Ik this clip isn't 1 to 1 with the context but this is the genral vibe of the II tag rn I can't explain it but I keep on reading all the posts in sterotypical shounen main character voice whose loosing to the big bad guy about to loose all hope before he uses he realizes he can use the power of friendship idk is this too specifc
pencil and match would not be the salt and pepper of bfdi they would be the nickel/baseball of bfdi
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the alliance arc strikers striking similarity to the armless alliance arc
of course it isn't a one too one, due to multiple aspects such as viewer vs character voting (and the writing in general)
However the arcs due strike a resemblance to each other
A alliance which has:
A "asshole"(not aggressively a asshole in pencil's case but still) who gets off scot free due to their established role(pencil being the leader, nickel having ties with baseball)(by asshole I mean like a character who just turns into a worse person during the arc)
An enabler whose too emotionally connected to the asshole to criticize them and ends up acting like them/in support of them (match and baseball)
A character who enjoyed being in the alliance at some point but decided to stand up for themselves/a friend (bubble and suitcase)
A character who has a negative relationship with the asshole and the enabler (supporting the "3rd good og member character") (I personally give this role to fanny, because ice cube represents a whole different aspect of the freesmarts arc yada... but for sake of argument you could say Balloon is if Fanny and Ice Cube mixed and were less negative/vengeful)
Of course with the alliance/freesmarts you have more members and more dynamics etc.
and the writing in the later in the show isn't a one too one yada yada
I know salt and pepper have a kind of similar thing on a surface level to match and Pencil, but they've got one key difference
Through all of II Pepper and Salt mostly have themselves
whilst Pencil and Match have a full ASS alliance which ALWAYS included bubble from the default
thank you for listening to this long ramble :)
(ps not directed at ANYONE who has made match and pencil salt and pepper in their au! this is just a personally opinion I have due to the fact I really love the alliance in bfdi and pour a lot into analizyng them, it's just a personal ick lol)
I don't know why but Tumblr Payjay is soo good man.... The specific breed of Payjay on Tumblr is so cute. It's like their both tired men who want to get everything over with. Idk why but when I see a payjay post on tumblr I feel haipper then when I would see it on let's say tiktok
my personal roman empire (or one of my 100 roman empires), is the fact the bfdi community specfically has this issue of dumbing down dynamics beetween characters to "aw so wholesome"
People gravitiate to one specfic moment in their dynamic and then completey ignore the suddle changes in beetween them
(cough cough matchil, peneraser, tengolf)
soo many people also ignore the less suddle characteristchs of characters and dumb them down to their main trait/traits
(coguh coguh people saying fanny got so much better after tpot 7 as if her being a good friend/having a sense of justice wasn't a part of her character since like bfb)
and also the way certian fans just ignore the previous seasons
I don't like the fact people just act like bfdi is the simple and silly main show that's never had any shifts in characters/arcs/themes. I'm not trying to say it's fucking idk hamlet but it still annoys me poeple just see it as that.
