#johnny cage is definitely neurodivergent

[feralsimp2005]

I SAID TO YOU CAUSE SOME ENTITLED BITCH GOT OFFENDED THAT I SUGGESTED THAT JOHNNY CAGE IS NEURODIVERGENT AND HE DIDN'T KNOW IT AND THEY HAD THE FUCKING NERVE, GAUL AND AUDACITY TO SAY THAT THEYRE FED UP WITH "ANNOYING CHARACTERS" BEING LABELED THAT CAUSE OF HOW NEURODIVERGENTS ANNOY NEUROTYPICALS AND NOTHING ELSE BEFORE BLOCKING ME

YOU CAN'T HAVE A FUCKING INVADER ZIM PFP WHEN YOURE ACTING LIKE YOU DIDN'T FUCKING COMMENT ON A POST YOU COULD'VE SCROLLED PASS

[jellyjays]

initial thoughts after my first MK1 playthrough:

(disclaimer that i didn't actually play the game, i watched a full no commentary playthrough on youtube!!)

i fucking love this game so much holllly SHIT- expect sosososo much MK1 posting from now on. i will be on brainrot for a WHILE.

i have so many thoughts and observations and feelings, from the story to the characters to the gameplay.

all of my silly words will be below this cut

(SPOILER WARNING !!!!)

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my fav characters are these, in no particular order:

johnny cage

kenshi takahashi

raiden

mileena

syzoth

shang tsung

baraka

liu kang

kuai liang

smoke

sindel

ashrah

my least favs are these:

quan chi

rain

bi-han

thoughts on specific characters, if i have them:

JOHNNY:

he's literally so audhd. so silly <33

his spinterest is definitely film and acting

he's so very much transgender to me.

reiterating, reading his character as neurodivergent/aspec gives him so much depth that i love

(hes my fav btw. just so everyone knows.)

MILEENA:

sososo pretty <3

CANON LESBIAN I LOVE IT SO MUCH

so very badass. slays so hard

she's the kind of character i just love on instinct. i have no words about her. just so much love

SHANG TSUNG:

i hated him at first but his flamboyant and unintentionally silly ways entranced me

my only note is that he would look so much better covered in blood and dirt and slightly beat up. i would pay to see that.

he is so silly and flamboyant that i cannot take him seriously. he's the kind of guy i hold like a disobedient kitten and show you and say "look at my dog"

LIU KANG:

no notes. phenomenal

the type of character i would show you and say "this is my favorite. he is very sweet and well-behaved."

just a good guy. i want him to be my uncle. he has very good uncle vibes for some reason.

QUAN CHI:

ugly as shit. next question

how did sindel fall for this guy he's like. a carbon copy of those evil timeline destroying monks in dr strange. the two are no different.

not even silly to make up for being criminally ugly. can't believe this.

BI-HAN

i knew he was fake from the beginning. just saying.

RAIDEN

beautiful sweet country boy. perfect in every way. no notes. next.

my thoughts on the story and worldbuilding:

this game absolutely blew me away with the level of detail and intricacies- i've never been so immersed in a game before. it really felt like i was brought into the story right next to the characters, and everything felt real and tangible in so many ways. outworld felt like a real, tangible place i could visit if i wanted to, thanks to the careful additions and placement of every last piece of detail, down to the costumes and cultures and worlds.

i loved the political world-building we got throughout the whole thing, down to the cultures, the peoples, their biases, their afflictions. the virus, the conflicts behind the scenes, everything- it was so fucking cool.

so many of the twists i did NOT see coming, i think because of the incredibly careful world-building- we never got clear, obvious exposition. it all came through the story itself, the beats and events, and that was sosososo fucking cool. i., ksdjgfkajshgef

the gameplay:

the story and the gameplay just blend/lead right into each other seamlessly, and it's so. LK:JEFG HLQW$UG ITS SO FUCKING COOL.

the fact that all the characters connected to sindel had similar movesets and animations, showing how they clearly learned from each other, there's a clear connection there.

there was also some connection i didn't quite understand between a bunch of characters who had this one move where they. barf blood on your face?? which was baffling but also, despite me not fulling understanding WHAT connection there is, i know there is one, which is what's important.

there are a LOT of instances of this in the game, where characters with connections to each other will show it in how they fight. it's so fucking cool to me and such. KLJG FLQ FKLJGQW ITS SO COOOOOL KJGF ARGGGHHGHG

summary:

im so fucking insane. i will be doing more MK posting soon. thank yuou for your time.

[seven-oomen]

There’s a specific group of Scott Stans (the Scott McCall Defense Squad bunch) that desperately cling to this idea that “if anything happened to Scott, Stiles would immediately drop everything and fly himself home powered by sheer rage on his alpha’s behalf” and only tolerates Stiles when they rewrite him as Scott’s own personal attack dog. The most hilarious thing though – besides Scott fans using a neurodivergent character they are clearly unhealthily obsessed with and claim to despise to make Scott “relevant”, that is – is that I never saw Stiles being angry, or full of rage, or attacking anyone on Scott’s behalf in the actual show.

Stiles is very protective of werewolves in general and threatened people over Lydia, over Malia, over Allison, over his father, over his mother, over Cora, over Isaac, Erica and Boyd, and he openly confronted the Argents on what Kate and Gerard did to Derek and to the Hale Pack/Family. But he NEVER expressed rage, or hatred, or resentment on Scott’s behalf specifically in canon.

When Theo murders Scott in Teen Wolf Season 5, no one even notices (nor gives a shit) that Scott died. And when Liam brings Theo back from Hell in Teen Wolf Season 6, the only one who shows any kind of hatred, rage, resentment, contempt, and still holds a grudge against Theo for playing Scotty like a fiddle and for successfully putting Scotty into an early grave is… Scotty himself.

Everyone else either didn’t particularly care about Scott and put saving Stiles above Scott’s bruised ego and temper tantrums, or was angry at Theo for what Theo did to them and to their loved ones – Malia on Stiles, Lydia and Kira’s behalf, Liam on his, Mason and Hayden’s behalf, Stiles on Lydia, Malia, Kira, Liam and his father’s behalf, etc.

Meanwhile, Scott McCall…

(06x06, “Ghosted”)

SCOTT [to Theo]: I hope you realize it’s taking all of my strength to not tear you in half right now!

(06x07, “Heartless”)

SCOTT: [furiously] He’s going back into the ground!

LIAM: You can’t! He remembers Stiles!

MALIA: Scott remembers Stiles. Lydia and I remember Stiles.

LIAM: The Dread Doctors knew all about the Wild Hunt. He can help us.

SCOTT: [yelling] Or he could kill us!

LIAM: Theo is my responsibility. Noshiko gave me the sword.

HAYDEN: You both are right. If Theo tries anything, we’ll send him back to the Skinwalkers. But, for right now—

SCOTT: [yelling] He goes back now!

THEO: [smug] Except Liam’s the one with the sword.

*Scott grabs Liam and drags him into the living room to talk, leaving Malia, Lydia, Hayden and Theo in the back room*

LIAM: What? You don’t trust me?

SCOTT: I don’t trust him! Do you?!

LIAM: No. But I think we can use him.

SCOTT: [yelling] Remember who Theo is! He got into your head and you tried to kill me! And when that didn’t work, he did kill me! And Tracy, and Josh, and his sister!

LIAM: But this might be our only chance to get Stiles back.

SCOTT: [whiny] Can’t we just try to find somebody that we at least trust?

LIAM: This might be a mistake, but you don’t know that yet. And you made a lot of mistakes when you were learning to be an alpha.

SCOTT: Yeah, I made a lot… But we don’t have time for mistakes! I can’t lose Stiles!

LIAM: So we should try anything we can to save him. Right? Even Theo.

SCOTT: Convince me.

LIAM: I can put him back in the ground any time.

THEO: You also need a transformer that can handle five billion joules of electricity. I know where to find one, and I can show you how it works. I’ll tell you if Malia promises not to kill me.

LYDIA: She promises.

MALIA: No, I don’t.

MALIA [to Hayden]: We’re really gonna do this? Trust him?

HAYDEN: You got a better idea?

MALIA: I’ve got an idea. It may not be better… But at least it’s not him.

So yeah. Scott/Posey extremists’ “twue alpaha Scott is the center of everyone’s universe and their main priority, and if Peter Hale killed Scott, Stiles would be utterly devastated and should despise Peter and the Hales on Scott’s behalf” self insert power fantasy has 0 basis in canon.

I mean, yes, if Peter Hale had actually succeeded in killing Scott in Teen Wolf Season 4, Stiles would have been sad (because Stiles is a good, empathetic Bambi eyed hero with a heart of gold who keeps putting up with Scott’s bullshit even if he doesn’t have to.) But then Stiles would move on just like everyone else and finally realize how much better and happier he is without such a toxic, abusive friend in his life.

Lydia, Stiles, Malia, Liam, Kira Jackson, Danny, Chris and Mason would definitely join the Hale Pack. Cora has made it absolutely clear that she despises Scott and wants to be Stiles’ new BFF; and Peter is just waiting for the right, vulnerable moment to offer Stiles the Bite again because, as Peter Hale shamelessly admits in S6, he literally NEVER stopped fantasizing about turning-Mate biting Stiles. All the Cora, Stiles, Lydia & Kira’s ride or die friendship, Hale Pack feelings, and Spark/Emissary Stiles and Dark Stiles/Void Stiles’ unleashed potential ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I can’t really comment on S4-6 since I didn’t watch it aside from some clips of Peter, Noah, and Chris. (Noah going to town and bringing out the Johnny Cage??? Hello Sheriff!) But yeah, I can’t really give much insight on those seasons but I think characterisation went downhill after 3B anyway, so I’m not surprised by inconsistencies.

I will say this, I don’t believe Peter would give Stiles the bite without consent. For all Peter’s faults, he’s not someone who would force himself on people like that. I honestly think Scott was an outlier, maybe even an accident in a way. But that is merely speculation.

Would he manipulate Stiles or try to convince him? Yeah, let’s be real, this is Peter. So he would try and convince him. But if Stiles continually says no? It stays no.

It is an interesting thought though, what would have happened if Peter had turned someone else that night?

I think my favorite speculations are Noah Stilinski (the Sheriff) or even Chris Argent. And Chris hiding it because he doesn’t want to leave his daughter behind. I think that would be extraordinarily interesting.

[feralsimp2005]

I was on Reddit cause there's other "nerds" I can infodump and be autistic to and I came across this post

And if this fucking side by side photo of Johnny Cage wearing a fucking outfit prove he's not Neurodivergent/Autistic/Adhd/AuHD idfk what is

I just thought he was mainly riddled with ADHD cause him and my boyfriend irl act so similar which my boyfriend has ADHD and thinks he's cool while I simp for Johnny Cage