#what. a. waste. potential!

[lady-iskra]

Imagine those scenes in live action with real actors and the characters aged up:

Sure, in OG canon the vision was about Aang finding his perfect earthbending teacher, and you could argue there was nothing more to it. However, if someone claims that a vision of the person you're supposed to meet could never be romance-coded, not even with aged-up LA actors... ahem... I mean:

Imagine Miya Cech instead of Zendaya, it would totally look similar to Paul's dream visions in Dune. Gosh, those parallels that are already there with OG ATLA, I LOVE it!

[curliiwurlii]

POV: You saved Dogday and you both made it to Safe Haven and he got to reunite with Doey (and to Doey's terror, he came back in HORRIBLE shape)

[lotus-pear]

free will is drawing ur two favorite characters together and making them gay

[minnobyy]

side order doodle! based on the first trailer and concept arts from famitsu

i really liked the brown hair color that agent 8 had and the long tentacles that was in the concept art! i really wished we had a long hair style for our octolings 😭

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

finally at that age where i'm thinking i should get a tattoo. not bc i feel strongly about it, just seems like a waste not to. i've got so much skin i'm not using

[bowl-of-fruit-loops]

god, bodhi rook really is what star wars is all about contained in a single character. it’s about hope. it’s about doing what’s right even when it isn’t easy, even when it’s the hardest and scariest thing you’ve ever done. it’s about how it’s never too late to be a better version of yourself and that sometimes all you need is someone to believe you can be good.

[ho-ii]

Shawn Hatosy as Charlie Reid in Chicago P.D | S12 - E22.

[idfkwhat-imdoing]

I really hate seeing DC continuing to push this “doomed from the start ” angle on Jason Todd. I feel like they’re missing the inherent tragedy of his character in that he was condemned by the court of public opinion & killed for meta reasons beyond his control - not because his character was written as inherently rash & violent.

Like his story arc becomes far more complex and interesting when you frame it as him being maybe a little rough around the edges but generally kind as a child/teen (who lashes out sometimes bc that’s what children & teens do). Who then dies an absolutely horrific death due to the betrayal of someone who should’ve protected him. And then this kid gets resurrected and you can now explore how the circumstances of his death fundamentally changed him as a person, and how that impacted his views on both the world and those who he was close with prior to dying. It opens up a world for him to be angry and confused post-resurrection, to lash out at those who he feels should’ve done more (bc he isn’t omniscient and doesn’t know what happened when he wasn’t there). But it also gives dimension to his character that allows for growth & healing after all of the tragedy. Maybe he relearns the kindness he had as a child, maybe he learns to forgive and forget and rejoins the bats, or maybe the trauma was too much and he stays positioned as some kind of villain/antihero, but at least with this there are some options for where his character might go and have permanent growth.

Instead it feels like we keep getting force fed this narrative that he’s this violent & impulsive kid that gets killed because he’s violent & impulsive & then comes back violent & impulsive (but only when convenient for the story otherwise he’s friendly with bats trust us). It stagnates his character & is why he keeps being written as having the same boring conflict with Bruce & co. over and over and over again.

[sleepyvib-es]

tbh all i wanted from hoo was more developed friendships

[uniworu]

under your spell 🪄♥️

[somewhereincairparavel]

oxygen is the core of our body and jason grace had the ability to control and regulate them, and not ONCE was it brought up in the books.

[blueskittlesart]

in the nicest and most non-confrontational way possible. i feel like some of you think that anything that isn't directly openly spelled out for you within a story is "missed potential" or "unexplored." like. sometimes there are implied narratives. sometimes the point is that you as the reader are supposed to think and draw your own conclusions and participate in the story. the writers not directly spelling every little detail out for you doesn't mean that the story is poorly written or missed its own plot details somehow. PLEASE.

[earwig5]

it’s kind of crazy that both fallout new Vegas and fallout 4 have the same driving force for the first half of the narrative (find the guy who wronged you and make him pay) but Benny is so much more memorable and narratively interesting than Kellogg.

It’s a matter of a strong character foil versus a weak one, in my opinion.

Benny and the courier are very much alike. They are both ambitious people who are willing to do anything possible to stack the odds in their favour. Honestly, Benny and the courier are the same card, reversed.

The Sole Survivor and Kellogg are also intended to be character foils. The game tries to convince us of this with the scenes in Kellogg’s mind, where we see that he ‘isn’t so different’ from our protagonist after all. But we don’t know anything about Kellogg other than his backstory. How can he parallel the protagonist if we don’t know which traits he has? Which traits the two of them share?

(As a side note, I wish Fallout 4 had touched way more on the ‘Man/Woman Out of Time’ thing. The protagonist being frozen in the past + Kellogg being functionally immortal would’ve been really cool to explore! Especially in the context of grief!)

In the end, I think the reason Benny is a more powerful character foil is that he doesn’t disappear from the world when you kill him. The chairmen can mourn him, House will comment on it, and even NPCs across the Mojave will talk about Benny’s death!

In Kellogg’s case, the protagonist is basically the only person who knows he even existed! Once he’s dead HE’s DEAD! He disappears completely from the narrative! As soon as you leave fort Hagen, the game doesn’t bother looking back.

that’s why Benny is a more haunting force for new Vegas; particularly an independent courier. You are Benny’s legacy because you are what he leaves behind whether he likes it or not. People remember him as the couriers victim. Meanwhile, nobody remembers Kellogg at all. The memory of who Kellogg was dies with you, and you can choose to forget him.

[fandomluver-101]

What I wanted from the Vander and Silco flashbacks was subversion and heartbreak.

I wanted younger Silco to be fairly peaceful, someone focused on building up resources and separating Zaun from Piltover with minimal casualties on their end. I wanted him to be someone who says "wait, bid your time, don't push until your ready" type.

I wanted younger Vander to be hotheaded, impatient, someone focused on immediate action and immediate results. Someone who says "don't wait, act, do now rather than later" type.

I wanted Vi and Jinx meeting someone who was part of the failed rebellion while trying to help Warwick-Vander. I wanted Vi to be forced to recognize that Vander wasn't always a good person and Silco wasn't always a bad person. I wanted Jinx to accept that Silco became a bad person and so did she, but people change and so could she.

I wanted a flashback where Vander tries to get rid of Silco because despite being the "Hound,' Silco is the one with the leash and is the one people follow. I wanted Vander, the bigger "brother" to take leadership by force after years of looking up to Silco and growing disillusioned by the constant "wait, we're not ready." And the fail spectacularly and see all the misery he wrought and would continue to contribute to - because the aftermath of failed uprisings involve way more death than the ones directly involved.

Imagine Vander trying to become more like Silco. Patient, contemplative, community focused. And not truly hitting the mark because he still doesn't understand that patience and pacifism aren't the same thing - the goal was war, but with preparation. Acknowledge Vander's failures and shortcomings as a leader, have him compare himself and be compared by others to what Silco once was.

Silco built the Lanes so people had a safe place. Silco owned the Last Drop and funded the rebel group through it. Silco led a rebellion in the mines. Silco got them breathers or plants to clean the air. Silco never worked with Enforcers. Silco never let a death be in vain.

I especially wanted Warwick/Vander to struggle with his past while coming back to himself. An episode just of this and nothing else, tied together by the chain of violence building up to a proper war between Zaun and Piltover with Silco's voice in Jinx's head encouraging her to become Zaun's champion. It would've been a lot better than what we got.

Making it boil down to Felicia's death just sours it all. Vander adopting random children he orphaned and changing because of HIS failure was interesting characterization. It being for his close friend's children is major downgrade. Him trying to kill his other friend because of it and NOT for a greater reason is straight trash.

Seriously, no hate to Felicia, but her being part of the friendship was pointless. How do the kids not know who Silco is if she was so close with them? Her being someone they knew through their rebel group would've been fine, but so close as depicted and yet no ties to the story otherwise? Her death being Vander's reason for trying to kill Silco? Dude claims the events on the bridge changed him - but he still ends up being a violent monster betraying Silco.

[pali-and-proud]

Every character in Cb is actually experiencing such profound levels of loneliness and isolation but for completely different reasons. It might be all your friends preparing for college and excitedly planning out trips and discussing majors, and it might be struggling with befriending kids your age, and it might be with feeling ignored and unseen with your own parents, and it might be with your wife's passing, and it might be being isolated from your siblings and unsure how to reconnect, and it might be being hospital-bound and away from your son, and it might be whatever tf is happening with the goth one. punko oh punko you and your ability to make me want to hug every person you draw

[beargyufairy]

They told me all of my cages were mental

So I got wasted like all my potential

And my words shoot to kill when I'm mad

I have a lot of regrets about that