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i also followed for firestorm BUT i do like the birdce :)

it's so funny how 2 of the only 20 firestorm fans on planet earth just happen to have really similar niche jobs and interests outside of that. maybe it's the bird wires in our brains getting crossed that turns us to the path of firestorm or something

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yay yippee yahoo nick is back!!!!

its true

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tell me abt your favorite video game character from anything

Ok, I was going to talk about one character but now it’s two because they both share a space in my thoughts. Also enjoy the rambling of someone who’s bad at explaining stuff.

Spoilers for Portal & Portal 2, and minor character detail spoilers for A Hat in Time.

Firstly there’s GLaDOS from Portal. I like how in Portal 1 she seems like a regular robotic voice guide for the testers (and especially Chell), and even with some of the unethical workplace testing lines she delivers, but never anything to indicate she’s sentient. She can actually call you a horrible person early on in one of the test chambers, but it’s optional so the player can completely miss it.

Then after the tests are over and the player gets rewarded (with fire), her mask slips a bit after the player escapes. Then while continuing to escape, GLaDOS drops all pretenses of ever wanting to help you and starts talking to the player in a “I’m not mad, just disappointed, and also I hate you” kind of way. And it’s wonderful.

Don’t think I need to explain too much about GLaDOS because she is an iconic video game character (or at least I think she is). Portal 2 is where she shines the most, but I also wanted to highlight the first game as well. One of the best things that happens is you teaming up with her in a “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” sort of deal when she gets put in a potato battery and can do literally nothing.

There’s also the sympathetic element with her when it’s revealed she used to be a human named Caroline whose brain was put into a supercomputer because of the dying wishes of her boss (another great performance by JK Simmons but also fuck you Cave Johnson). So a lot of what GLaDOS does, while not morally right (morals? In Aperture Laboratories?), it’s also understandable why she turned out this way.

Also I was never a believer of the “Caroline is Chell’s mom” theory, but now that I’ve grown up and can understand that a lot of Glados’s dialogue can also sound like it’s being said by a bitter ex, it only makes her even funnier in my mind. I’ve said before that Portal 2 is one of my favorite games and one of the main reasons is because of her. Ellen McLain does a great job portraying her and is given some funny lines, as well as singing three of the greatest songs in this game (Still Alive, Turret Opera, and Want You Gone).

Speaking of characters that used to be human and whose voice actor gives a great performance.

I love Snatcher. Glados was my favorite for a while and then he showed up. I think one of the reasons I gravitate towards him more is that I’m generally more interested in ghosts rather than robots. He can also be very intimidating, with him stealing the players soul and straight up killing the player if you refuse to sign his first contract. But also he looks like this:

(this used to be my discord icon for a while)

I like silly goofy character designs, what can I say?

As I said before, Snatcher also has a sympathetic backstory with him once being a prince. Then his lover, Vanessa, locked him up in the basement of her manor when she thought he was cheating on her (he wasn’t), then everyone in the kingdom died, including him, then in between all that he became known as The Snatcher and now rules Subcon Forest.

This wasn’t even supposed to be his backstory, but it was after the character it was made for (never forget Moonjumper) was cut from the final version of the game. This backstory isn’t important overall to the main game as Subcon Forest is only part of the overall game (I have not played the Vanessa’s Curse DLC where I know it’s brought up again) but even without the backstory I would’ve considered him my favorite character of all time. He’s funny, he’s goofy looking, he’s a “soon-deh-ray” (as his steam trading card calls him), and he’s amazing. (Also 'Your Contract Has Expired' is a great track).

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12, 16, and 19 for the comic salt ask game?

12. Are there any comics you've read knowing they're bad and why?

i knew that byrne's doom patrol run was widely panned before i read it but i'm such a completionist that i still read all the issues and hated every second. cry for justice i read knowing it was dogshit because i needed to see the shade moments and the mikaal stuff (bad, by the way). ummm i kept going back for more with johns' latest and presumably final JSA run, also for completionism's sake. lol

16. How has DC/Marvel/publishing company butchered a character that's not your fave?

what's going on with magik right now is fucking nauseating and i think that everyone involved with it should be fired. massive cw for sexual assault and sexual violence if you look it up, i'm not sure if you're an x-men reader (i'm not but i have friends who are). there are certainly other examples but that one is fresh in my mind.

19. Rant about a change they made to a character of your choice.

MARTIN STEIN EVIL RETCON I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU. ronnie has always been martin's conscience and the formation of firestorm is at its core a COOPERATION and LOVE. martin is kind of an insane freak but he's not EVIL and he GENUINELY LOVES RONNIE AND JASON AND LORRAINE AND MIKHAIL SO MUCH. WITH ALL HIS HEART. THAT IS THE CORE OF FIRESTORM. BOIL GEOFF JOHNS IN OIL NOW

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so comfy cozy

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hands you a great blue heron that randomly showed up to my volunteer job today

you got any fish for him or is it just for the BOURGEOISIE patients. inquiring heron minds want to know

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what are these people yapping about even. anyways here's another cat for you

plays bongos on them