accidentally calling your teacher dad except he's actually your dad so nobody thinks it's a big deal but you still feel like you just called your teacher dad in front of all your friends and they won't think you're cool anymore even though you're pushing 30 and none of your friends think you're cool anyway.
No Yiga can resist the call of "Glory to Master Kohga," its just instinct
[ID: A four panel comic of Impa and Dorian from Tears of the Kingdom. Impa wears her updated Tears of the Kingdom outfit with a large, straw hat strips of fabric hanging down on the sides. In the first panel, she's lifting her hat and holding her walking staff, saying "Welp, I'm off." She then walks by Dorian, standing guard at the foot of the stairs of her house. "Farewell, Lady Impa," he says to her as she passes. "Bye-bye. Take care of Paya for me," Impa replies, not looking up as she passes. "Glory to Master Kohga," she adds. "Glory to Master Ko--" Dorian begins but stops himself. In the next panel they've both stopped, Dorian's eyes wide as Impa silently looks at him. In the fourth panel there's a close-up of Impa's face, smiling devilishly and ominously lit from the side. Dorian, in the background, is drawn more cartoony, looking caught. \end ID.]
So I know we here at Startrekfandom love that "came back wrong but from the pov of the wrong" thing and apply it to many different characters and canon situations and I am far from trying to complain about it (I'm "came out wrong" trope myself so I was always gonna obsess over it) but having recently watched a very important episode (you'll know which one) for the first time I think there's a character who hits both tropes mentioned but llike, intertwined, opposite and subverted, and whom I wanna talk about.
Julian Bashir.
From his parents' pov he's "came out wrong but we got him help and he came back better" while from his own pov it's "came out 'insufficient', was destroyed for it, came back wrong and only later slowly came to terms with his new self tho never the process (justifiably so)" and it's heartbreaking because in a way, he's right! Jules Bashir died! His parents had an intellectually disabled child and decided to eugenics him! Julian is not the person he used to be and while I do love the person he is now, that doesn't bring back who he was! Part of me wishes we could've gotten to see Jules at least once and part of me hopes we never do because my heart would shatter.
This isn't a good comparison but nonetheless one I can't help drawing: it's giving similar vibes to anti-vaxxers. "I'd rather risk having a child who is dead than one who's autistic". Obviously this doesn't map over since Julian is still autistic and the procedure his parents subjected him to specifically targeted his intellectual disability and if any folks with id wanna comment on this I definitely recommend you listen to them over me, but it's a similarity I, as an autistic who has encountered anti-vaxxers again and again, can't help but point out. "Give me a normal child or give them death."
This may have been written about already but there needs to be stories about teenage Julian (after finding out and rediscovering who he was) practicing some good ol' recognition of the self through media. I need to hear about how he would encounter a story about someone who came back wrong (I'm gonna assume there's plenty of "wrong" pov stories floating around by the 24th century) and absolutely weep. I need to see Julian mourning Jules, taking years and years to process his feelings, experiencing guilt about how he, the imposter, didn't deserve to live Jules' life.
Came back wrong from the returned's pov but it wasn't an accident. It was done to you deliberately by the people who claim to love you. And now you are here, piloting the corpse of your predecessor.
I always think it’s a shame how little Finn and Simon funney silley content there is considering how funny it would be for Simon to lift the curse and then deal with the fact that he’s been calling Finn his best friend for like five years. Every time Finn sees him he’s like hi Simon ^_^ and Simon deals with like half a decade’s worth of memories of alternately knitting handmade sweaters for/getting into fist fights with this child flashing before his eyes before he manages to push out a “hey Finn” through gritted teeth
i think my official take on charlie and alastor's dynamic is that i don't particularly care for it as a ship (LOVE some of the art though), BUT i do think their relationship is going to be one of the most interesting things about the show, and definitely MY favorite part. something about the sunshine princess who's actually SUPREMELY terrifyingly powerful and the equally upbeat and ever-delighted yet equally terrifyingly powerful demon who is at the COMPLETE OPPOSITE of the morality spectrum is one that is sooooooo good. i need them to be best friends SO BADLY
i watched a bit of ep12 of tlovm in japanese dub just to see how percy's anime boy madness translates back over to what it was directly influenced by (x) and my verdict is that Of course no one can measure up to taliesin screaming into the mic like he is actually watching his family being killed in front of him (much less in a different language) However th delivery of the "do you know how much that cost?!?" line . is So funny