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It’s kinda hard for me to imagine Duke’s story as apolitical though I’m sure it’s possible. Best case scenario is just easing them into We Are Robin as his friends, even if they don’t know them enough to characterize them?

Some apolitical centrist crap or whatever in the DUKE FANDOM. Wrong place to be apolitical, buddy!

I do kinda agree though that if Duke must absolitely have to (🙄😒) work with metahuman rights, minority racial allegory plot, then I guess he should at least be teamed up with a character whose only personality is that. Y’know?

Not really a big deal. But it is archetypal as a replacement for personality. I’m the one who deserves to feel offended, don’t catch me with that “be more leftist” centrist crap when they didn’t even bother caring about PoC characters. Anyway, I personally think it’s offensive level is pretty low considering Izzy and Riko can be overly emotional traumatized strong badasses, neither of which cancels out. Izzy doesn’t need to be unafraid of Joker to prove her femininity isn’t weak. Same way that Dre doesn’t need to be not scared of Joker to prove his strength masculinity or whatever. Literally doesn’t matter, okay. Being scared emotional whatever has little to do with gender. Y’all subtly genderizing personalities. Switching girl vs boy dynamics doesn’t suddenly make it more progressive either.

Riko has a complicated family life because it’s actually pretty good and loving. The problem is just miscommunication and not understanding each other. Love isn’t enough. If they had a longer runtime, I think them restraining Riko due to overprotectiveness would’ve made for a good reoccurring drama conflict. It kinda reminds me of Tim’s arc with his father.

The key part of why I say that is because it’s random. Their beat changes and lyrics are super random. That’s the thing I think he doesn’t understand, things that “sound random” aren’t actually random. Throwing toilet paper on a public space dramatically has nothing to do with your song. Metaphors are a literary device that everyone can understand. It might take more effort to get it, but neurodivergent metaphors shouldn’t be too difficult to understand.