mutuals send me a “🌹” and i’ll give you a compliment!
Scrolling through your blog always calms me down! Your posts about your f/os are always so sweet and you have such a nice aesthetic. It's also super inspiring to see other black selfshippers in the community, and I'd definitely love to talk to you more.
Okay so I read your tags and uh wtf that is super sad? I was just thinking the whole time like "damn he's just a really gifted support hero" like from bnha? While "less offensive based" heroes aren't put on high pedestals, they at least have a place at UA and all that. He really could've been like the Edna of contraptions to help supers like rocket boots or even things like the incredi-car (I think that's what it's called?). But instead?? Everyone just said Fuck That?? (sunnyships)
Yeah, the narrative is really, really fucked up in terms of how it treats Buddy. While the book adaptations and spinoffs aren’t technically canon, it’s still very telling that they see Buddy’s power as an over dependance on technology, rather than the thing that makes him great and worthy of recognition. To make it worse, the actual things he did that are legitimate reasons why he can’t be a real superhero are treated as secondary to the fact that he doesn’t have powers.
In terms of how the actual movie treats it, I’m a bit more accepting because the early interactions between Bob and Buddy are essentially the result of a misunderstanding, but at the same time, Bob had to have caught Buddy after he flew off with the bomb on his cape in order to take him to the police and Bob didn’t take that oppurtinity to explain to Buddy, a child that he knew idolized him, that the issue was that Buddy is too young to be fighting crime, and not that he was rejected because he didn’t have powers.
There is also nothing to suggest that Buddy actually knew there was a bomb on his cape (its unlikely he didn’t know too, but he also wasn’t panicking because of the bomb; he was panicking because Bob was holding onto his cape.) So with that information in mind lemme show you how this plays out from Buddy’s PoV:
Buddy is a kid who is excited to help his idol, but because he’s a kid, it’s understandable that he
1. Is impressionable, espeically because he’s with his idol
2. Does not fully understand what he’s doing
Yet Bob, who doesn’t really have any excuse for not knowing these things, is rude and dismissive of him not once, but twice, including in a scene where Buddy clearly states something that he couldn’t have implied directly from Bob (“not every super has powers you know”) meaning that Buddy’s self doubt/inferiority complex is already an issue that he’s facing. Then, because Buddy probably did not know about the bomb, he probably saw Bob trying to get the bomb off his cape as Bob actively trying to stop him from going to get help in order to prove himself, and instead he gets taken to the police with no explanation. While it’s true that we do not see any conversation that Buddy and Bob may have had between the time that Bob found him and took him to the police, the fact that Buddy, as Syndrome still believes that Bob rejected him because he didn’t have powers (“and I did it all without any of your precious gifts”), proves that that conversation didn’t happen, or at least Bob couldn’t convince him that that wasn’t the case. Also Buddy is a person who became a villain because he couldn’t be a hero. That’s a pretty blatent case of “bad attention is better than no attention,” so like, here’s a kid who probably didn’t get the proper attention he need growing up, and then that happens.
So tl;dr:
So yes, the implications of that movie really does do a great disservice to him. But ya know, its fine because he doesn’t have powers apparently.
I dislike Glynda less bcs anything she’s done and more for what she didn’t do. Meaning I don’t care for her bcs she’s just kinda a nothing character to me. The most importance to the story she had was her and Ruby meeting at the very beginning, and since then it’s mainly felt like she exists to fill space. You could cut out her character after that first episode and very little would change in what happens through the show. Maybe she’ll get more to do in future volumes, but as is, I really just don’t get the appeal beyond her being moderately attractive
I do however appreciate her for giving me an idea of what it’d like for James to flirt with me. So thank you to Glynda for that lol
4. If you could put this character in any other media, be it a book, a movie, anything, what would you put them in?
I’ll say something that actually utilizes her as a character with an active role in the story lol
Imma be real with ya and say that I don't care for DR1 or V3 all that much. I never connected with any of the characters enough to care about them much except for maybe Kaito and even then thats only one person. Also, the "asshole" character who fucks everything up for their own gain/own way to end the game is one of the worst tropes in the series and I find the characters in those roles extremely annoying.
Also also: let the "weirdly designed" characters live, Kodaka you coward