#I just love him so very very much

[mymanymerrymuses]

Here's we go I am talking about Kagari. I'm putting this under a read more because he's had a bad life, and I'm likely to say a LOT here so, read it if you want to, it contains some important information about my takes on him as a character. Mostly...it's just me ranting about bad things he went through and why I like him so much.

Here is my biggest thing about Kagari. I have seen people in the fandom say that he's clearly a psychopath, and that makes me very angry. He is definitely NOT a psychopath.

Here's what he is.

-He's curious. Kagari, to me, has always been the kid that would open drawers and snoop through them. Not to steal, just to see what was in there. He would open doors just to see if they were locked. When he's older, isolated, often shut into his flat, it switches up a little. He likes to watch movies with explosions in, and he likes to know how they made those explosions look good. He likes to play video games and find all the way the player can die, just so he knows. He does NOT then kill the player character over and over again because it's funny to watch, he just wants to know the boundaries!

-He's good at his job. Now part of this is his nature, (he DOES think the same way some criminals do, though for him it's mostly his curiousity and nothing malicious), and part of it is how hard he worked when he found out that he could be an enforcer. Kagari was put into isolation when he was FIVE YEARS OLD. He spent his formative years alone, in a cell. Being an enforcer is not a nice job. They get sent out after criminals the police couldn't find, or that seem too dangerous. Being an enforcer means being disposable. The world doesn't care if Kagari gets killed on duty - in fact, the handlers are MEANT to shoot him if he steps out of line. But that is still better than spending the rest of his life in a prison cell. At least as an enforcer, he gets to interact with people. So when he found out that he could get that chance, he worked his ass off to get it, proving he could follow orders flawlessly, and get the work done. And he DOES get the work done. Kagari can and does accurately predict where criminals will be and what they will do.

-He's NICE. ....but, he isn't a pushover. At his core, Kagari is friendly. He's missed out on human interaction for most of his life, and he wants to make up for that. When Akane arrive, Kagari wants to talk to her right away, and he's very open with her when they do talk. When she decides to get to know the enforcers better, he cooks her a lovely meal (which is partly because he hasn't had chance to cook for people and he is proud of his skills, but it's also to be nice), shares wine with her, and they have a good time. He likes to play with the other enforcers, and joke around - extending that to the handlers too - because even if they're technically colleagues, he wants to be friends. But he's not afraid to tell those same people when he thinks they're being dumb. He wants to be friends with Akane, but also tells her he'll hate her if she takes her freedom for granted. That sounds fair to me. He's being a little harsh, but honestly, that's his boundary. He cannot be around people who act like their freedom means nothing, or that making a decision is such a hardship. (Of course, sometimes it IS hard to make decisions, but when Kagari has never been allowed to make ANY choices about his life, it's understandable that he'd be annoyed when people complain about it).

-HE DOESN'T WANT TO HURT PEOPLE. Until he DOES. See, this is where I've seen people talking about Kagari being a psychopath, and it really annoys me. Kagari says himself that he's never wanted to hurt anyone, at all. He has never, once in his life, wanted to commit a crime, especially a violent one. That, nobody can really argue, it's right there, he spells it out very clearly. And also spells out that he's happy the people who made the system that damned him are killing each other. I don't think that's just for some sense of revenge. They took his life. They RUINED it, when he was five years old and totally innocent. They've done that to other people too. He's seen it, he's met some of them. He wants the system gone, because it hurts people. Not because he wants to be free to do whatever evil comes to him. In the first episode he's the one to find the criminal, a man who has kidnapped a woman. I have seen people saying that because Kagari didn't immediately rush in and stop the kidnapper from assaulting his victim, CLEARLY he didn't care at all. He 'wasn't affected by it', so he must be a psychopath.

Except, here's the thing. Kagari, at this point, has been an enforcer for three years. Odds are, he's seen scenarios like this before. He is, at this point, mentally equipped to deal with these things. Like a paramedic arriving on scene to find somebody's been attacked and has major wounds, he can put himself in 'work mode' and deal with it, without any big reactions like yelling or crying about it. Kagari HAS to stay calm, because if he doesn't, very bad things happen. First of all, he could ruin the entire job and they wouldn't actually stop the criminal they're after. Secondly, part of the handlers' job is to keep the enforcers in line. They are literally called HOUNDS, Kagari is HOUND 4, they follow orders and that's that. If they don't, the dominators get turned on them, and they are, at BEST, temporarily paralysed.

And Kagari ASKS if he can stop the assualt. He ASKS if he can shoot the guy (with the dominator, which would have, at that point, paralyse him so he could be taken in and contained safely) and his handler says NO. Kagari doesn't let the assualt continue because he's happy to let it happen. He has to follow orders. He does not have a choice. He WANTS to stop the guy, even if that comes at the cost of hurting him, but he can't. I could keep going, but this is already VERY long so I'm going to wrap it up and say that yes, Kagari could put the skills he's learned as an enforcer to use in committing crimes. But he doesn't want to. He wants to be free. That's it. He wants the freedome to go to the shop and buy what he needs to make nice food. He wants to flirt with cute people and watch action moves. He wants to live in a flat that doesn't have cameras in every room.

And I don't think any of that makes him a bad person, let alone a freaking psychopath.

[watchingwisteria]

listen there really was just something about how in the book, snow’s 3-page descent from hesitant lover boy to deluded psychopath happens entirely in his mind. lucy gray gives him no indication whatsoever that she suspects him, that she’s going to leave or betray him. he’s just sitting quietly in the cabin waiting for her to return when that seed of calculated suspicion, which he has needed to survive the capitol, takes a hold of him and chokes the life out of any goodness left inside him. it really drives home your terror as a reader that “oh my god did he kill her? did she escape? what happened to her? why would he even think that?” in a way that when the movie had to adjust for visualization it lost some of that holy shit this guy has lost it emphasis.

[fellhellion]

mija

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[contactlessdrivethru]

there is something unique and deeply special about monkey d luffy as a protagonist. he’s overwhelmingly ADORED by the fandom. he’s consistently the most or at least top 3 most popular characters in the whole series. peoples takes about him are gushingly positive. and that’s… really uncommon.

a LOT of fandoms i’ve witnessed or been in have a tendency to favor characters other than the main character. especially in anime. the main characters are often written as a blank slate for readers/watchers to project onto, but that makes them not as interesting and so they don’t get the fan attention.

but luffy is so far from that. and he’s ALWAYS been this way. we love him so much. he’s the heart of the story and the heart of the fandom in every single way. and i think that speaks to how well-written he is as a character. he’s fun and charming and complex and interesting and he makes us laugh and cry and cheer and hope and love. he’s able to inspire so much joy in people, both in his world but also in this one. and i think that’s really special. i feel so grateful to have found this story that means so much to me, and i’m so grateful that luffy exists.

[littlelightfish]

He cares very much about his elemental just look at this man

He raised this bubble monster since it was a baby and worries about her getting mixed with other water things... Dad behaviour...

It's like he asks her to come out to fight.

He can't ask her that, he alredy sent her to battle. Is it either them or the quimera and he knows it damn well, that's why he looks at Marcille with something close to pity. He can't ask the undine to stop. He needs, they all need, the monster to be dead.

And then his baby droplet gets obliterated by this monster. He's not recovering up emotionally from this anytime soon. He freezes a few seconds in absolute shock.

"I even find it cute now". His baby is dead. It's gotta be something akin to adopt a stray cat since baby and then he gets run over. He starts tearing up. Look at this man's poor face, he's destroyed.

Here he's mourning the loss of his undine possibly, all sad faced. He is, at the end, the only one that lost someone there (many died but revived, and Falin doesnt count because she's alive). Either that or he managed to, somehow, save a bit of her and put it on the bottle and it's feeling sorry for his elemental or saying sorry.

[chaos-bringer-13]

I've seen a lot of people writing Danny as a space ancient and Dan and Dani as ghosts with moon and sun cores, being sort of parts, versions of Danny and therefore weaker. Now, consider: Dan and Dani are both powerful ghosts with really cool cores and stuff but Danny is just some guy™

Dan, who came from an alternate timeline and is kind of from the future but also not, is Clockwork's apprentice and will eventually become an ancient of time. He probably only agreed to have some lessons with Clockwork to understand better what happened to him, but he enjoys his apprenticeship now.

Dani, with her love of travelling, loves seeing all the different places the world offers to her, and that includes space and different planets and maybe even parallel universes, and she accidentally ends up being an apprentice of the space ancient. For now she's probably a baby ancient of freedom or something like that, but she might become an ancient of space in the future.

We can also have something like Dan having a core of destruction or Dani being the Speed Force if you want it to be dcxdp, or any headcanon of yours about their cool powers.

And then there's Danny. And yeah, everyone knows that he's super powerful, but also he's just some guy.

It can go different routes. Does everyone know that Danny is just Danny? Or do they think that with siblings (well, technically a clone and an alternate version, but whatever) so powerful, he must be even stronger? Is Danny actually something terrifyingly eldritch and ancient and strong, almost a god, but he just doesn't know himself? Or is he just really some guy?

Now, because it's obvious that I have a dcxdp brainrot, have a regular "JL summons/meets a powerful ghost" but its Dan and Dani, and they keep mentioning their original/brother who won a fight against them at some point. The JL is very concerned about Dan and Dani's godlike powers, and they can't imagine what Danny is like. And then they meet him (in his human form), and it's just a young adult in casual clothes, very friendly and helpful, with no evident powers. Imagine the confusion. Imagine Dan and Dani, radiating power, in their eldritch ghost forms, admitting that fighting Danny for real is the dumbest thing to do and not even they would succeed... And then there's Danny is jeans and silly t-shirt, waving shyly.

[tenowls]

bro hes literally just standing there

[turtleinsoup]

@thedawningofthehour

drawing for profile in quicksilver

[gunstellations]

its sonics turn! 👅

[bloodsbane]

dunmeshi ep 11 W: they ended it on the exact shot i was hoping for - in fact, they made it even better. im living and thriving

unfortunate but necessary dunmeshi ep 11 L: they didn't include this part...

[egophiliac]

redesigning my headcanon for Sebek's parents, based on important new information (SCALES)

(you can't see it but they're both wearing crocs)

[bivampir]

it's SO funny that when asked what he had to do to prepare for his role in IWTV Sam Reid says he had to learn how to play the piano, learn to speak French, Italian, and English with a French accent. Bailey read IWTV religiously and added her own comments, and kept an actual fucking journal she wrote entirely as Claudia. meanwhile Jacob Anderson, when asked the same question, just responds with “oh nothing, i was already emo”. icons and legends only

[pbnmj]

what was supposed to just be pavitr and meera jain spiralled into a LOT of spiders in formalwear/red carpet outfits.... most of them referenced off met gala outfits and then adjusted to suit my own tastes LOL

[turtleblogatlast]

I think a lot about Leo standing up for his brothers in the things that really matter to them.

Like- Leo is the one who immediately pushes Mikey and Donnie into finding Raph the second it’s clear that their oldest brother is missing because he knows Raph can’t handle being separated like that.

Leo is the one who stands up for Mikey when Mikey wants to go on a solo mission, actively vouching for him and being the one to convince Raph into letting Mikey go, because being independent and proving himself just as capable of standing on his own two feet as everyone else means so much to Mikey.

And Leo defends Donnie’s honor in particular when his brothers’ intelligence is insulted because Leo is well aware of how important Donnie’s smarts are to him - and how important having those smarts valued and acknowledged is as well.

All this goes right into just how well Leo knows his brothers. For as much as he’ll tease or fight with them, he knows them, and he loves them.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I want it back / I drag its dead weight forward.

[mp100days]

082 - the future is kind