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mixelation · 11 months

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there's a post on my dash discussing who the most "competent" character in a fandom is, and some of the qualifiers for what makes someone "competent" made me raise my eyebrows..... so i'll ask:

what qualities do you think make a fictional character "competent"?

#these discussions are always kind of weird to me bc in my mind competency has to be linked to a specific task/duty/job #bc obviously every human is good at some things but not others... like i'm very competent at specific lab tasks i've been tried in #but if i had to learn a new system there'd be a learning curve #and people will try to evaluate a whole ass fictional person as competent/incompetent #and then they'll put weird qualifiers on it like 'well that plan only worked due to luck'#but the narrative does NOT indicate this?#like. for example. you know i love itachi but his plans when evaluated from a place of real world logic make no sense #but within the rules of his own universe they're supposed to be brilliant because he plays by ninjaland rules not ours #is itachi competent????#(again i think evaluating a whole ass character is sort of missing the point? itachi is highly competent at murder but not affection)#(for example)#(but i'm trying to parse together what other people mean)

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