thoughts and feelings on tottmnt bishop? (i feel like you’ve mentioned it before but i can’t remember for sure dhshdhsh)
so here's the thing I think maybe because of my fixation on the 03 show or maybe because i'm getting old(ish) or something, Tales didn't quite catch my attention as a whole. It's good but I concluded it might not be for me.
that being said, I am OBSESSED WITH HER. I HAVE AN ENTIRE FOLDER OF SCREENSHOTS THAT'S JUST HER. LOOK:
First of all. OH MY GODDDD I LOVE WHEN SHE GOES FERAL. OUGHHHHHHHHH BROOOOO. World's most beautiful woman. The Mutant Mayhem / tottmnt artstyle lets her shine aaaall the time in such wonderful ways. This is an old woman who very quickly spirals into being unhinged and it shows in what she looks like, All Of the Time. It's wonderful!!
Second of all I loooove her design and backstory. I think it's awesome that we're keeping the part where Bishop has to build themselves up from nothing and it feels like nobody is in their corner, but I also love that Josefina has very honorable reasons for her ambition - she is doing all this in honor of her sister, trying to build a better world for people like Elena and her.
And, tragically, she has to rely on people richer than her, who don't have a personal reason to care. She's compelling because she's struggling through a very relatable experience of being a passionate person trying to have their voice heard. And if such ambitions and passions got literally stomped on in one fell swoop, would you not also see red? Would you not also be bitter?
(bonus that's not visible here but the photo said "you're gonna change the world, sis!" before it got damaged)
PLUS. I love the details we get about her and all the pieces that tie her to her predecessors. look at these boards!
PGA logo reference in top right. Does this imply she was working on something akin to the Pan-Galactic Alliance? Surely couldn't have been on the intergalactic scale of Fast Forward though, right?? So one has to wonder what that's about and why some of it seems to be scribbled over now. did plans for world peace fall through when mutants ruined her life?
manic scribbling over blueprints as she starts getting careless, fervent, eager to exact revenge (contrasted with her first prototype, built to help people, calm, collected, neat)
notes on mutant sightings
classic red string
"for Elena" stapled to the board, what if I cry
"heroes" scribbled over and rewritten to say "MONSTERS"
"speech ability - NO!" - because she gave the robots her dead sister's voice. when the robots eventually turn against her, they speak to her in her dead sister's voice. ultimate fucking haunting hubris
"Robocop? But no human all robot! Genius!" - note based on an idea Rod gives her which is hilarious. she hates him and he's so useless but she will take a good idea wherever she can.
I love her dynamic with Rod SO MUCH
HE SUCKS! BOTH OF THEM SUCK!! Bishop is extremely smart and also trying to do her evil plans and meanwhile Rod is like "you seem like a Dua Lipa girlie"
the contrast of Rod's oblivious entitlement and Bishop's constant struggle to have a voice and opportunity drives me crazy
In fact, this duo compelled me so much I wrote a fic about them! It's pre-show, it's from Josefina's POV, it has five thousand words and I wrote it in two days. You all should read it and tell me how hilarious and correct I am about everything :)
Anyways, safe to say I think that I care about Tales Bishop deeply. She's cool, she's beautiful, I really liked that she seemingly regretted her actions but then once enabled by the EPF she immediately dropped back into villain mode, and I really hope she shows up again. My wife <3333
