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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WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY TOOK TWO WARDENS AS PRISONERS?!? And what happened afterwards?!?
Kamado saw them as an imediate threat. Ingo and Iscan arrived looking to check on the people of Jubilife and Akari (having not seen either leader as they were both busy doing damage control with the other wardens who are in no condition to be doing much of anything)
Kamado has more or less seen the wardens as a threat since before they first landed in Hisui and has been making contingencies ever since. When they confronted him upon hearing about what had happened he put those contingencies into action upon them.
The cuffs put upon them having a mix of different types of symbols meant to seel away ghosts. Symbols both Hisuian and other (it seems these sorts of things canonically work in the pokemon world at least to some degree) This leaves Ingo and Iscan unable to just phase out of their shackles, and unable to break them as they are welded shut not just locked.
Even then Iscan is more on his own in any attempts to escape. Ingo being more ghost than he should be he is more negatively impacted by the shackles than Iscan. He's rendered practically paralyzed.
Kamado has no intention of keeping them forever or killing them, his only goal is to neutralize the perceived threat they pose to his people.
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Shin and Midori are almost the only characters in yttd that have a whole scene dedicated to them messing with someone’s PTSD
It’s a really good parallel and shows just how messed up Shin’s actions were and how he ended up acting more like Midori even after he stopped trying to. The only person that went as far as Shin did was an actual cultist serial killer and one of the people responsible for the death game happening in the first place
It also highlights their differences because of how and why they do what they do. Shin does it because he thinks he’s justified, and it’s also an impulsive decision made right after Kanna is killed. He’s not there to laugh at Sara when she finds the Joe AI, we don’t even know how he feels about the whole thing after the fact (I don’t think giving Sara amnesia was an intended consequence. I wonder how he reacted when he found out). But Midori makes a whole show out of messing with Keiji, and he had to have planned the whole thing in advance to make the Mr. Policeman doll. He also doesn’t hide behind revenge or a greater good, he just torments people for fun
It really shows how Shin is just that close to being on Hiyori’s level, but he’s not there yet, and the scales could be tipped to either side depending on what happens next
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I personally am so happy that the episode was all a dream because I’m okay with there not being macdennis but if they had confirmed Dennis as a killer i would have been devastated. I do wish they’d explore more of his emotions tho- especially since Glenn has said he misses playing those colors. Like he’s got Big Feelings! This was more of his rage- but it’s a step up that he was able to curb that rage I guess?
Also people are saying it’s joever for macdennis but like… they didn’t fight or anything right? They’re still super close- and remember Frank vs Russia? That’s still a thing
Disclaimer I’ve just been seeing people’s post about it I haven’t watched this ep but I do wish it wasn’t the finale or they’d at least end it with a scene of the gang together
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I've decided to change-improve our red haired boy's appearance/tattoos/piercings a bit and this all started from a big septum ring...
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Just finished The Longest Promise, and I'm overwhelmed with feelings, so I don't really have words for it yet.
Just this: any time I think I couldn't love him more, Xiao Zhan proves me wrong. Thank you for bringing Shi Ying to life and making me love him so much.😭🥹❤️
I'm missing Shi Ying already and will start my rewatch soon, including making more gifs whenever I can make time for it.
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only taemin could make a song about his "rizness" and still come off like a badass
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i really need to rewatch uwe before the upcoming season finale and properly gather my thoughts on it but i really really like the show! its goofy and cartoony style paired with a serious story about these warriors' souls stuck in an eternal war with the evil, the slight psychological horror of being used as hosts for said souls and almost completely discarded and disregarded (though it doesn't say too much about this, this is more my overthinking), the steampunk elements, the character designs, the voice acting... all of it. despite that i still have some irks with it, like the pacing. this show would've definitely benefited from having more episodes. for such a story heavy show 10 episodes doesn't feel enough. it worked with primal, genndy tartakovsky's previous show, because there was little to no dialogue there. it did an excellent job at making the viewer understand what was happening with mere facial expressions. but uwe characters have a lot to say, a lot to work out between each other. and it's clear tartakovsky wants to tell more. they need more episodes to do that. i hope the show gets renewed for a second season. i need everything that i'm extremely confused about to be addressed and cleared up
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