B'Elanna, Neelix, Tuvok and Chakotay needed to star in an episode where they just talked about their different beliefs and approaches to spirituality/religion. Paired off and all together. I need to gain more insight. I need characterization and I need it to be messy.
Having thoughts about sentience, inorganics, the inherent value of life, and the human factor because the way Transformers talks about it genuinely fucks me up sometimes
Frankly I think Alistair being mildly shitty to that mage in Ostagar seems pretty in-character for the guy he is before the massive, life-altering trauma that is the Ostagar massacre wherein he sees all of his Grey Warden comrades, his beloved mentor/father figure, and his beloathed half-brother/convenient-target-of-projection absolutely torn to shreds by literal Thedas boogeymen. IIRC Morrigan and Flemeth both comment on his wack behavior after Ostagar and then by the time we get to Lothering Alistair just fully surrenders any and all responsibility (and, frankly, agency) to the player's Warden for the foreseeable future. It can then take anywhere from a couple IRL hours to the entire second act of the game for him to retake almost any amount of it back. And depending on the player's choices in dialogue, and especially whether or not they choose to romance him, we may only see flashes of that guy we met at Ostagar before he potentially morphs into almost someone else entirely (hardened!King!Alistair). All that to say, I don't actually think it's a useful criticism of "characterization" to bring up Alistair's glibness as compared to his behavior in the majority of the game because from where I'm standing (looking directly at his snottiness about Cailan, his complaints about being assigned to the Tower of Ishal, his Templar-esque focusing on Morrigan and Flemeth being apostates, his generally pretty brusque manner with the Warden recruits) it seems fairly in-line with the rest of his behavior at Ostagar.
i have decided that my interpretation of c!wilbur’s ominous foreshadowing after the “Bust” stream is that he was suicidal and increasingly planning on committing suicide as his character heavily alludes to (because i believe that negating the suicidal overtones of cwilbur during this portion of his story by saying that he was always only ever planning on going back to utah: # 1 just lessens the impact of everything that happens in this arc, because he wouldve already decided to live thus making all those conversations and apologies forcing him to confront the realities of his own life and death wayyy less meaningful, but most importantly # 2 makes it impossible to provide adequate closure for his character’s deepest struggles because they wouldve never been re-addressed) — BUT that when he finally decided to go through with sending friend to ghostbur thus making the evident conclusion that ghostbur did not deserve to suffer eternally (and by extension and implication, himself, too) he changes his mind and chooses Life :) aka Utah <3
For the "optimus has a size kink" theoretical oc i exactly imagined a shuttke class mech who is autobot aligned neutral, considering joining the autobots, and as we might be able to guess has never met Optimus before. Someone working with team Prime when they arrive on earth, as an ally and not a subordinate
... so it's an absolute miracle for Optimus and the Prime team.
Ratty is so disappointed in Optimus for being so obviously down bad for this new mech (who now that i think of it could already have been an autobot who just never met Optimus because i mean he's been busy as the lead commander)
But even he admits that out of all the options this is the best opportunity and choice for a partner for Optimus. Oppy's bad taste in mecha is notorious and Ratchet remembers how many times he had to comfort Orion in some lowkey bar as Ori cries over another mech who broke his spark. This time? Part of Ratchet is hoping this time will be less of a disaster. After all he has noticed how hard the war has been on his old friend, how distant and lonely he has gotten.
still obsessed with the idea that Nebula is a late-blooming lesbian who really only comes into her sexuality because she’s no longer under the thumb of a parental figure that dominated her entire life—up to and including deciding how she wielded her body