#link is by nature a blank slate protag

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sigh. i am cursed to have thoughts and connections to mediocre media

descendants, fe3h, and bnha are by far the most Mediocre but that makes them so easy to fixate on... i could FIX THEM!!!!! i havent had descendants thoughts in a while, but the other two are EMBEDDED INTO MY BRAIN

claude is my best friend i adore him beyond belief but the story DOES NOT CARE ABOUT HIM... wc should have been more route-focused regardless, but vw should have ABSOLUTELY been more unique. i have so many Concepts in my brain about this. the heart of it will always be making almyra matter more + having claude assist the kingdom forces properly. there is truly no reason for the alliance and kingdom NOT to team up aside from miscommunications that literally could have been settled on the battlefield without any bloodshed. i think a kingdom assist mission in early VW is very compelling, i would have loved to make use of the fhirdiad map in the VW route.

like, claude's whole thing is Fundamentally about uniting people. it's why he's the king of unification! and it's SUCH a waste that he can't start with the kingdom+the alliance.

i don't even bat that hard for dmcl but i could... i just claude so much and dmcl is a popular claude ship so i like it because i like claude...

and bnha........................i am always fixing bnha in my brain. it had so much potential. but frankly i think its downfalls are trying to make bkg matter to the plot and also not letting OFA's weirdness be more central. part of that is that i think hk didnt plan for OFA to be so weird at first. but oh well.

like the sports festival showed us those ghosts, and then the story waited WAY TOO LONG to shoot chekov's gun! danger sense should have gone off during the hosu arc and then we have ANOTHER awakening at the final exam (float, maybe, since all might would recognize it and he can start researching now. bkg doesn't see it though. only toshi) and then another at the summer camp (fa jin, perhaps, since then izuku could try doing his faux-higher percentages and not break himself so badly). i don't mind izuku not getting a reveal during the eri stuff since that arc is more about "WHY izuku" than anything else.

and then the joint training can still be blackwhip. its by far the most destructive awakening, even compared to fa jin during the fight against muscular... smokescreen is also pretty obvious (i mean, so is float, but izuku was already super mobile so i think it's a little more conceptually acceptable than smokescreen). like, i think blackwhip and smokescreen are THE hardest quirks to explain away. danger sense is invisible, izuku was already super mobile with the stockpile so floating/using it to fly is super easy to accept, and then fa jin is just another strength quirk but different since its storing up kinetic energy. smokescreen could maybe be during the provisional license after toga tries to attack him actually...

the point is! there was SUCH a better way to introduce another quirk into OFA but instead we got canon.

isn't is so annoying that my brain is so hellbent on mediocre media. i want to be free so bad. but alas. here i am.

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for the character hcs dimitri and byleth? (im trying hard not to just ask for all the blue lions bc i wanna hear your thoughts on all of them lol)

okay byleth first :D

Sexuality Headcanon: can we claim them as a canon bisexual w the S links with both men and women? i sure am!

Gender Headcanon: i hc my byleth is nonbinary (she/they), interestingly enough because i just liked the consistently gender neutral language they’re referred by with only a few exceptions. it just felt very natural to me to see them as nb :)

A ship I have with said character: i love dimileth and edeleth (former more atm since im still making my way through BE) and once i play GD i’ll probably adore claude/byleth as well fsjdkfhkjsd the biggest bonus of romancing the lords is all that tasty abundance of content

A BROTP I have with said character: this is way off planet and into my personal hc territory but i love the thought of sylvain/byleth friendship, they play off one another hilariously and i just like the thought of sylvain having normal and healthy relationships w women dskjhfksj

A NOTP I have with said character: alois, mad respect for u guys but i could never romance him fjklsdjfkldjfklds

A random headcanon: byleth is actually fucking ripped you game dev cowards

General Opinion over said character: i really like them as a protag but i wish the story played more w the blank slate morphing into emotion due to goddess intervention a bit more...

dimitri under the cut cause this is getting long

Sexuality Headcanon: bisexual baybeeeeee dimileth is actually mutual bisexual loving 

Gender Headcanon: i don’t really have one but either cis or trans i think!

A ship I have with said character: it’s dimileth bro....hand holds oh my godddddddd 

A BROTP I have with said character: i love his friendship with dedue...it’s so complicated and well written and the mixed feelings i have on it are really a testement to the Many character conflicts going on there

A NOTP I have with said character: i really appreciate the art and Angst TM but i just dont personally ship dimitri/felix

A random headcanon: he absolutely burst into tears when his son was born

General Opinion over said character: insert general joke here about me falling for the same character tropes over and over bUT god i love dimitri so much bro what a great character im so fucking invested

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Funfact: I thought Link name was Zelda when I first played and thought nothing of it until Zelda was introduce. When I finish the game, I wonder why it was called the Legend of Zelda when the legend seems to involve around Link and Ganon and Zelda just being there. Don't get me wrong. I love Zelda but, yeah, there need to be a game of her. Actually, I want one game as Zelda as the MC and another of Link being happy doing life simulation stuff like Dr. Link like Nintendo do to Mario.

SAAAAAAME. It also didn’t help that Phantom Hourglass was my first LoZ game and considering Tetra spends 99% of the time kidnapped (and is not once referred to as Zelda), I assumed that Link was Zelda considering the title of the series

And same here! It’s odd that the series’s been called after a character who usually had little involvement in terms of gameplay or story (especially in the first entries until about OoT). Considering how recent games such as SS and BotW have shown us Zelda as a person of her own and not just an archetype (princess), someone with a clear/defined personality, someone with feelings (anger, sadness, happiness, longing, etc.), someone who faces struggles and overcomes them, it should be logical to center the story AND gameplay around her. 

There’s also the fact that Link isn’t just a blank slate meant to represent a link between the player and the LoZ world anymore: slowly, he’s been given personality traits, witty comebacks in the form of dialogue options, and more recently in BotW, a whole backstory of his own (a love for cooking, the son of a royal knight, assigned to protect the princess, almost died and spent a 100 years in ressurection chambers). 

Nintendo can’t really go “we keep Link as the protag and only playable character because he allows the player to project themselves into him and experience the LoZ world intimately” anymore. And their unwillingness to put Zelda in Link’s role because “what would he do??” is also odd, because well, what was Zelda doing all along then??

There are so many roles Link could occupy (as I expressed in an ask I sent): make him a NPC, a ghost, a kid too young for adventures, a old warrior who can’t fight anymore. Or be able to engage with him in terms of gameplay/story: make him a boss, a companion character (like Zelda in Spirit Tracks) or simply another playable character along with Zelda (like in Hyrule Warriors, even if it wasn’t canon).

And here’s one last thing: if Nintendo tries to put more focus on Zelda’s story, then let her be the center of the gameplay too (and put Link on the backstage). Otherwise, if they really want Link to be the only playable character, like for old time’s sake, then don’t go focusing on Zelda so much!

But to be honest, it feels mostly like Nintendo is clinging onto hold conventions that were first born because of 90-2000s limitations (such as no voice acting, simple stories, little character focus in order to emphasize world exploration, no companion character to serve as the tutorial as game mechanics were quite simple and easy to grasp). 

And if Nintendo is going to push Zelda’s characterisation and emphasize her importance in both the plot and as her own person (with her own motivation, struggles, feelings, etc.), then shouldn’t it be natural to want to play as her in order to witness her evolution first-hand? In order to see her overcome her struggles and gain maturity (like Link in SS)?

I really, REEEALLY, want a playable Zelda (and not just like in Spirit Tracks! I want her to be the protag, from beginning to end! I wouldn’t mind little moments playing as another character, like Medli in WW, but I want Zelda to be the important playable figure of a LoZ game) :>