•The car chasing, thrill seeking buff guy who values brotherhood (he’s barely 18, he likes anime, he feels disconnected from his brothers)
•The brutal mob boss who walks around like a brick wall and gets what he wants (she’s also just a kid, she’s got a chance to get out but she’s scared of leaving, she’s a kleptomaniac with a crush)
•The teen hacker extraordinaire (she’s an old woman, she’s tired she knows nothing about technology, she won’t move in with her granddaughter so she won’t be a burden)
•The fem fatale cat burglar (a slutty handyman who’s afraid of commitment)
•The smooth talking poker playing king of espionage (he’s anti establishment, he lives in his uncles shed, he’s in contact with aliens and is his bosses arch enemy )
•The one man army of a detective who’s getting divorced (she’s mom to her kids and her coworkers, she’s a mall cop, she’s sweet as can be with some serious sass, she’s also recently divorced.)
I fucking love the dynamics between the ‘people’ and the ‘avatars’ in NSBU.
G13 is using Usha, because he’s a hacker and a manipulator, and she’s exactly the kind of person who can be easily scammed. Haunting. Spine-chilling. Cool as fuck, truly unbelievable storytelling, and it’s developed so organically!
On the other hand, Vic is mentoring Wendell in a way, and we got to see them really sync up this episode, working together to advance the narrative and protect their people. Wendell totally gets the kind of person that Vic is, and I think that helps him take Vic’s advice as the more experienced person- but also know that he’s not always going to be right.
Paula and Jack are sort of… misaligned. She keeps trying to find guidance from him, but they’re almost too similar? Jack so far that we’ve seen is very hands-off, and doesn’t seem all that worried about Paula- or his own family. Whereas Paula of course cares deeply about Jack’s family already, because she’s much more involved and familial minded than what we’ve seen of Jack.
Liv and Kingskin are, I think, the most compatible duo. Liv has settled nicely into her role in some ways, the control and power it grants her suits her well, and it feels like Kingskin likes her because of that? But at the same time her compassion for others is making such a notable difference in the way that she’s able to interact with people in Kingskin’s circles that it feels like he could learn as much from her as she’s learning from him. They feel like the most balanced pair, with the most mutual respect.
Dang doesn’t match Stocks’ vibe at all. He’s trying to do the cool action movie things, he’s playing into the role really well at times- but who Dang is, really, doesn’t sync up. His morals and priorities are very different from Stocks’- for good and bad alike. There’s very little connection between the two, it feels like- to me it reads as Dang just trying to fill the shoes of this Bond-like character, more than anything. Sometimes he’s really able to pull it off, and sometimes it just… doesn’t work. Stocks isn’t helping him. He’s on his own- which it seems is perhaps a norm for Dang.
Then of course, Russell. Russell and Jennifer are not a team at all- what Russell is learning from this experience, he’s learning from simply being Jennifer, not from communicating with her. He’s a man who we know is used to being attractive, used to being complimented and unused to being told off for the way that he behaves. I love the way that Ally’s taken his character as Jennifer- because he isn’t Jennifer. He’s Russell. He doesn’t want to wear a skin-tight bodysuit, he wants to get a baggy shirt to hide this form that he’s not used to, and work with the new skills that he has.
Idk I just think it’s super super cool that all of the players are working within the mechanic so differently, and I think every single manifestation of this dynamic makes so much sense for the characters that it’s just astounding. This last episode was such a good show of these dynamics and the impact they actually have on the plot.
God bless the influx of Lee Russell fics, i can die happy (pls for the love of god someone write secretly soft hearted Lee russell who needs to get bent over, hallelujah)
Hello! I am doing Kinktober this year; here is the month's menu. For every year I will make my own and it will be open for anyone to use for a list promps.
Some series that I have going on will be pushed back or paused due to this, but none the less, I hope you enjoy!
Hello, I hope you enjoyed if there is any grammar mistakes or misspellings sorry about that feel free to let me know in the comments, have a great day/afternoon/night!
One thing I love about having Walton Goggins brainrot is that you won’t have to suffer through awful TV/movies just because he’s in them. I’ve gotten to watch amazing shows/films because of him and I find that to be very refreshing for someone who’s consumed bad media simply because I simped so hard for some DILF.
Walton is not just some DILF. He’s a DILF with a stacked IMDB page.