#character analysis kinda

[caelanglang]

On Canned Crab

⚠️ blood and guns

a can of self-love 🦀

[the1sammie]

what instantly struck me as my favorite thing about disco elysium (and continues to be especially as I look at fandom content) is how so many of its characters are so insanely filled with depth. it was hard for me to concretely dislike any of the characters (the mercenaries are the only characters I just despise, and the racist lorry driver and gary but even then they got me to laugh at their absurdity). Even when their actions disgusted me or the way they spoke was indecent and cruel, they would do something to remind me of the humanity in them that I love. And the oppisite would happen, too, where the nicest, digestable characters end up rubbing me the wrong way, yet I cannot shake off their inviting persona. They all reflect human nature nearly perfectly imo. If I meet half these characters irl I'd probably hate them or at least dislike them to an extent, but from this third person perspective we have as the gamer I appreciate every detail given to the characters.

[slotmachines-fearofgod]

hi! just have read your fic with cody&soka bonding dynamic(and planning to read more ur stuff), and do im interested, have you any h/c or any thoughts on how canon could represents cody/ahsoka in some arc/case /etc or even other SW's characters you inetersted in

in general, just wanna to hear you and your thoughts, no rules or restrictions . thanks a lot for the things you have done to fandom

with the best wishes, your reader

oh man that's a good question and i have a long answer so here goes:

so cody and ahsoka never actually interact in canon (devastating), however we do see some similarities in their bonds with the people around them. for instance, they're both close with rex (confirmed by rebels and dave filoni in cody's case) and have earned his close confidence and trust. they both look to obi-wan as sort of a pillar of what a jedi should be (confirmed by bad batch season 2 & literally all of clone wars) and they're comfortable within the bounds of their respective relationships with obi-wan. i think, if there ever were an arc in which they got to be together/cody got actual screen time, it would realistically look close to what rex and ahsoka's relationship looks like.

things we canonically know about cody:

he and obi-wan were very close friends due to needing to spend most days together

he and rex were close due to their command positions and assumed training together

he feels comfortable giving up his command to a different person so long as he finds them experienced and ambitious enough to take on the challenge

the last thing he wants is to fight in a war

so obviously a very short list. ahsoka's would be much longer, which is why i'm not writing it, but from a character standpoint that already gives us a pretty solid platform on which to start. cody isn't lenient, ahsoka isn't used to people letting her mess around (too much) so they'd work well together in a battle/training environment. cody isn't so insecure that he feels as though he NEEDS to be in control, and even verbally hands the reins over to rex in the initial domino/rishi moon episode, whereas Ahsoka's character arc is about learning to take control and become confident in her abilities. that gives us a good in for chemistry, as cody is a strategist and can read people fairly accurately. he wouldn't feel threatened by ahsoka because he knows that any command position she assumed would still defer to his station. so now cody is at ease around her. but what makes ahsoka be at ease around him?

my big argument for that one is the aforementioned relationships with rex and obi-wan. these are two people that ahsoka trusts and holds very close, and thus seeing someone else earn the same level of respect as her would automatically lower her hackles so to speak. she knows obi-wan or rex would warn her off if cody was a real danger to her, and she trusts their judgement of character, so upon being introduced to the guy who's obi-wan's closest friend outside of the jedi and rex's Brother (capital B brother because he has a lot of brothers but not a lot of Brothers), she'd probably be eager to meet him. Ahsoka is very excitable in the series because she's a young girl, and it's only in the later seasons that she stops being as excited to meet new people and go new places.

TLDR: the ties to obi-wan and rex would lend ahsoka to viewing cody favorably, whereas ahsoka's discipline and dedication to peace/the jedi order would lower cody's defenses enough to let her in

[the-septic-maniac]

A somewhat analysis of Frank Knight

(some of this is based on his wiki entry and some research because my memory is shit from time to time and this is gonna be all over the place)

I can't be the only one that because of knowing what the hell happened to frank before actually playing or watching pacific bay, you can tell just how jaded he is. like he's joking almost all the time when we are around him. then there are those moments when he gets protective of Amy. I can't help but think that he possibly sees his kids in Amy. especially after meeting her momster, he seems like he is trying to keep Amy away from home because he knows something bad will happen.

Meeting his old partner, Harvey Fitchner, you can tell just how much of a divide has grown between them despite that they had at some point become known as some of the best cops in Pacific Bay. yet looking at both of them, they both just seemly have crumbled into former shells of themselves. Harvey has crumbled because of the case that was solved in Smoke and Mirrors. Frank losing his daughters and kinda dwelling in his own despair.

I almost wonder how much did Frank mask from us. because by joking and being overall sarcastic, he's masking and still very much hurting from the grief of the loss of Laura. This could partly explain why he is so angry and irritable a lot of the time. The easily frightened part kinda makes sense when you look at the fact that he was a soldier. now it was never particularly mentioned what branch he was a part of nor when exactly he served (I personally estimate that if he did actually serve it would've likely been in the mid to late 1980s as he wouldn't have turned 18 til 1981). not to mention he was born in a pretty rough spot during American history no less as he would've been raised during the cold war. possibly fought during it to as anyone who paid attention in history class would know that shit lasted for forever. like til the tail end of 1991.

All in all, Frank at his very core is someone who is a grieving father who just kinda lost his way because of his alcoholism, and no one really from what I have seen is there to pick him up. (sorry for how scattered this was. It was sorta an on-the-spot thing mixed with research :p)

[infinitysgrace]

Sam and Mary: A ramble

This is a ramble about Sam and his mother in seasons 12, and kinda 13. There will probably be spoilers for those two seasons, and any season before it. You have been warned.

I’m writing this because I’ve seen a lot of people aggravated over how the writers handled how they interact with each other in seasons 12 and 13, and how it seemed to be overshadowed by Dean. That’s a fair complaint to have, but I just wanted to ramble about it a bit because to me, at least, it feels more like a case of “it wasn’t less important, it was just less obvious.”

Alright, so firstly, let’s focus on Sam for a bit. I’ve talked before about Sam’s view of his mother, and how that has affected his relationship with the rest of his family, and his view of himself. Mary’s return helped to fill in the 33 year old blank space in his memory where she was supposed to be, but that didn’t erase the affects that it’s had on pretty much his entire existence. That fact alone is going to directly affect how he is going to interact with her now, and is going to create a really big contrast compared to how Dean interacts with her because one of the differences between him, and Dean is that he doesn’t blame her for what happened. He never did. She never promised him that she would keep him safe, she promised Dean that. He never had that to hold on to, and never had that to get angry about, or feel betrayed about like Dean did. The fact that Dean remembers her at all means that, just like Sam said, he “Had a relationship with mom that [Sam] never had.” It’s very likely that he just doesn’t know how to talk to her, or do anything for that matter.

On to Mary... she has a lot of guilt for what happened to her children(specifically Sam in a lot of cases), and I give her a lot of shit for it. (It’s just easy to be angry when it isn’t actually you, y’know?) However, I do at least try to understand that guilt. She feels as though she can’t be forgiven for making the deal because of how everything that’s happened afterwards set her family on the course of something she never wanted for them, and also how it has cursed and tortured her youngest son in ways she can’t even imagine. She feels as though Sam thinks that she can’t be forgiven either, even though that isn’t the case. That’s attributed to the fact that she never had the chance to see how his personality would develop unlike how she’s seen Dean as a child. She has nothing to go on, just like Sam, and therefore makes the assumption that that’s how he thinks of her. Her not understanding the reason for his own awkwardness probably makes that belief stronger, and probably makes it even harder to face him knowing that might be what she’ll be faced with.

I just... I fail to see how a huge heart to heart would really work out between them in season 12, or even season 13 because Sam is just the shell of a 6 month old baby to Mary, and Mary is just the shell surrounding a lifetime of empty nothingness to Sam. That isn’t something that can just be healed in one, or two year’s time. That isn’t something you just easily come back from with heart wrenching moments and anger and angst like with Dean. That’s something you come back from with awkward silence, occasional tears, and the emptiness that comes with missing something you never had on both ends, and not knowing how to handle it when it’s suddenly right in front of you.

[garbage-dono]

Doctor Who 7x02 spoilers

Can we just talk about the fact that the Doctor just freaking KILLS Solomon (I believe his name was Solomon) at the end though?

Because, alright, I didn't like the episode much generally. It seemed really all over the place and...kind of pointless? Not bad, per se, but definitely on the low end of the spectrum for me. But this moment stuck out to me like whoa. Because this is the Doctor, who is all about giving people second chances, who hates guns, who tries to save even his enemies time and time again, and he seems almost...not gleeful, but completely without mercy or remorse when he kills Solomon.

I mean don't get me wrong, the guy was a douchebag. He was the lowest of the low. But that's not the Doctor I know and love. And this is a recurring theme too. Remember in the last episode, he killed all those crazy Daleks without much remorse either. (Yes, it was out of self-defense, but I would have thought he wouldn't be so...cold about taking those lives, even if they are Dalek.)

To me, this reminds me way too much of the Time Lord Victorious. I see the Doctor becoming darker and darker, and since it's usually hidden under all his excited antics in his exterior, it didn't really stick out to me until I saw him kill Solomon. The Doctor didn't NEED to kill Solomon; he could have easily taken Solomon with him before demagnatizing the ship. But he didn't. He left him there and didn't seem at all upset about it.

The Doctor is becoming colder. He doesn't seem to have as much mercy as he did before, doesn't seem as willing to give second chances or to forgo violence. I look at him and feel the same way I did when Ten began to dissolve into the Time Lord Victorious and that's terrifying because we all know what happened to Ten when that happened.

I feel like the Ponds are the only thing keeping him grounded, the only thing anchoring him and keeping him from sinking into something horrible, and so that's why I'm scared of what will happen when they're gone for good because his companions have always been the best of him, so what's going to happen when you take that away?