#the female villains in this arc >>>

[chub-whisker]

i would’ve led riverclan into a golden dawn, not a bloody sunset.

[the-most-humble-blog]

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🧠 STAR WARS HOT TAKE — THE MONSTER SHE BECAME A Blacksite Literature™ Transmission (Because sometimes the chosen one burns the temple down.)

—

You want to know what would've saved Star Wars?

Rey turning into a Sith. No redemption. No apology. No narrative backflip to avoid bruising her image. Just evil. Cold. Inevitable. Tragic.

She didn’t get there because she was weak — she got there because the darkness made more sense.

Let me put it in the bluntest terms I can: She should’ve become the fucking monster. Not Kylo. Not some grey-area anti-hero. Not a conflicted girl with a lightsaber fetish. A monster. Just like her grandpapi.

But no. Instead, we got the most sterilized, agenda-drenched narrative in sci-fi history. A trilogy so frightened of letting a woman be flawed, powerful, and damned that it neutered its own potential. You want to know why that upcoming Rey trilogy will be DOA? Because they already wasted the only ending that could’ve saved her arc:

Her fall.

Not a stumble. Not a moment of “oops, dark side temptations.” I mean a complete possession. A willing descent. A new Empress. Palpatine 2.0 — but better.

—

Back in the day, we told stories to scar the soul in a good way. Greek tragedy. Shakespearean collapse. Anakin’s scream. > “I HATE YOU!” Burning, legless, crying in the ash of everything he once was. That wasn’t just cinema. That was myth.

And you know what made it powerful? It wasn’t safe.

Now? Disney thinks danger is offensive. That tragedy is too problematic. That every female protagonist must somehow double as a PR mascot for a toothpaste commercial.

The Force is female? Cool. Then let her fall. Let her fail. Let her choose evil, like any other real character might when backed into a moral corner and seduced by the very blood running through her veins.

But no. Rey had to stay pure. She had to redeem him. Because her ovaries wrote the script, apparently.

Let me ask you: If the dark side can’t take anyone… Then what is it? A glorified emo phase?

Seriously. If you have to already be broody, edgy, or half-insane to fall to the dark side, then the dark side is neutered. Defanged. Just an aesthetic.

But what if it wasn’t? What if the dark side could seduce anyone? Even the girl who smiled. Who loved. Who gave a damn. What if it made sense for her? What if it gave her power that felt natural — like breathing?

—

Here’s the thing they never dared write:

Rey has every reason to fall.

She’s a nobody. Her parents abandoned her. She was manipulated, hunted, deceived, isolated. Her identity stolen, retconned, and twisted — first by lineage, then by narrative.

And when she finally learns she’s a Palpatine?

They should’ve made it hurt.

Not a five-minute lightsaber therapy session followed by “I choose the light, teehee.”

No.

Let it destroy her.

Let the name Palpatine sink in like venom. Let it pull her apart. And then?

Let her put herself back together — not as Rey the Jedi… …but as Rey the Sith.

Let her accept it. Let her say, out loud, “I am what I am.” Let her choose it.

> “You wanted balance? I’ll give you symmetry. > You got your Skywalker that fell to darkness — now you’ll get a Palpatine that never climbs out.”

Imagine the scene: Finn, standing across from her. Lightsaber drawn. She’s wearing black. Her eyes like twin eclipses. No hate. Just serenity. The kind of calm that only a godless tyrant can possess.

And he begs her: > “Come back.”

But she laughs. Like it’s a joke. Because to her, there’s no coming back from truth.

> “You still don’t get it, do you?” > “There was nothing to come back to.”

And that’s when he realizes: She’s gone. Not possessed. Not confused. Gone.

She isn’t drowning in the dark.

She’s breathing in it.

—

You want to know what would’ve shaken Hollywood? A love story inverted into a execution.

Finn trains. Finn ascends. Finn becomes Jedi not because of fate, prophecy, or birthright — But because he has to kill the woman he loves. Because she became something worse than even Palpatine dreamed of.

And when the moment comes — She screams in rage as he drives his saber through her heart. Not in fear. Not in regret.

> In hatred. > Like Anakin. > “I HATE YOU!” > “I WOULD’VE KILLED THE GALAXY FOR YOU AND YOU CHOSE THEM.”

Her last words are not a redemption arc. They’re a final, unrepentant, curse.

And Finn? Finn whispers: > “I loved you anyway.”

That’s cinema. That’s fucking Star Wars.

—

But no. We got a PowerPoint deck on empowerment. We got “I’m all the Jedi” and hugs and Skywalker cosplay. We got the girlboss ending that no one asked for — And everyone forgot the monster she was born to be.

Disney was so afraid of letting a woman be evil that they stripped her of being interesting.

Newsflash: Flawed female characters are compelling. Villainous women are iconic. Tragedy is beautiful.

> You want to put butts in seats for that next Rey trilogy? > Have the balls to make her the villain.

Start the first scene with the galaxy on fire. The Jedi temples smoldering. Children missing. Acolytes chanting her name.

Not Empress Rey. Not Supreme Leader Rey.

No. Just Rey. One name. One legend. A goddess of wrath forged from legacy and betrayal. The shadow that even Palpatine never cast.

—

And Finn? He’s the myth now. The one who loved a monster and still raised a generation of incorruptible Jedi. Not because he was chosen. But because he had to end her.

Because she never came back.

Because she didn’t want to.

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[neongalaxiie]

Villain slumped against their bean bag, dropping their gaming controller onto their lap and reaching for their soda. A long slurp of the drink and readjustment of the mic, and another match has begun. Villain leaned forward as they earned kill after kill, shouting to their team for some sense of coordination. Some people just didn't know how to play, did they?

Villain practically carried their team, but was eliminated by the end. They left the match, having enough of ranked games, and settled for a more relaxed mode.

Suddenly, the door slammed inward, hitting the wall hard enough to leave a dent. Villain sat up, sliding their headset off and saw Hero standing in the doorway, head down, with a shadow over their eyes. Their body was tense, their expression grim, and their fists balled at their sides.

Villain's eyes widened. "H-hero? What are you doing here?"

Hero raised their head just enough to peer up at Villain from the top of their glowing eyes. Their demeanor didn't change apart from a scowl. Villain swallowed.

Nobody said anything for a few seconds.

Then Hero broke the oppressive silence with a low growl. "Don't call me that."

"I'm done being a hero."

[bluetiefling]

"Her time with Halbrand was a time where she was very much herself in some ways because she was an Elf alone. She wasn't following the rules of her people at that point. So, he knows a part of her that other people, other beings, don't, and there's a tragedy to losing that, and through losing him, she's also lost that part of herself. " --Morfydd Clark

I thought we were done with LA press day bounties and the latest drop brought the most devastating line yet. 😭 I could go on and on about this aspect of Galadriel's characterization and in particular what being around Halbrand/Sauron brings out of her compared to how she acts when she's back in the 'nest' as it were. I don't know if it's intentional or not but something about the way they've written Galadriel reintegrating back into her community just felt subtly stifling and like that'd be one thing if the writers were self-aware about it but I got the impression it's meant to be this 100% good/wholesome thing about maturation and growth. I think this is the first time someone from the show has spoken of it differently, because there is a Loss there too. A pretty profound one.

Yes she had reasons to feel guilty and that would mean a humbled Galadriel in season 2, but I couldn't help but also notice the way she holds herself, bites her tongue, struggles to contain her anger and pain, are all pretty similar to how she acted around the elves in season 1 before she was exiled. And we subsequently saw her really sparking and expressing everything she felt after jumping off that ship, meeting Halbrand, causing a ruckus on Numenor, etc etc. (With Habrand especially, I think the way I described it once when watching s1, the reason the dynamic really grabbed me and what I saw as Galadriel coming alive, is that he spoke to her like she was just a woman, the real flesh and blood person in between the black sheep of the elves or the untouchable Lady of Light. It's no wonder he got her to bare her soul in that forge.) I reject the idea that all of that was just this flawed part of her she needs to erase from her character to become the true Galadriel. Character growth should temper her more impulsive and reckless traits but not figuratively lobotomize her.

[halfratsalready]

Potential for killing Wanderrose aside, if this whole thing ends up implying that Leda’s reason for turning evil is the Traveler leaving, I will be so incredibly upset. Night Swan as a villain deserves a much cooler origin story than “a man left me 😔” and I will be so annoyed if they try to pull that. Give us the crazed, perfection-obsessed Night Swan that was implied in Enter the Danceverses and Dance With the Swan, not a dejected Leda who turns to the dark side because of a failed relationship.

[ctrl-lupin]

hey uhh what the fuck is happening in p6?????? JKHJGHFG

(i havent watched it yet)

Okay, so-

---SPOILERS FOR LUPIN III PART 6---

(which came out like three years ago but still)

I'm assuming you mean the second arc, the one with the creepy lady in a kimono.

TL;DR: Lupin's childhood tutor fucked up his brain by long-distance hypnosis to make him her puppet, and Lupin's partners physically manifested inside his brain to kick her ass.

Essentially, when Lupin was a kid his dad hired this teacher/consultant/tutor called Tomoe to teach baby Lupin to be a thief. She was a loving but ruthless teacher and Lupin pretty much considered her like his mother (he never met his biological mother). At some point Tomoe managed to break into Arsène Lupin's safe (which no one had ever done so it was a Big Deal) and steal a precious gem from it, and then immediately proceed to get shot dead in front of baby Lupin's eyes.

Fast forward a couple decades later, we get to the events of Part 6 where a whole Thing gets kicked off because the gem that Tomoe stole turned up at an auction. I'll skip the details but it turned out Tomoe didn't die at all, she hypnotised some poor bastard to play her role and get shot, and this hole time she's been playing teacher to a bunch of different women, tutoring them and placing them in positions of power or influence (or not???? no clue what Muru was doing there) so that they'll cross Lupin's path eventually, and...

This is where it gets weird: she brainwashed/hypnotised all these women so that they'll have some uncanny fascination with Lupin (hence leading them to meeting him), and upon meeting him, that they'll be compelled to recite a line from a poem - every time in the guise of some acceptable thing to say in the conversation. Put all together, the poem is a hypnosis trigger.

It turns out, back when she was tutoring Lupin, Tomoe fucked with his brain big time. She was trying to make him believe she was his actual, biological mother, using hypnosis to plant fake memories in his brain. At some point she had to lock up these fake memories away in his brain, and implanted a trigger that would release them, make him believe she was his actual mother, and want to- idk, help her? do anything she asks? in any case she was basically trying to use him as a puppet or a weapon. So she planted this, like, mind control trigger in his brain when he was a child, and then spent the rest of her life mind-fucking a bunch of random women so that they'd gradually trigger Lupin into becoming a brainwashed puppet for her. Her reasoning is that if Lupin truly believes she's actually his biological mother, he'll do anything she asks (and also, you know, mind control helps). Which, like, okay, but Lupin already considered Tomoe to be his mother, he still described her to his friends as his mother even all those years later, like... ma'am you didn't need to do all that, if you'd asked him nicely he would have given you the world.

Anyway, the mind control worked... for about 48 hours. When Lupin finally collected all the pieces of the poem, he went pretty much bonkers, started fighting his partners (that's the "True love" / "I've always been your partner, and you'll never forget that, right?" screenshot that was posted a few days ago), and headed straight for his childhood home where Tomoe was waiting for him. On the way, Fujiko tried to intercept him and jog up his memory (that's the bit you saw where she's trying to kiss him and he's reacting as much as a brick).

It would all have worked out for Tomoe weren't it for the fact that Jigen, Goemon and Fujiko (and imo Zenigata but somehow he wasn't included????) are LITERALLY LUPIN'S FUCKING SOULMATES, and actually manifested inside his fucking brain to kick Tomoe's ass. Basically, all the fake memories that were unfolding in Lupin's mind all somehow contained an element of his partners - Jigen's hat, Goemon's sword, Fujiko's playing cards. The fake memories were being fought back by what was the strongest thing in is psyche: his love for his partners. In the end they actually showed up like in person in his brain to basically tell Tomoe to go fuck herself, and it was absolutely glorious.

So by the time he got to his childhood home, Lupin had already broken out of the brainwash thing, but he pretended he hadn't because he needed Tomoe to... well, tell him what the fuck was going on (as a reminder, until like two days before he had thought she'd been dead for years). He got shot in the chest by Mattea (another one of Tomoe's students who's an assassin and turned agaist her teacher and decided she needed to murder all of Tomoe's students... for... reasons??) and then repreatedly slapped in the face by Fujiko who thought he was still under mind control and needed to be woken up by the power of heterosexual love and also incredible violence. Also Jigen shoved his cigarette in Lupin's mouth to make him stop talking which imo is jigenese for shutting him up by kissing him.

Oh, and also, Arsène Lupin's unbreakable safe that Tomoe broke into? Fake memory. Tomoe never cracked it. Lupin did. AT TEN FUCKING YEARS OLD.

[send-me-a-puffalope]

me when i get attached to doomed characters, knowing that Vanessa will likely eventually don her own fursuit and there’s nothing I can do about it

[blimbo-buddy]

It's not actually that hard to not make a female character's entire arc about motherhood or being guy characters' love interests or what have you I think you guys just need to become better writers

[starry-eyer]

When I see stuff like this I kinda want to bash my head into a wall:

To start off, I’m not sure whether this person was commenting on book or show Cersei, but honestly, it doesn’t even matter because she’s so much more than the ‘ambitious villain’ or the ‘murderous girlboss’ tropes in both the book and show.

(Of course, I do have my issues with the way Cersei was written in the show like most people but this is simply a rant post so I’m not going to go through the differences of Show vs Book Cersei)

Cersei is a female character who was shaped by her environment, who’s insecurities were created by her environment, and she’s a woman who’s idiotic mistakes can be traced back to how her environment shaped her. She’s much more than a murderous girlboss, she’s both a victim of the system and also a beneficiary of it, while also acting as an agent of it to keep the status quo while also desiring what the system denied her.

Cersei is NUANCED and complicated and even now people hate that about her and want her to have been a purely evil woman handcrafted in a vacuum, ignoring the context of her life because readers would rather not engage with Cersei’s victimhood and nuances because that ruins their idea of: She Was The Problem and Always The Problem. (People would rather say that she deserved her walk of shame instead of interacting meaningfully with the theme of systematic gender-based violence that is so prevalent in Cersei’s story. The exploration of patriarchal violence in Show Alicent’s story is done so horribly in comparison.)

And what really pissed me off about these tags is that this person has clearly decided that they don’t care to interact with the nuance of Cersei and are fine with flattening her, and yet they shit on others for not liking Alicent.

Because of the way Alicent is written in this show, she almost always has a ‘woe is me I can do no wrong’ attitude, which of course drives people away from the character (woe is me I deserve to take a child’s eye 🥺). However, what actually annoys me is how she’s made out to be stupid, foolish, ignorant, and inconsistent due to the horrible writing of this show, all of which are deviations from her book characterization. Also, I despise it when people want me to support writing decisions and changes made in adaptations that are downright misogynistic and are meant to attract the male gaze.

But what pisses many people, including myself, off is how the changes made negatively impacted many other characters. Alicent’s terrible characterization is like a black hole that distorts and warps the whole story! It’s annoying af!

So when people like this say: ‘She’s nuanced and people just can’t handle it 🙄;’ I say: No. She’s horribly written and a different character from the book and people have a right to be critical about these changes that stripped a female character of 1) her agency and 2) her intelligence!

And the thing is, there was little reason for the writers to have made all these changes to Alicent’s characterization! In the book she is an interesting character with clear motives and understandable reactions. She’s cunning and ambitious and acts the way a noble lady who became queen would. And despite her clear ambitions and dislike of Rhaenyra, she still makes a comment wondering about who would protect the Princess from Ser Criston, and yet she then takes Cole into her service after his falling out with Rhaenyra. That’s a perfect example of nuance! Show Alicent could never compare to book Alicent’s clear moral values and consistent disregard of said moral values in pursuit of power.

And because of this, Book Alicent isn’t easy to stomach. It’s hard for most people to come to terms with a character like her and it’s even harder for people to feel sympathetic for her at the end when she went mad with grief.

On the other hand, Show Alicent was designed in a way to garner pity, and when the writers felt like her current arc wouldn’t be enough to garner the specific reaction they wanted they would then throw in a time skip and suddenly she’s completely different and yet still Thee victim. She’s designed to be as sympathetic as fucking possible! The camera angles, the background music, and the lighting is set up in a way to make sure you the viewer feels pity or sympathy for her! Cause that’s her role in this series! She’s thee Ultimate Victim!

But too bad for the writers as many people are fed up with this kind of inconsistent writing. Even when the writers created a whole new challenge for Alicent where she’s shitted on by the green council and forced to face the beast she helped to raise, I and many others could never feel any satisfaction as it was clear that once again Alicent was being made to be Thee Ultimate Victim who was just led astray by the patriarchy and was a victim of it and was only just realizing it so don’t you pity her don’t you feel sad for her and now she’s trying to do the right thing so pls pls pls pity her 🥺~ So it shouldn’t be surprising that many people are annoyed by these eNLiGhtEnEd changes that have led to a complete deviation from the source material.

To summarize: Cersei is an excellent fucking character who’s by no means easy to stomach, and because she’s not easy to stomach she’s often reduced to annoying ass tropes by dumbasses who are reading above their comprehension level. But when you actually try to understand her, you can easily see why she turned out the way she did and you can feel sympathy for her while understanding that she’s both victim and perpetrator! On the other hand, Show Alicent is a mess and HOTD is trying to make her serve a different narrative role than she did in the books so ofc people are going to be unhappy with the changes as book readers are once again faced with the annoying reality that the writers don’t give a fuck about the source material.

[sskybooks]

Hey there! My fic takes place during the actual original story, specifically during a period of 'lost time' the ever-unreliable narrator can't remember. How could I show that the character is slowly losing their mind, without falling into the stereotypical tropes of "seeing things, hearing voices," etc.

Hey sorry for answering so late. I meant to answer sooner however life and other crap got in the way. But here this is now. So yay.

Insanity is a blanket term for a bunch of disorders, like:

Schizophrenia,

Bipolar disorder,

Psychotic disorders,

and others....

So you could look up one of those, and base your character off of that if you wanted.

However, if you just want a general layout of Insanity, you have come to the right place. I DID RESEARCH and am fascinated by this topic.

I split it up into sections so it will be a lot easier to read. (Hopefully)

CAUSES

I know your character is in some sort of dimension, which could cause Insanity. But I wanted to be extra. Also, this is good for others if they want to know. All you really need to know is stress = Insanity. These are just some specific stressors:

Isolated — People need people. Without contact, people go crazy.

Exposure to toxins

Parental trauma

Trauma in general

Neglect

Abuse

No resources, and forced to survive

Substance abuse

Significant losses

Bonus points if you throw several of these at your protagonist — we want them to suffer.

EFFECTS

Think that people they once cared about could be trying to kill them

Dissociating

Memory gaps

Rituals or internal rules to “keep things safe”

Extreme mood swings

Inability to perceive changes in one’s feelings, behavior, or personality

Major changes in eating habits

Excessive fear or extreme feelings of guilt

Chronic sadness or irritability

Inability to cope with daily problems in a healthy manner

Frequent episodes of rage, panic, crying, or deep disappointment

Excessive hostility or violent impulses

Withdrawal from friends and activities that once brought them joy

Low energy or problems sleeping

Frequent, vague physical ailments with no obvious cause (headaches, stomach aches)

Eyes darting around; every loud noise alerts you

FEELINGS

They think everything is normal — they don’t know they have gone crazy.

Or:

Thought withdrawal: Belief your thoughts have been removed by an outside force.

Thought insertion: Belief alien thoughts have been placed in your mind.

Delusions of control: Belief that an outside force is manipulating your thoughts and actions.

Paranoia — this is actually a big one that a lot of insane people have.

Overly stimulated — everything is at top volume and could be a threat.

Feels like the world is unreal — everything is fake.

Obsessive thinking

normally over the thing they are paranoid about

Ruminating on a mistake or fear until it spirals.

Unsure of who they are

Feels separated from the world

Unusual, intense feelings or no feelings at all

Confused thinking

Problems with concentrating

They think they are fine — they don’t think they have changed.

DELUSION EXAMPLES

Kinds of delusions:

Persecutory Persecutory delusions (or paranoid delusions) involve the belief that a group or individual plans to act negatively against you, possibly through physical harm, harassment, or sabotage.

Referential When you believe that everyday people, places, events, and objects hold personal significance in your life despite no logical connection to you, it’s known as a referential delusion. Example: seeing someone eating ice cream and believing that situation was them sending a secret signal about circumstances that could impact your life.

Grandiose Grandiose delusions center on the belief that you’re exceptional compared to everyone else in abilities, wealth, or fame. Example: believing you have special powers or are an undiscovered talent.

Erotomanic Believing someone else is in love with you. Example: thinking a celebrity loves you even when you’ve never met or corresponded.

Nihilistic Nihilistic delusions involve thoughts related to non-existence, like believing a major catastrophe will occur or that humanity is already in the afterlife.

Somatic Somatic delusions involve a preoccupation with health and organ function. Example: attributing the typical sensation of hunger to progressive stomach cancer.

Bizarre Bizarre delusions include any false belief that is completely implausible, isn’t derived from ordinary life experiences, and isn’t seated in cultural practices. Example from DSM-5-TR: believing your internal organs have been removed by an outside force and replaced with someone else’s organs.

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Some random delusions I found that people had:

Break a big picture window because they think the people inside were suffocating.

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Nazis talking to you

Thinking you should throw away your CPU because people are about to frame you and put you in prison for life

People want to kill you

Everyone is talking about you all the time and planning something

You ask her if anyone is in her apartment before you come over and you ask if she's joking when she says "no?"

Thinking about ripping your teeth out with pliers

Looking at your hair and wanting to pour glue on it and cut it off with safety scissors

Nothing matters except completing the goal

"How do you get snakes out of your eyes?" "What?" "There's snakes in my eyes. How do I get rid of them?" (I can't really explain further than that.)

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I felt like I was in a huge labyrinth with the Mad-Hatter. I couldn't escape no matter what I did. Everything looked the same and it only got worse. I was trying to solve a problem with no answer and make it better.

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[execatrix]

there’s something so profoundly cathartic about returning to the place where you were traumatized, but entirely unrecognizable. anyway.

[the-most-humble-blog]

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🧠 BRAND OPS ANALYSIS — "THE MONSTER SHE BECAME" Was a BILLION-DOLLAR Script. Disney just… didn’t run the play.

—

📉 CASE FILE: DISNEY'S MOST EXPENSIVE FEAR

Let’s be blunt:

Rey turning Sith with no apology was the only narrative choice that would've made the sequel trilogy iconic.

A Palpatine embracing her bloodline? A female lead who didn't U-turn into virtue?

That's not just powerful. That’s profitable.

We're talking:

Merch that prints itself

Expanded Universe trilogies

Fan film hysteria

2027 kids showing up to Comic-Con in black robes whispering, “I breathe the dark.”

But nah.

They handed us “✨girlboss with lineage confusion✨” and wrote Finn out like an Uber driver with a crush.

—

💀 THE FINANCIAL AUTOPSY:

→ Instead of the most iconic female villain in science fiction history, we got “I’m all the Jedi” and post-battle cuddles.

→ Instead of Palpatine 2.0 but hot and vengeful, we got “…but her dad was nice and a clone, so she’s redeemed!”

→ Instead of Finn completing the Jedi prophecy arc, we got “Also, Lando’s your uncle now maybe? Bye!”

—

🎥 THE ALTERNATE UNIVERSE:

You don’t understand what you lost.

You lost:

💣 The chance to reintroduce female villainy as mythically tragic 🎭 The chance to make Rey the Shakespearean inverse of Luke 🧠 The chance to make Finn the incorruptible myth the Jedi Order never had 🩸 The chance to write a love story where the cost of loving evil was killing it

That’s not just a better story.

That’s iconography.

—

📊 RETURN ON ICONOGRAPHY: 101

You know how Joker made a billion dollars?

It had teeth.

It didn't ask permission to be violent, ugly, broken.

You could’ve had that with Rey. You could’ve had your own Vader-moment — but female. Modern. Beautiful. Terrifying.

You could’ve had headlines like:

> "Disney Finally Writes a Female Villain Without Apology."

Instead, we got:

> "Rey Skywalker: The Wholesome Queen™️ Who Just Needed a Hug"

Y’all turned Satan’s granddaughter into a motivational speaker.

—

🪙 FINANCIAL HEADCOUNT:

You nuked your villain arc

You disrespected your only Black lead

You tried to make evil cute

You neutered the myth

And now?

You’re writing another Rey trilogy like we forgot.

We didn’t.

We’re watching. And we’re bringing notes. And if we hear the word girlboss even once?

We are hanging up the phone in your face and publishing an 18-part Patreon exclusive called:

> "How Kathleen Kennedy Rewrote the Apocalypse Into a Pinterest Board"

—

🚨 OPEN DOOR POLICY (CONDITIONAL):

Disney.

Lucasfilm.

I’m talking directly to you now.

You want to be taken seriously again?

Cool. Here’s your checklist:

✅ Let Rey turn dark ✅ Let Finn become myth ✅ Let women fall for power, not romance ✅ Let tragedy pay the bills again

And for God’s sake—

If one of you mentions empowerment arcs without consequence, I swear to the Force I will write a trilogy so good it causes your marketing team to unionize.

—

🔥 FINAL OFFER:

You want your studio to matter again?

Then stop being afraid of evil with a face you recognize. Let women fail. Let men weep. Let characters break.

Or don’t.

And keep releasing oatmeal until your once-galactic empire becomes a cautionary tale taught in film school next to “The Mummy 3.”

You had a god-tier villain with the face of your franchise.

And you benched her so you could sell toothpaste.

Embarrassing.

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[leoleolovesdc]

OK HEAR ME OUT. HEAR. ME. OUT.

AU where Steph and Jason joined forces to beat the shit outta Tim on titans tower:

Steph was also dead (according to a retcom that I heavily dislike she was always alive, but still) and returned to comics roughly two years after Jason, so since comics timelines are disproportionate from IRL time we technically could mashup those two “back from the grave” events on around the same time and have a situation where Jason hears from Talia that after Tim Drake there was another Robin that died and he is intrigued. He does a little digging and finds out that Stephanie is in fact alive and hiding. In this AU Steph may either have actually died and been somehow ressurected, been in a coma for a while or just have had her death faked by Leslie without her consent, regardless, Jason finds Stephanie who is also mad to learn she was forgotten by the people she thought had brought her in and after hearing that her predecessor’s plans include ruining Black Mask’s empire, forcing Bruce to confront his code and beating the shit out of Tim she is all in.

[laurelroadpoetry]

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Throwing out some wild speculation about 809/10 beciase why not!!

Abigail Spencers character is seemingly involved in whatever this thriller stuff is going to be - that seems to revolve around kidnapping Maddie for reasons I haven’t yet figured out (I’m guessing she takes a call about a different kidnapping or something but I don’t know).

So what if she is seemingly a good person but is actually a bad person - one who maybe kidnaps Maddie - Maddie wouldn’t see it coming - because they’ve maybe bonded?

What if she has started dating/hooking up with Buck as a way of getting close to Maddie - what if that is how they meet - not via the case/call!

Because what would be more likely to send buck into an even bigger spiral than if the woman he’s been seeing as a distraction from all the other stuff is actually involved in kidnapping his sister?!

Also the car crash was suss - it feels like she made that accident happen intentionally - some of the things she said and the fact they showed the car coming and her not looking - yeah it all felt deliberate and part of setting up something bigger

[theprinceandthewitch]

Adrien really does need to crash out and go full anti villain at this point.