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Sam participated in an attempted genocide, and while he was being pushed by Cate, he asked her to do it because he believed the guilt was the problem, not his actions.

Cate brainwashed her friends and participated in an attempted genocide and fucked with her boyfriend's head so much he ended up killing himself.

Andre, may he rest in peace, fucked his best friend's girl for months before he died.

Jordan saw Luke be mistreated, abused, drugged, and brainwashed and didn't say anything for who knows how long and was ready to do anything for that number one spot.

Yes they changed, yes they evolved, but they did do these things. And that's what we call a complex character and good writing.

Marie used her powers on her friends not to attempt a genocide, but in an attempt to save them. She made mistakes. She's a complex character. Anyone coming into my posts or going to the tags and being weird about her will either get blocked if I'm in a good mood or cussed out if I'm in a bad mood.

intelligence-based emily character?? already deadly. she was once the spitfire of the crew but now she's haunted, hollow, vengeful? she might be a revenant bc you can't convince me marya wouldn't live & die by "captain goes down with the ship"? she crashes into a wasp just so she can personally shoot their engine out? she has a pet rat with a mech suit that's more than ready to beat the shit out of intruders? she runs a toy shop with her aunt zuzu? inspired.

nepo baby child of true libertarians beardsley character? & a rogue at that? already getting flashbacks to liam wilhelmina. on top of that she's a trans fangirl that her grandma knew would need to be protected at all costs? you can tell she's imagining herself on an adventure with monty when she's lassoing the pheasants, that "easy girl" is a direct quote. they're at the height of their power.

lou pulling out a ranger, i think the first wisdom-based character of his since kingston brown. he's a bestselling author, he's an environmental advocate, his voice is quiet (very close to lou's eursulon voice imo), he hangs off the side of a ship to riddle the deck with bullets, he's silent when he marks his quarry and kills without hesitation. he pulled his tooth out to give it to a boar. my god he's perfect.

siobhan "i don't think i have any beefy characters" thompson rolling up with a fighter, born into & bred for sailing, fighting, and giving orders. she's never heard of sunscreen, she's the crew's hardass mom, she'll go down before she lets anyone touch marya, she greets adrenaline & blood with the same fondness as her cinnamon roll of a husband. she will protect her family at all costs. immaculate.

zac. fucking. oyama. the old southern man of all time. he's wanted, by the law and by many others. he's divorced. he lived with a pack of coyotes to cope with the heartbreak. he swore to protect your family where you couldn't. he's a gunslinger. his best friend is a labrador that's been called "ghost dog" since he was a puppy 38 years ago. his guns are called "biscuits" & "gravy". you can see some of his greatest hits coming together to form a new fan favorite. brennan WILL fuck that old man before the season ends.

don't even get me started on whatever the fuck Maxwell Gotch has going on. murph, who just wants to be a good good boy and punch bad guys, once again putting himself on the front lines. he's out & proud at college but closeted at home, he loves his grandfather, he's reclaiming "rowdy", he only removes his gloves by biting them. he wakes up every day at 5am to do a thousand squats. he gets bloodlust so potent he damn near kills himself in the process of killing three other dudes, and vomits when he comes down from the high & realizes what just happened. he made dawderdale orgasm just by talking to her. murph's dice have been waiting for this moment. he's pompous, he's violent, we all know he's queer, & he's already my favorite of the season so far.

plus, the npc's? adding wealwell to the long tradition of needing a gilear or alphonse the mule? and you can't convince me that bert isn't going to be the obscenely magic old man this season he's gonna pull a sawed off shotgun out of his aioli or something he's the plug strut of the season i'm calling it.

I love all the girls, okay?! I mean how can you not?!

But can I talk about a Mira for a second? Because like imagine if this movie was out like 10 or 5 years ago and how much would be different? Especially the girls and their characters.

Honestly when the movie started I thought they would go for the same trope as the power puff girls with each of them having one character trait that they use throught the movie. I mean even their backstory would fit and work for that.

But man was it different.

From the start Mira was a lot more than the stoic, sarcastic archetype that I feared she would be. She is funny, girly, loves their fans as much as other girls and more importantly loves her girls so much. And she doesn't hide it. It isn't some secret, she isn't being mean, making sarcastic jokes or creating tension out of thin air. No she loves them and neither Rumi nor Zoey question it. Nobody who watched the movie would say oh there is main character, cute bubbly character and one who loves their group but is too afraid to show it. NO! Mira shows it!

And how she shows it? In the second half of the movie she is reaching out to Rumi to figure out what's wrong. Multiple times. She tries and fails. And isn't that great how the movie doesn't use Zoey as a bridge between girls just because? Isn't that great how writers give all the girls personality and traits and humanize them and treats them with as much care and respect as they do Rumi and Jinu.

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