ace of swords

ages ago there was some discussion of seven becoming more unemotional and direct the closer she gets to someone because her attempts at personability are a form of masking. which is a really neat character read and very interesting to contrast with b’elanna, who is sort of the opposite, where her prickliness is a form of social armour for the soft and sensitive person she is at her core. very funny then to imagine b7 home life where seven is like (completely devoid of emotion) “i have acquired this bouquet of flowers for my amazing wife. please appreciate them as an expression of my love for you” and b’elanna is absolutely swooning

now you might think that because one of b’elanna’s points of contention in her relationship with tom is that he’s not romantic enough seven’s lack of expressivity would be an issue between the two of them, but consider that b’elanna’s also a bit of a robotfucker and seven is in fact being romantic it’s just in a roboty sort of way. they’ve got their own secret cyborg/engineer language going on and that’s what romance is really all about

She started to transition after 5000 years. It's never too late.

when pacific rim is brought up around me in a "the jaegars are so epic" way and i have to pretend to be Super Normal about raleigh having felt his brother die mid-drift and having to pull himself and their jaegar singlehandedly back to shore and losing all faith in the world and the existing system and mako losing her family to the kaiju and so she grows up training to be a jaegar pilot even though the man who protected and raised her doesn't want to lose her to the kaiju along with the countless others he sent to their deaths and raleigh and mako having that instant connection (and it's debatable whether they want to kiss crazy styles but there's no time to unpack bc they need to save humanity first) and nothing can break it not pentecost or the asshole australian pilot who won't give them a break or even the fucker aliens that live behind the breach and also the two eccentric (gay) scientists who constantly bicker and butt heads coming to an enthusiastic understanding that they have to drift together with a kaiju brain because if geiszler is gonna do it again who but gottlieb is crazy enough to do it with him and the overall act of drifting itself being so intimate and personal because This is the person that knows Everything about you and now you're gonna go out there and murder some kaijus but you're doing it together because you Need each other and and and

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