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Archons who mourned wilted flowers
the characterization of makima from all sides of the fandom is very incorrect and downright infuriating as someone with a deep love for makima.
i genuinely don’t care about the dudebros who call her mommy, not because it’s correct or not egregious, but because they’re few and far between if you’re not engaging with stupid men. what is more frustrating to me is people that call her a sexual predator or pedophile.
she dangled denji’s desires in front of him to manipulate him. she was never going to have any sexual relations with him, and her manipulation + grooming were never sexual. she is incapable of that sort of attraction.
i also dislike the people that characterize her as some wacky cartoonishly evil sadist when her sadism is no more than that of any devil. she does not enjoy killing, she enjoys control. her laughing after killing power was her experiencing the joy of her power, true control, and being swallowed by that ecstasy.
people seem to forget that her life is not dissimilar to reze’s. she was also a child once, and she had always been kept “collared and controlled” by the state. she views people as tools due to the combination of her natural desire for control and also because she has always been a tool with a gun to her head. she never knew equal relationships, all she knew was the government and its destruction.
her treatment of denji, including destruction of his family and security, was for the purpose of drawing out chainsaw man and having him eat the other horsemen and all of the other dangerous devils.
she did get some level of satisfaction in these things, her instincts as the control devil make that immovable, but she also got satisfaction due to her jealousy. seeing denji get a family and withhold equal relationships despite the danger of his hybrid aspect, she feels satisfied that she gets to rip that away and watch him turn empty and motionless, just like herself.
her reasoning for wanting to kill other devils is control is something that is feared due to what it brings. war, famine, death, etc. are all the reasons people feel fear towards control. makima desperately wants equal relationships, a family, to feel the simple joys that people do.
she believes her actions are a necessary evil to ultimately end human suffering. she believes this because her life is government control, and the only way she knows how to achieve this goal is the same techniques used by the corrupt and abusive government. she doesn’t care what it takes because she doesn’t know how, people are pawns to her because that is how her superiors treat humans and makima herself.
despite part of her goal being to “free” mankind of their pain, it is truthfully more selfish than that. you see it too when she cries in the movie theater while two characters hug. she would give anything for a chance at a family, a chance at equality without feeling above others. how can a devil feel above others if she has no leverage to hold? maybe then, and only then, could she be free of her chains.
the overarching theme of chainsaw man is government corruption. makima is a product of that, a victim of the cruelty instilled since she was born. she is the tragic example of what a system turns blank slates into. her stone had been carved for years, and there was no way for her to erase that. this is all she knows, and as such she had to be erased to form a new beginning in the form of nayuta.
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in light of recent varka related jean stuff, while digging into my favorite faction in the game (the hexenzirkel) and maybe my second or third favorite character (alice) i remembered nicole saying alice never mentioned varka, but i would like to believe she talks about jean thoughLMFAO
like in the summer event she was playfully bemoaning the threat of jean’s solitary confinement, i just KNOW she gushes to the mages about how well jean takes care of her little klee despite being in her very early twenties
also, i adore how they haven’t given alice the trait of “how could you put klee in timeout!!!” she knows it’s for klee’s own good… like that is MOTHER as far as genshin goes
tl;dr (alice sniffling over her tea) i owe jeanie a billion dodocos.
I worry what Jean's and Varka's interaction will do to her fandom perception (and her already rampant mischaracterisation). She generally tends to get the short end of the stick, plus Varka is so much more popular than her. I'm probably not gonna have a good time after 6.4.
Varka is popular in part *because* he slacks off his day-to-day work (bc it's framed as carefree and endearing) and Jean is often framed as too serious for the very work everybody depends on her doing (and she needs to be so serious precisely bc of characters like Varka).
There'll be endless "lolol, look at how Jean is scolding him, he is such a silly wholesome guy, he just wants to have fun" commentary.
Because of course nothing is funnier than the young woman, whose work he has been exploiting for years and which has had detrimental effects on her health, having to "mother" her literal boss, who could be her father age-wise. Because he can't be bothered to care about his non-heroic grandmaster responsibilities.
Bonus points for the obligatory solitary confinement jokes (yes, there really are leaks confirming this).
Monstadt is really pushing all kinds of children onto Jean that she didn't ask for and yet everybody expects her to raise them, while making fun of her (and/or subjecting her to the worst mischaracterisations rooted in the reception of this forced "motherhood") at the same time.
It's astonishing that this is how Genshin used to characterise Varka in the past:
Incredibly demanding of Jean but also so neglectful that he sometimes doesn't even thank her.
Viewing Jean as his runner of "odd errands", the kind he can also give to other non-deputy knights.
And now he's presented as so wholesome that the fandom couldn't possibly imagine him acting like that.
I've even seen some comments on how being critical of him over his treatment of Jean is a mischaracterisation and unfair hating because "he did nothing wrong".
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The fact that Lisa will have a stern word on Jean's behalf also means that Jean doesn't defend herself whenever those things happen/doesn't bring them up to him.
Probably because she idolises him so much she doesn't blame him even when she has every right to do so.
Also there's the "focus on the really important things" part.
So running the city is not "the really important things". His expeditions are certainly important but the literal governance of Mondstadt matters just as much.
(They could have said "equally important other things". But they create a clear hierarchy here. And they repeat it in several Nod Krai voice lines too.)
And then there is the line that it falls down to her to "do the right thing" in conjunction with the part that there "may be wisdom to his conduct". As if her having to pick up his work is a moral imperative that just logically/organically follows instead of recognising that the moral imperative lays with Varka because it is his responsibility to do his own work.
Ok, Hoyo.
And no, she is not just doing normal deputy work in those screenshots. She is doing Varka's actual job. In his own words:
And she started to do so when she was still too young.
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this part of cooking event reminded me of this cute funny fic i read a while ago mentioning layla being into grandmas https://archiveofourown.org/works/46302223
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After a lot of problems, I was able to finish drawing this. I really like the HC that Cyno is the last one to find out or notice that Kaveh and Hayi are dating. (btw sorry for disappearing so often, I'm working hard (┬┬﹏┬┬)
I had this idea a loooong time ago except the original punchline was that Alhaitham would go on a rant about why Kaveh is Peak Attractive Man but him simply refusing to elaborate whatsoever is both more in-character AND infinitely funnier
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