyway sory if that didnt made sense xDd is just that I have never had so much fun with a fictional character #mi hija fr #el archivo literalmente lo tengo guardado vomo “problemas emocionales goes brrr” xD #ya ahora si los tags serios #tadc fanart #the amazing digital circus #tadc #tadc gangle #gangle

[fromtheseventhhell]

Very funny to me how Stansas present her character as being so interesting and complex because of her vulnerabilities, while simultaneously ignoring those same vulnerabilities in other characters. Dany is sold as a bridal slave and lacks agency throughout AGOT and after. Her dragons are either too young/small to utilize effectively or locked away for the majority of the story. They aren't some all-powerful trump card that protects her from harm. Arya is captured as a prisoner of war, forced to watch countless people tortured and murdered, and then essentially enslaved in Harrenhal with no way to fight back. She has an entire arc of feeling powerless, of being a "mouse", during ACOK. She doesn't have "kung-fu" or the ability to magically fight her way out of every situation, she's a young child lacking physical strength with only the most basic sword training.

Sansa isn't the only female character, she isn't the only young character, she isn't the only character who suffered, and no one is obligated to prioritize her. I'm so tired of Dany and Arya being mischaracterized and having their stories erased to prop Sansa up. "Sansa has kept her dignity" In other words, let's praise her for having a level of security that Dany and Arya don't have access to. She hasn't ever been forced to make a hard decision which of course means that she's morally superior to them. They can't even admit to themselves that her lack of action is due to her own passivity. If it doesn't fit their delusion, they erase it from the story and expect the rest of us to play along. Ask one of them what they like about her character without bringing up her being the ultimate victim, and I genuinely don't believe they'd be able to give you an answer. They belittle other characters more than they talk about her and these takes just scream insecurity/jealousy at the content and development other characters have in their POVs.

#arya stark #daenerys targaryen #anti arya bs #anti daenerys bs #asoiaf #anti sansa stans #these being comments on a video of a stansas /correcting/ a Dany stan...the jokes write themselves #/she's a break from the fantasy/ /people would be equally powerless in her situation/ like they aren't even pretending #that they don't use her as a boring every-man self-insert #okay she's subjectively /normal/...what is interesting or important about that in a fantasy novel? 😭 #Arya and Dany are so interesting because they have that complexity...vulnerability but also the strength to navigate their situations #and it isn't because they're /special/ it's because that's who they are as characters #Reducing Dany to her dragons or Arya to her combat abilities (which barely exist) is such a disservice to their arcs #but of course acknowledging that they're well-developed and empathetic doesn't square with their fantasy that #Sansa is the most pure important character who deserves everything because she suffered 🙄 #they really write entire fanfictions and then go /why don't people think like us?? 😔/ #/Sansa kept her dignity/ yeah that's why she's currently part of a plot to poison a disabled child #because she was told she'd benefit from it oh yeah she's sooooooo morally superior to Dany and Arya 😑

[argelladurrandaun]

Fun fact,in a storm of swords, Arya was ready to wear dresses and take baths for lady Ravella Smallwood. Because the lady was kind to arya.

Some of the women tried to put her in a dress and make her do needlework, but they weren't Lady Smallwood and she was having none of it. - Arya, ASoS

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"I do not know who you are, child," the woman said, "and it may be that's for the best. Someone important, I fear." She smoothed down Arya's collar. "In times like these, it is better to be insignificant. Would that I could keep you here with me. That would not be safe, though. I have walls, but too few men to hold them." She sighed.

Arya even feels bad for ruining her dress.

"I'm sorry, my lady." Arya suddenly felt bad for her, and ashamed. "I'm sorry I tore the acorn dress too. It was pretty."

"Yes, child. And so are you. Be brave." (Arya IV, ASoS)

And later arya even remembers lady Smallwoods kindness and that she had called arya pretty. Because it meant so much to arya.

Arya spotted a yellow tent with six acrons on its panels, three over two over one. Lord Smallwood, she knew, remembering Acorn Hall so far away, and the lady who'd said she was pretty.

Just because lady Smallwood was so kind and understanding to arya, makes arya want to listen and obey her and even do things that arya wouldn't normally do. All it takes is a few words of kindness.

Which makes me think that growing up catelyn wasn't particularly understanding or kind to arya. We know that septa mordane definitely wasn't. Otherwise arya would have been a little more inspired to do more ladylike things and would feel less like disobeying her mother, if only arya was asked kindly and shown more understanding and compassion.

#arya stark #I just love lady Ravella Smallwood #One of my favorite character #asoiaf #Catelyn tully #In my opinion lady Smallwood was a much better mother figure to arya than catelyn and septa mordane ever was #Lady Ravella didn't even know who arya was and yet she was more kind and empathetic to arya than her mother ever was

[shorthaltsjester]

hate when i agree with a post or thought about cr and then op comes out with “if [insert female character] was caleb or percy ya’ll would love them” . i promise people hated caleb and percy. i promise that is a thing that happened and continues to happen. there Is a lot of misogyny in the cr fandom, people disliking specific traits about characters with trauma is not misogyny. it’s typically just as shitty but it’s not about the gender.

#today this is about imogen but i’ve seen it about Most female characters one time or another #funnily enough percy and caleb and imogen have enough differences that you Can like one and dislike the others and vice versa #also. we have the whole story with percy and caleb (barring future one shots which are. bonus) but with imogen she’s still developing . #i can say with Confidence i was much less empathetic to caleb and percy around their episodes 70 than i am to them now #anyway #critical role #caleb widogast #percival de rolo #percy de rolo

[utilitycaster]

Something I really like about how Laura plays Imogen is that her idea of what's appropriate to say around people she likes is completely warped by her powers. I think Imogen feels it's better to voice your honest thoughts, even if they're somewhat tactless or lack the niceties one would expect, which makes sense because what most frustrates her is people who think one thing and say the other. However, that's not the standard for hypocrisy among people who aren't psychic, which is why she often comes off the way she does.

#critical role #honestly as someone who usually finds psychic characters VERY annoying i think this is giving us insight that is usually lacking #imogen's standards of empathy and hypocrisy are on a fully different scale than most people's are - including all of bells hells #and on some level it's like. she does know how to mask it but doesn't w/people she's more comfortable with (the party & her father) #but also it means she's often the least traditionally empathetic with people she cares about #it's a SUPER interesting flip of Laura's usual M.O. #imogen temult

[literaryspinster]

I just saw a commenter annoyed with Marie for being afraid to use her powers and... the only time i can recall her being hesitant to use her powers was when she didn't want to hurt Cate. Also, even if she was always afraid to use them she has a good damn reason because she's killed and maimed several people completely by accident. People are so goddamn weird on Twitter.

#marie moreau #gen v #she's the character that people tend to be the least empathetic toward for whatever reason #it's like every decision she makes gets on someone's nerves enough to imagine she does that thing habitually #i don't think she quite needs a protection squad just yet but i can see it coming #she wanted to go to superhero school what in the h makes you think she's constantly scared of using her powers?

[supercasey]

Me after beating Leon's 1st run: Wow, I really like this Leon character! I wonder if I'll like playing the alternate character's story as much? Probably not.

Me after beating Claire's 1st run: Leon who? Claire is actually the best protagonist in this game with the far superior storyline and I'll defend her until I'm dead. Also if anything bad happens to her in this franchise past this point, I'll blow up the world.

#resident evil #resident evil 2 #re2 #leon s kennedy #leon kennedy #claire redfield #i didn't think I'd like her story as much since i really fell in love with leon #but holy crap she's so wonderful! she cares so so much for a random kid and drops everything to save her from what's going on #what can i say? I'm soft for empathetic characters #supercasey ramblings

[mari-monsta]

Does alya actually stop at nothing to uncover secrets even at the cost of other peoples feelings or did you just watch season one only and alyas subsequent character growth and caution in the later seasons has been entirely lost on you to the point that the version of her in your head is unrecognizable to me

#alya has had her bulldozer moments for sure . but so have all of them #alya has argueably shown herself to be one of the more cautious and empathetic characters in later seasons #might i remind everyone that alya was the ONLY one who objected to ninos plan to make gabriel angry in season 5 #she knew it would have bad repercussions for adrien and she was the only one who really advised against it #she has not even tried to uncover anyones identity since lime #SEASON 2???? #please people

[dragynkeep]

Yang in volume 1:

Yang in volume 9:

Yang in volume 2:

Yang in volume 9:

Yang was more mature in the early volumes than she is now change my mind

They fr just butchered Yang's character and stripped her of all the positivies she had in the earlier volumes, supposedly before her "development".

#submission #frankly in the first volumes she didn't even stuck me as the type of character whose defining trait was anger #she was quick to resolve to it when she was fighting sure #but generally for someone whose main flaw was supposed to be agression she didn't seem like an angry person to me #well except for that scene where she yelled in blake's face and shoved her against the desk twice #that was just yikes #wasn't romantic at all🫠 #in fact at some point in her development of dealing with her emotions I believe she should've recalled moments in her life #when she didn't notice she needlessly resolved to anger even when she genuinely meant well #during my first watch she even gave me the impression of that empathetic older sister type #who would on the contrary sometimes would know what to say to calm someone down #and who is just too mature and cool to get pissed over some bs #and when they got angry you knew it meant shit mustve gone bad for real #yes i know i slept on the series #but now she's really walked out on the only significant development she had #yang deserved better #rwde #yang xiao long #luke.txt

[wall-maria-around-ba-sing-se]

Warning: this meme oversimplifies a character’s story for the sake of a joke

#xenoblade #xenoblade chronicles 3 #xenoblade 3 #xc3 #yes I know this is after she has a character arc and is older and growing into her role as a more empathetic leader #but it is funny they used the same clothes/models in the flashback as if this all happened within a few weeks of each other

[justaboot]

Reminds me of that split-second moment in "The Last Crash of the Sunchaser" where Scrooge says 'Nothing will happen to her!" and Beakley responds 'Her? Her who?' Launchpad then gets really sad and hesitates to follow Scrooge's orders which shocks Beakley.

Later, in the finale, when Beakley retells the story of what happened to Scrooge after Della disappeared to the boys, Webby, and Donald during the reunion party, the camera focuses on Launchpad and he starts to freak out. Once she's finished telling the story, Launchpad angrily shouts "A lot! This lady knows a lot!"

It makes me wonder what the relationship of Scrooge & LP was like before the boys came to visit and how LP came to learn the story of what happened to Della, seeing as he didn't know her and had no involvement with the Spear of Selene.

Ahh I don’t know how I missed this in my ask box, but everything about Beakley in Last Crash is such good storytelling as to the years they spent living together before the boys showed up. She’s got his number she was THERE to watch everything after it fell apart.

“I havent felt this energized since…”

She KNOWS

She KNOWS

LOOK AT HER FACE SHE WAS THERE FOR THE STORY HES ABOUT TO TELL THIS LADY KNOWS A LOT

Realizing now my reading comprehension is garbage at the moment anyway LP

I always took that moment with LP as a moment of clarity for him, like there is CLEARLY a conversation happening here that The Grown Ups are having that he doesn’t understand, and he looks around and realizes he’s one of The Grown Ups, and is put in a decision making position.

Like ^ love LP but Scrooge just made a HUGE slip up, and that boy is head. empty.

I do think it would have been interesting to have seen his take on it, but I’m realizing now in present day, his whole perspective on What Happened was completely based on what he can see. I’m not sure he ever considered what happened before, or why things are the way they are, just that This Is How It Is, you know? And the boys are here now, and so the most important thing is what’s in front of him, which is keeping them in the house. And then when Beakley lays out her “Hey, Scrooge is a person who went through something, have you considered he is still hurting, too?” it’s an awakening for him as well. I don’t think thought about it, either.

#honestly that episode is such a good character study for her she’s in control she’s proper she’s bossy but she’s also so empathetic #HES ABOUT TO TELL THE STORY OF THE WORST THING THATS EVER HAPPENED IN HIS 150 YEARS AND SHE KNOWS IT #I get really emotional thinking about how Beakley tries to defend Scrooge #they call him out on things he didn’t do and she’s like Hey that’s not how it happened- #bc she was THERE for everything in the flashbacks #ahhh #that’s her FRIEND she wants to drop kick him off the roof 6 days of the week but he’s her FRIEND

[lastoneout]

"We need more imperfect female characters!" Y'all can't even talk about Nami without describing her as "mean" despite the fact that the entire crux of her first character arc is her caring about her village so much she tolerates torture and misery for years just for a chance to save it, and after that becomes one of the most kind and selfless characters in the entire main cast.

#every time I see someone call Nami a “mean lesbian” before implying she would never give a shit #about her friend's problems or wellbeing I lose ten years off my lifespan #even as a joke it's just blatant mischaracterization #regardless of her hypothetic sexuality she's legit so empathetic and she cares so much all the time #she gives up money constantly to help people #she can be a nice lesbian you know #not all lesbians are mean #idk I know it's a joke mostly but Nami means a lot to me as a character #so I hate to see people call her mean when SHE ISN'T SHE'S SO NICE ALL THE TIME #she's usually the FIRST one in the crew to stand up to injustice #she puts so much energy into caring about people and protecting them #she's incredibly selfless #to the point that it's a flaw #she's only mean sometimes as a defense mechanism bcs she's traumatized #and she heals and stops being like that #one piece #nami one piece

[ettadunham]

ciri is so problematic in her be gay do crime era, and i'm still obsessed with all the complexity and empathy sapkowski writes her with

#to be fair it's hard not to be empathetic towards a character when you constantly put her in a grinder like it's a hamster wheel #but still! she's fucked up she's stupid she's smart she's cruel she's compassionate and most importantly she's 15! #mse's re-reading the witcher

[thescreaminghat]

just finished watching pluto (and just finished crying my fucking eyes out at every scene featuring epsilon and his kids) and while i understand that the focus is the philosophical and emotional narratives being explored and the weight that is given to each character, human or not, and how they grapple with their pain, it would have been kinda funny if the show had ended like this

#pluto #pluto spoilers #atom #uran #epsilon #everything is fine epsilon is fine he is taking care of his 15 children and with his new bodyguard/boyfriend nothing bad ever happened #also uran is an integral point in the plot of course she is and not just the emotional distress beacon right :^ ) #ik there are narrative constraints but i think having the three most pacifistic / empathetic characters work together to resolve #what seems to appear to a lot of new viewers as an action-driven story is a great way to give meaning to the themes #meaning that it would have been nice if uran had more to do than just worry about atom and the negative feelings of others #idk anyways they are so precious to me i love them and they are fine everything is fine

[waterghostype]

im a believer in sora falling for jordana first Tbh

#ninjago #raspberry #aphid philosophy #i just think she would have the urge to save jordana or pity her in some way #sora looking at jordana and going i can fix her #“broken things can be fixed and made stronger” #i have a whole made up backstory for jordana btw like you guys dont even know how obsessed i am w her #also sora is clearly very empathetic i dont know if she will hate jordana all the way if she sees through her or even sees herself in her #aorry guys jm just.insane about jordana and all the stuff i made up abt her #im ready to be thoroughly disappointed if her character is not the exact same in my head