all my favourite characters are just me seeing them and going "damn you sure do clean up well but I'd much rather see you grinning with blood between your teeth"
qfoolish is definitely one of the characters of all time. if i had that same relative lack of awareness then i, too, would ask my friends for morality check-ins... i mean, more often than i already do. like, sure, making sure that something you want to do isn't irredeemably evil before you do it is a good thing; however, i there maybe should have come a point -- around two thousand years ago, if not earlier -- where he might have realised that, if he has to ask, he could err on assuming that whatever think he wants to do is, probably, a bad thing to do. i'm bringing this up because i've only been on this earth for twenty-[cough] years and i've managed to pick up on that one. you'd think a builder would be better at pattern recognition, you know? but no, instead he's out there free-balling "can i do this to you" with every person individually instead of generalizing "maybe this is a bad thing to do." it's an interesting way to approach a non-human view on morality, and i like that he has committed to this roleplaying decision even when it causes friction or misunderstandings with other islanders.
I can't write it due to lack of skill but a hilson Hannibal AU where Wilson is the one engineering fucked up cases to provide House with enrichment while still trying to be his coscience is not that big of a stretch as it seems
Monsterfucker mutuals and Hellraiser mutuals we need to absorb and discuss The Emperor situation in Baldur's Gate 3. I have mixed feelings so far from the spoilers I have, but then I do not have direct experience playing the game. May or may not play it for myself at some point, but I want the meta analysis on this one more than I want to play it tbh.
Watcher pearl.... the angst of watcher pearl... evo -> es1 -> hcs8.... armageddon curse... do you think she's always looking to the sky? Do you think Pearlescent Moon thought hcs8 was finally making explicit it wss her fault? How many times can the world end around you before you blame yourself-
Me: Shadow Demon Unicron Spawn Random is totally a vibe, especially because of the bitch black face and completely lit up eyes and mouth, I should design how it looks in the headspace-
Also me, contemplating the horrifying idea of designing not 1, not 2, but 5 different cybertronian alter designs, including the 2 triple changers based on previous transformers media characters Octane and Astrotrain:
i’m thinking about how seraphina learned and is executing the most like. 5D level of strategy when it comes to both the physical and social structure of living things, and how each attribute has chain reactions when one living thing contact with other. for example, this animal is built for brute strength. this will be an advantage in this environment for this reason. however, brute strength would be its greatest weakness in this other environment. take a concept like that, and multiply it by a billion billions when you consider how many living things are on earth, not to mention higher intelligence beings like humans that also have a social component.
seraphina was alone for so long that she has very little lived experience of these kinds of nuances. only baseline survival ones, i.e., i am thin and weak, but i am fast, therefore i can win in a battle of dexterity. this puzzle of learning anything else has been, and will continue to be, something of great fascination in her passion for creation.
but she’s also so traumatized that analyzing and creating is her way of holding it all at arm’s length. yes, she knows how social cues work on a scientific level. no, she cannot and will not apply them to herself, because in her mind all that means is scrabbling and fighting her way to just survive. she will be brute strength when she needs to be. she will be quiet and soft when she needs to be. but she never thinks about what she wants to be outside of the context of ‘i need to survive and stay alive’.
the closest answer we canonically have is freedom, a clean slate. but even then, i think that answer was more ‘i’ve been so hurt physically and mentally for so long that i can’t handle anything or anyone saying a god damn word to me. i’m going to go wild and i’m going to stay that way.’
tl;dr babygirl hyperanalyzing social and ecological traits like pieces on a chessboard does not preclude you from having to deal with your own !!!
i really do love the concept of 'blue and orange morality' in fiction because it's like "we can't decide if what you did was good or evil but it was definitely weird so we made up a label for it" bro that's just what it's like being a neurodivergent person in real life
So! Ellie was raised in a Lab by a Genuine Bonefied Supervillain. She was raised to be a Villain as well, so her Moral Conpass is a little skewed.
Sure she *mostly* knows what is right and wrong from Danny's quick lesson before her Adventure around the Country, but she still has trouble separating what is moral and what is not from time to time.
So it's really no surprise that the moment she left Amity Park she somehow ended up being branded a Villain.
Look, it's not her fault she didn't know not to attack the flying guy in Blue Spandex when he approached her! One of Danny's biggest warnings shen she left had been Stranger Danger! She did what any 12 year old girl would have done when approached by a strange Older Man!
Its also not her fault that her powers (being Magic based), managed to affect him! She didn't even use her full power! (She maybe should have kicked him in a different place tho...she hopes he wasn't planning on having kids...)
So she did what her instincts told her to do. She took any money he had on him and ran the hell away!
It wasn't until she was 2 cities over when she saw a newspaper titled, "Little Villain Girl Mugs Superman in Broad Daylight!", that she realized she may have screwed up...
After that, she really had no excuse.
She knew that she probably shouldn't have kept Mugging the Heroes who approached her, but she wasn't a Fenton for nothing! Her Family Motto had always been "Commit to the Bit", and she was gonna stick to it!
So when the Fast Red Guy tried to tie her up, she phased off all his clothes and took off with his money (not the mask, she knew enough not to take that off)
And when the Grumpy Bat Guy tried to corner her with some weird papers he pulled out of his Belt, she just distracted him while her clone picked his pockets and made off with the wheels of his Car. That one made her a pretty penny!
The flying Green Guy was fun, his attacks were just throwing Ghost Candy (pure willpower) at her. He did stop doing do after she nicked his fancy talking Ring however, but it was fun while it lasted
Then she came across a Orange Fish Guy, and he actually seemed nice enough. But she was committing to the Bit, so she took the fancy Trident he had and sold it at a nearby Pawn Shop for some extra cash. He would probably be able to find it, that's why she chose a nearby location.
All in All, her Adventure had been really fun! So she decided to visit Amity Park again to tell Danny all about it!
...
Aquaman walked into the meeting room of the Watchtower, a very frustrated look in his eye.
Barry spoke up first, "Oh! I know that look in your eye! She got to you too didn't she!"
Arthur just glared at Barry for a second before walking over to his Chair, sitting down with a thump. "She is certainly a tricky child."
"What did she take this time?" Clark asked.
"..mttrident..." Arthur grumbled out quickly.
"What was that?" Asked Barry with a twinkle in his eye. He heard it, but he wanted everybody else to know.
"She took my trident, Okay!" Arthur shouted out.
"I feel ya man." Responded Hal, "At least with me she threw it back at me when she realized it wasn't making 'candy' anymore. What did she do with yours?"
"She sold it at a Pawn Shop!" Arthus yelled in frustration, "She managed to steal one of the most Powerful Magical Weapons in the world, the Symbol of the entire Atalantean Royal Bloodline, and she sold it and a Pawn Shop!"
"...how much did she get for it?" Asked Hal.
At this, Aquaman just collapsed to the table and groaned.
...
Alternatively she could have just kept all those things, and gradually built up a collection of all the JLA's most treasured possessions.
She has Supermans Wallet, not very important to him but it was her first mugging
She has Batmans Utility Belt (trackers removed) along with his Tires
She took Flashes Costume Ring (his civilian clothes still stuck inside)
She took Green Lanterns ring as well, but unfortunately it managed to escape after a few days. It was feisty.
And her crowning Jewel is the Trident she took from Aquaman.
(She avoided WW, cause she likes her too much to steal anything from her)