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Dear PTJ, please develope your female characters

Someone complaining abt the way PTJ writes his female characters (truly, a never seen before concept); 1st Afilliate Arc and Cheongliang Arc spoilers (at this point, I think most people are up to date w/ the story, but I'm still gonna put this warning just in case)

Look, I don't take Lookism super seriously. In fact, I think I never did that, mainly thanks to the outlandish concepts it had since the beginning. I'm just here to have fun at this point, and to finally learn the truth about Daniel's 2nd body (omg, it's been 400+ chapters-).

I definitely wasn't expecting to find super well written female characters (even though I definitely should, it's 2023, for God's sake-), something a good number of fighting-related webtoons seem to struggle with. But damn, does Lookism waste its female characters in a way not many have done before.

Since the focus of the story has shifted primarly towards fighting and taking down the Four Crews and Charles Choi, I'm gonna focus on two of the characters most connected to these aspects: Mary Kim and Crystal Choi (ik Lua and Sally are also connected in this way, but I don't really have a lot to say about them and, besides, they've already been covered by another user here on Tumblr)

Mary Kim

The perfect opportunity to get her more involved came up not so long ago, in the ep just before the Allied vs 1st Afilliate fight properly started. We see Mary's reaction upon hearing Vin Jin tell her that Taejin Cheon is alive; we can see her anger asclear as day both in her expression and her words. She literally expresses how much she wants to kill this guy.

And yet, PTJ doesn't make her go and get her revenge. Instead, we have Vin Jin basically saying that he will do it for her because 'his hands are already dirty" (i heavily paraphrased his words, but you get it), which to me, at least, doesn't make sense.

Time and time again we see how close the two of them are in spite of the many jabs they throw at each other. Even without knowing the details of their shared past in Cheongliang (which comes up a couple episodes later), it's very strange that she would let Vin jin go to face him just like that.

By this point, it's already stablished that he murdered somebody, an act that even if deserved by the deceased person, takes a mental toll on the one who does it. Taking this into account, I don't see why Mary would just let who's basically her best friend go through the same thing again, alone. And I especially don't see why she would obey him and stay behind. Her, Mary, the person who never takes Vin Jin's bullshit and always calls him out.

Why not have them both go together? It would be a great opportunity to 1) deal with the last negative reminder of their past, and gain a little bit of closure once and for all, and 2) have Mary finally fight seriously and be able to demonstrate why she's called 'The Empress of Two Seconds' and why she's considered so strong.

We've only seen her take down minor opponents a very, very small number of times, all of which are altercations that don't ever last too long (i guess this last thing is to back up her nickname but, eh)

TLDR: Let Mary dirty her hands as much as Vin. Let them take down together one of the people who has brought them so much pain as the pair of strong besties they are. Stop telling us how strong she is and actually commit to showing it.

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Crystal Choi

Oh boy, this character-

Like, you mean to tell me that the sole offspring/child of the Big Bad Guy tm the protagonist and his friends are meant to take down, who also happens to be friends with said protagonist, doesn't play a major role on the story? Absolutely insane

And that isn't even taking into account that she also has 2 bodies, which is something only one other character (Daniel, the PROTAGONIST), has and is a major plot point

I'd like to see her be more aware of her privilege as a rich person. Yeah, she was relentlesstly bullied and undermined for her appeareance (which is a horrible thing for anybody to go through) but at least she wasn't poor, too. Does she actually use her money or her status as the daughter of one of the richest men in Korea to change things or solve problems?

Jay literally bought an ambulance of the same type used by the 1st Afilliate so that Allied could sneak in, so why can't Crystal do something similar to help them, too? She helped them during the Gambling Arc by bringing Kouji

I'd like to see her realize and come to terms with the fact that her father's a horrible person. I don't think she knows everything that's going on behind closed doors, but she's definitely smart enough to have noticed that there's something shady going on with his bussiness.

Let her discover the truth. Let her pick either her father's or Daniel's side (the latter which I believe is the most plausible, since she doesn't seem the type to excuse murder, extorsion, etc.). She could act as an informant, helping Allied from the inside.

Heck, you could have her fight, too, if you wanted to. She trained with Gun, after all. And yeah, maybe she's not as strong as the other characters, but we know that she can hold her own against most people. We've seen it.

TLDR: how the hell do you set up a character with so much potential and don't do anything with it. Also, think abt the angst potential!

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Final thoughts, I guess:

I think that Crystal siding with Allied has a higher chance of happening than PTJ letting Mary fight. There's still a good chunk of the story yet to be told, so anything could happen.

I'm actually considering believing that the reason we rarely see the female characters is that they, also, are working secretly to take down the Four Crews and it's gonna get revealed in the last arc for the sake of my sanity

[psychicvelociraptor]

“dennis is a serial killer” do u fr think that man is competent enough to execute not just one but multiple murders without getting caught

[partyshrimp]

sometimes i think of some interesting things when i'm in bed unable to sleep... last night for instance i was randomly like "what if clowns had rifles called jk-47s because theyre used for pranks and they shot wacky things out of them like handkerchiefs and fully intact pies somehow?

[momoleighann]

RANT

okay so I get together with this guy from work (I know first mistake) and we flirt for like 2 weeks. He finally asks me to come have dinner with him and his child (she's such a cutie) and I say yes because Finally! We have an amazing time and it gets late enough that I just stay the night (second mistake) we go from half clothed to cuddling naked. We're talking about all sorts of things and he says "if we do end up getting serious then we shouldn't bring it to work" and I'm on board for that because hey work is all sorts of drama. (in hind sight a red flag?) You can guess where this is going, but we have sex and its soo good, like fuck yes please more all the time. wake up in the morning after snuggles in bed with his kiddo (almost had a nip slip lol) and have breakfast. I'm thinking to myself that everything is going so nicely and he's such a sweetheart. I could really like this guy ya know. Well cut to a couple days later when I mess up at work and during that he happens t be in the office. We both get yelled at and later on I ask if he wants to get together that night. his response was "I don't know, honestly I'm not looking for anything serious at the moment. Also I don't want to create waves at work. I'm still up for hanging out with you as a friend but I'm not wanting to pursue anything serious right now. Sorry I hope this makes sense." ....yeah...I feel like a total idiot. I feel used and dirty. I am under the assumption that he's looking to have an actual relationship by the previous conversations and then once I actually have sex with him "I'm not looking for anything serious" like BOI WHAT THE FUCK! I tell him friends is fine because of course he's texted me while I'm napping before work (graveyards suck man). After that I go over again and we cuddle most of the night and he explains that "He's not in a place where he can get attached to anyone" and I'm like okay the sex is still really good and cuddles are A+. I can roll with this. Ever since then anytime we spend any time together he totally ignores me for days and then when I ask when he wants to hang he pulls this bullshit again. That he gets the feeling that I still want to be more, and I'm like broski I'm over it. (I had a bit of an emotional day and he made me cry right before my period the week before) He keeps going "I just don't want you to feel disrespected or like I'm leading you on or you getting too attached to me" like DUUUUUUUDE make up your damn mind. The "we can still have fun" comments keep getting to me as well. Like what do you want from ME!?!?!?! I'm so done with people assuming they know how I feel. I was totally chill with just being friends with benefits because the dick was good, but I don't know if I can handle this constant emotional rollercoaster from his end. I would like to get off now please. Does anyone have any advice???????

[stebenooniberse]

A word on Malaga and Barça

I'm not the most technical of watchers or football players by a long shot but the Malaga barça game has be messed up because there's no way that ney should have gotten a red card that was so weird and when all those other players are manhandling each other and there's no foul called???? And the ref is a known Malaga supporter????? Fishy.

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Mirando el portapaje con @mospeaking 💚

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ZANE FUCKING KILLED HIMSELF?!

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MISAKO AND WU WERE JUST READY TO DO A JOINT SUICIDE?!

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bro............lloyd with his broken ass leg about to face off against a giant evil dragon thing ALONE?! like how is this possibly going to work out in his favor.......

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everytime i’m convinced i’m a lesbian i just need to read an mlm fic and be like Oh Right. i am Devastated that i will never be a GUY in love with a GUY!!!!!!!!!!

[mosspace]

You know which forgotten shows had a really great and catchy opening song?

Gormiti: Nature Unleashed and Di-Gata Defenders

[psychicvelociraptor]

why does sensei wu wear a hat under his hat

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giving pythor a different voice was such a lame decision..............MAKE PYTHOR GAY AGAIN!!!!!!1

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“we may not have power but we still have sharks” SO true ninjago