What did/do you like about Pharah?
Uh, gameplay-wise, I really love characters in shooters who rely on three-dimensional movement techs. Chaining together hover and jump to stay in the air for as long as possible and keep momentum is so satisfying, and picking enemies off from the sky made me feel like a bird of prey. I was a good Pharah main.
Story-wise, there unfortunately isn't much to canonically go off because Pharah is so underutilized and neglected. Her personality's pretty boilerplate "heroic hero" (she's literally inspired by Captain America).
But it's the crumbs/bits and pieces that I really latched onto. Pharah's a confirmed lesbian; her short story with Baptiste implies she harbors a crush on Mercy (fucking thank you.). She's biracial Egyptian/First Nations. She has major mommy issues, having grown up both admiring and resenting Ana. She's the bridge between Old Overwatch, inspired by the idealized heroes who surrounded her childhood, and New Overwatch. She's one of the only inter-generational characters in the cast; someone whose experiences span the gap, which is why I seriously believe Pharah would make a great main character.
There isn't much to go off of, though; she's a very uncomplicated character (she's a soldier for a private military corporation, lol.). But that just means she's a blank slate character, so I've seen fanfic writers run wild and create some really interesting takes on her. My favorite interpretation of her's a dense, herbo gym-bro type (a lot of her liens are about work outs, exercising, and playing sports) who's easily excitable under her seemingly self-serious, armored visage. We see how she tends to gloat and hype herself up when she's on a streak too, so Pharah definitely has a competitive and boastful side under her more professional and militant performance.
Now Mercy? Mercy is a real complex character.
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There's a lot of validity in the idea that older Bakugo is a traumatized pro-hero with major PTSD... but you know what's kinda fucked up to think about? The fact that Bakugo is also a 22-year-old pro-hero with major PTSD even before that, too.
It's almost easy to imagine that things are actually better when he's older (the therapy finally a routine, the trauma long set and on the path to being healed)... and that it's his whole 20s that are spent as a pool of disaster trying to recover from the war(s).
He looks back and barely even remembers being twenty, much less twenty-five or twenty-seven. Barely remembers how little he slept, not at the hands of trying to balance hero work and getting a degree at the same time, but just out of the pure insomnia that came from trying to move on and every nightmare attached.
Hardly ever showering, never shaving (not that he ever grew much of a beard, but the facial hair was definitely there. There's pictures of him on the news with an awkward, grown out haircut and patches on facial hair that make him look positively... immature), barely even eating more than a few protein bars or an energy jelly drink-a day. It's a blur, and his friends are hardly there to pick him up out of it because they're all going through it, too. Somewhat.
It's definitely weird if you meet him during this period. He's not all there, at least, not all of the time. He doesn't really register your interactions, the friendship you extend to him (a younger, or ever older, version of him would've shown you that deep seeded ferocity in response, tried to bite the hand that fed him, even if it were love... but 20s Bakugo... doesn't seem to notice). Even though only one of his eyes is clouded over, the good one never seems to brighten up.
There's definitely moments when the old him shines through: when he's with Deku, when he's in the midst of battle, when he finds out that Todoroki still does a shitty job at chopping scallions. But it's a long time before he's even close to the same, able to step out from underneath the fog of simply surviving and into the sunshine of recovering.
But I think sticking through it with him is worth it.
(It's a weird moment, a happy moment, the first time you realize that Bakugo has changed. That the pouring rain outside hasn't bothered him since he showed up at your apartment. He forgot his umbrella, he's been quite careless ever since the war—wet and shaggy hair frizzed up, cheeks red from cold—but he doesn't seem to mind, with his bare feet up on your coffee table, his eyes gazing out the window. You hand his tea, and instead of gulping it down in one go, letting it burn in his throat, he winces at the heat.
"Tastes like shit," he says, and you laugh because it always does. Just this time, he noticed.)
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might be a hot take but i think even if blitz was about to say sorry at the end of full moon it was already too late? cause stolas was very clearly not in the right emotional headspace for it to really sink in or mean anything at that point.
it was too late way before blitz realised stolas was hurt (and saying sorry in that moment wasn't gonna make stolas' emotions magically reset to neutral)
emotions were running wayyy too high that immediately talking right after the initial conflict/argument was not gonna fix it
(and to clarify not hating either character! very much on the camp of they both fucked up and they need to talk but neither are in the right headspace for that talk just yet)
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Booster Gold never came back in DCeased, so does that mean the future was never saved?
Booster Gold ends up dissipating due to something something future ruined. Ted becomes infected afterward but this little piece of writing isn’t really about him.
And then he appears next to Ted after his crew gets infected. So what does that mean?
I admittedly don’t know much about John Constantine but according to his wiki article he can see ghosts.
So what’s with Booster being there if he “was never born.”
Though that may be an error, so I’m not going to press too hard on it as theory material. (After all, this isn’t like other series I like which I’m more than happy to push on inconsistencies, such as Ninjago.)
And then when everything seemingly went back to normal Booster still didn’t show up.
“Oh maybe he forgot where they were or doesn’t know.” You forget the characterization of Booster at this time in the DC comics world. Only a few years prior his mini series with Ted ended, and he’d still been written as caring a lot about him, even joked about in relation to Ted such as in Jaimes’s comics. Not to mention that one of his most important solo comics revolved around getting Ted back from the dead (albeit it was tied to the 52 saga.) So to think he’d just casually forget after another crisis would be a bit out of character.
Under the cut I talk about Waverider and the solution to DCeased’s major conflict. So be warned.
(Yes, I made the image blurry because it’s pretty gorey and it may upset someone.)
I did not mention Waverider earlier because I don’t know how it would have worked with him. But he gets hit by Zombie! Ted and I presume he also turns into a zombie at some point.
We never see him after his very short time in this issue. So might another part of the future become infected after Damian’s sacrifice? And the sheer nature of the anti-life equation’s antidote would not destroy all specks of it within the entirety of reality. Simply those who were exposed to it, meaning the time frame that it was administered.
So might have Waverider infected some point in the future prior to Booster Gold’s birth or his escape from the future?
I may just be talking nonsense but hey, that’s just a theory, a DC theory!
also apparently Booster’s birthday is right next to mine, which is kinda dope considering he’s my favorite hero
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