C I A and O for the funny fandom meme you rbd!!!
This took forever. But here we go!
(The questions comes from this post!)
C - A ship you have never liked and probably never will.
YUMALIA.
I have. SO MUCH BEEF ABOUT THIS SHIP. And NEVER before did I have a ship that I hated this much! I am a certified shipper TM, that is open to most ships in general, but this one??? It makes my blood boil.
Okay Imma rant a lot here. It's an angry rant and might not be fun to read. Idk, I tried to make sense but I'm not certain I did a great job at it. Oh well.
I want you to understand. When I learned that Yugo and Amalia in Wakfu were supposed to be in a situationship during S1 and S2, I was gobsmacked in surprise.
When the OVAs came around and suddenly showed me there was a romantic drama between the two I did not understand what I was seeing.
Because I didn't actually see it.
I thought these two had a brother/sister dynamic.
(er, disclaimer: it doesn't mean I see them as a brother and a sister bc that'd be stupid. But it's how coded it felt to me)
It's only after knowing about it and watching those seasons again that...Mmmyeah? I could kindaaa see it ? But it was absolutely not working.
Now, I can work with dysfunctional relationships, I do like them! (see my answer for question A)But the fact the relationship between these two is framed as a good one? One that is supposedly a beautiful, interesting and angsty Romance with a capital R?
No! No it isn't! If anything, this is a case were shipping two characters together is at their detriment!
Amalia and Yugo feel like they got lobotomized during S3. I didn't recognize them! They felt off. (I'm not going to go there here, but Pinpin himself actually hints the change without noticing it.)
And S3 was supposed to be about the brotherhood oft he forgotten, that I will refer as "Team daddy issue" here that Ankama has been developing in the games for ages.
Yet, they're barely brushed up on.
I know this is cross media and all, and you learn more about this group in the Ogrest comic (Good and pretty mature read btw. I recommend, but there's some fucked up shit happening it it.) but with, for example, how Harebourg completely changed, I think we could have deserved an explanation there.
I actually fought this guy in the MMO Wakfu in a boss fight and he was closer to his Dofus-self. Very crazy and very angry.
And the WAkfu MMO happens in a very close future to the show.
Now I didn't finish the main quest so maybe there's explanations there, but nothing indicated that Harebourg's personality was going to shift anytime soon.
The show could have at least gave us a flashback and expanded on this.
And also, we're supposed to understand that team daddy issue is supposed to be a group of people who are in a dysfunctional found family but they're not developed enough in the show to reflect it.
Instead, we focus on Yugo and Amalia's relationship, that somehow happens to be at the center of the conflict in S3, and it doesn't even get a satisfying resolution with it.
And by satisfying resolution, I mean, they should have broken up.
Starting with Amalia. She and Yugo flirt while trying to go and save Pinpin and Amalia somehow completely forgets her dying father, which she made a show of not wanting to leave his side earlier in the show. It frankly diminished the stakes to see these two flirt then have a misunderstanding.
It was not the fucking time or place for this!!!
And Amalia feeling like she could go for this dark, mysterious and mostly adult looking Yugo, despite absolutely not knowing the guy?
I felt enraged.
She falls a little for Oropo by default because 'ooOOOooh. Toll Yugo <3'.
That's IT??? She's supposed to really want that relationship with Yugo. She's been holding on to the hope of their relationship finally becoming something but the moment she sees a guy who happens to be a more adult version of him she's ditching Yugo immediately???
Oropo doesn't even seduce her! He just kisses her and she's like 'okay'. WHAT???
I bet the point was to make Yugo insecure in the story, but that just transformed Amalia into a shallow character!! Which was a fucking flip off to her story arc!!
And it immediately invalidated the importance of the ship!
It made it look like it was fling! Not something serious!!!!
That did not make me invested in the ship!
And Yugo.
Holy shit did I want to strangle Yugo during S3.
He had been. A whiny angsty tiny douche. The whole S3.
He kissed Amalia and immediately went 'oh but we can't be a thing', which is a dick/bratty move.
Coming from a guy who wants to be considered as an adult, it's a fucking joke. And I could have been actually okay with it if the story had made him accountable for it. You know. For his character growth??
I wanted, BEGGED, for someone to tell him that maybe, people still keep considering him as a kid because he still fucking acts like one!!!
And you know who is still child shaped and is taken seriously ???
Joris!!!
Joris is a fucking badass and still stuck in the size of a child.
And he doesn't pull a flippin' tantrum about it!!!
And I get it, the point of that story arc in S3 was for Yugo to realize that he still needed to grow up mentally and start to be accountable for his actions...But again, it doesn't feel like the story does that.
Beside learning 'using Eliatropes artifacts bad', it doesn't feel like he had a proper understanding of where he fucked up in other instances such as, Idk, how he fucking treated the princess.
Or his friends. Or his brother (even tho I have a lot of things to say about Adamai too).
No that's not talked upon. But it's solved! Yay!
Ugh.
I do feel like I need to rewatch it and that I might remember some things wrong but I don't think I'd have a good time.
Then S4 happens.
Now, to be fair, S4 was rushed for budget reason, so I give it a grace.
They did not have much time to do stuff, and I actually prefer it to S3.
But I think, instead of trying to make Team Daddy issue the center of the S3, which in reality they fucking weren't, AND if Ankama didn't try to make Yumalia happen, they could have instead worked on Amalia's family situation.
Situation they only talked in passing in S4 because they didn't have any time for it!
There was. SO MUCH FODDER to use there!
And it's not that I don't like the direction they took with Armand (I'd prefer him alive. But I really, REALLY appreciate he didn't end up a villain even tho I thought they were going in that direction), but I would have preferred to see Amalia deal with her dysfunctional family and the consequence of it.
The set up for it was there since the OVAs. Since S1 even if you want to take it that far! And it just...Ends up rushed.
He's a gigantic ass with her when she comes back (not without reason but still. He pulled a big dick move) then immediately 'goes fuck it, we're actually family now' in the span of one episode.
And uh...Okay?
I would have actually wanted them to unpack that in at least 2 or 3 episodes instead.
Or better yet, set up the situation better in S3, and have it pay off in S4.
Because that would have been interesting to see Armand, full of anger that he had to deal with the responsibilities that came on him while dealing with his own grief without her support and the absolute bullshit his father put him through the years finally explode.
And then we could have seen him remember that he actually loved his little sister to bits ( S1 is the proof of that). That their father's behavior wasn't her fault and that she's just the result of it.
Because Amalia, who's been a rotten spoiled girl at the beginning of S1, coming to finally see her brother for who he is and empathize with her big brother would have been a cathartic end to her own arc.
Seeing these two reconnect would have been a fucking treat.
Especially since Armand was doomed by the narrative to die.
That's what Ankama tried to have before his death btw. They redeemed his bs behavior real fast because they knew that killing him before he had his arc with Amalia would not have any impact if they didn't.
They had to speedrun their new relationship to quickly kill it and give that dramatic end to Armand.
And...
It works but...If they had given Armand more work? It would have been more gut wrenching.
But no, since they didn't have a lot of money to make full seasons, nor the possibility to be certain they would be able to make S4, Ankamahad to prioritize it's plot points. They couldn't slow burn things up.
Because of that, they decided then that the Yumalia ship and Team daddy issue were a priority in the script. Even tho really, they just made the ship the real focus.
And it was fucking bad.
*Sigh*
I - Has Tumblr caused you to stop liking any fandoms, if so, which and why?
...Aaah.
Welp. That'd be the Homestuck fandom for sure.
Okay that deserves a trigger warning. I'll mention quickly harassment and the fact people attempted suicide bc of it here. Just pass the question if that's too much.
Yeah It's not so surprising I suppose. Lot of people ended up hating the fandom.
But Homestuck...Homestuck was pretty much the first visible case (probably not the very first case tho) of a fandom that ended up absolutely burning out it's author.
A trend that is now common place.
A fucking horrible trend if you ask me.
The anon hate was also terrible, and it's no secret.
Some people actually attempted at their own lives because of the harassment.
I remember one such a case where the person survived the attempt and the haters vocally bemoaned the fact they were still alive.
Disgust, disdain, hate...Those words do not even begin to describe the feeling I have for these people.
This one instance was one of the stepping stones that made me completely quit the fandom when the story ended.
It doesn't mean that I hate everything about it tho.
I loved that fandom. I've met wonderful people there and I found my by Bestie thanks to it.
And I loved, LOVED my askblog to bits. It was an important part of my twenties, a time were I didn't have much that made me feel confident in myself.
But being a part of it at the end of the initial story?
It was exhausting.
I'm glad I'm not actively part of it nowadays.
It doesn't mean I don't check on H^2 sometimes, but my attention to it is sporadic at best. And I don't want anything to do with the fandom. Even if it's not the same vibe now.
A - Ships that you currently like a lot. (They don’t have to be OTPs because not everyone has OTPs.) Friendships, pairings, threesomes, etc. are allowed.
Hm. Jax and Ragatha from TADC.
The relationship of these two is a Rubik's cube that makes it hard to pinpoint a label on what they are with each other.
Like yeah, you could put the label of Romance on them if you wanted. And sure, even I ship it, but canonically, it feels much more complicated and more fucked up than that.
I will not go into it here, but I did write an analysis on Jax for the sake of writing my fic.
(which I think ended up burning me out. Whoops.)
I have pages upon pages on him and despite trying to autopsy this motherfucker in different angles, Ragatha always manage to come in the picture.
She's an important part of his current existence, at least until episode 6.
He's shown signs again, and again that he didn't not want a real relationship with anybody. Just something that is surface level, but uh.
When Pomni arrived, every fucking time she interacted with Ragatha, he fucking stood in between, trying to sabotage their relationship.
And he did NOT like Pomni at the beginning. Not one bit.
He's trying to be subtly co-dependent with the doll but it doesn't work bc she did not get the memo.
And that's completely on him.
Anyway, I'm waiting for the YT release of the last episode with a batted breath.
O - Choose a song at random. Which ship or character does it remind you of?
Okay so I'll do one at random and I'll do one I had in mind for eons and never got the occasion to share before. How's that?
(Uh. First time I hear that song)
...Okay maybe it's because we talked about Homestuck earlier, but this one has Ultimate!Dirk vibes.
"You don't know my mind, you don't know my kind Dark necessities are part of my design"? That line is very him imo.
Okay now, the second one...
(God I love Cosmo Sheldrake)
... Ly.
It's many things at once.
The fact we don't know where she comes from (yeah she's a fairy and probably a dream of Polokus but...No other fairy is like her, for now), and where she ran off.
And the song implies a rush, a happy chase of some sort and it just.
Yeah it just clicked to me that it was Her song. It fits her.
That song also finalized the headcanon I had of what could potentially have happened to her too.
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