Flarelord

Just chill out. It's not the end of the world.

Honestly though it's not even at odds with Uzi hating the murder drones and wanting to kill them! Like the topic of her having like a secret Thing for them, fascination, fantasies, what have you. Losing her mom because of them wasn't a joke to her by any means, and like, freeing everyone from living in terror was kind of a deeply personal thing too, as in like, less about being a cool n brave hero (not to say that desire wasn't there at all) and more about proving her dad wrong about his contentment in hiding forever.. and like, leaving her freeling so alone and unloved because he was more preoccupied with, essentially to her, his life's work of hiding, than being there for her. Like kinda in a way she probably blames the murder drones for everything wrong with her life.

But that's the thing y'know, when a part of your identity involves hating something, that's still a type of obsession, and oddly enough even if it's an obsession with killing them, it makes her just by default, the person most interested in the murder drones than anyone (even Doll, because her obsession was one specific drone she had specific beef with. She didn't give a shit about any of the others. Contrast Uzi where it was broad, didn't even matter finding out which one destroyed her family)

But like I rambled about in that post with the fanfic note screenshot.. she's a weirdo outcast with absolutely no one she relates to. And if the whole Khan implying Uzi was already "into cannibalism" is something to consider, well, we don't see all that much what her relationship with her peers was like long term but they were clearly weirded out and scared of her long before the introduction in the pilot.. oh speaking of which, it's kind of funny isn't it, like, the fact she turned a random bland school project into a whole presentation about the murder drones. Like we get the notion it's not the first time she's just done something wildly different instead of actual classwork by the fact the teacher is like, boredly sighing about it .. but do you think that specifically was actually a common topic she would bring up? The murder drones? And just like freak everyone out with her fixation on them? I'm feeling like "probably not that deep" about it in terms of canon lore, BUT! I think there's fun headcanon potential there.

Anyway basically I'm saying like. It's not even at all uncommon for people who have deep fears or disgusts about something to end up very fascinated or even turned on by them. In fact, traumatic experiences can lead to people developing kinks too. I feel like that angle—trauma and obsessive hatred manifesting as sexual fantasies—works really well for Uzi. As funny as it is I don't think at all when she outside she was like "I hope no one comes out of the ominous fog and comes fucks me", and I don't think she found her face off with N at the time hot. It was fucking scary and she for real wanted to successfully kill a murder drone.

But when she WASN'T actually in danger, and it was just her alone with her thoughts.. I can see it being a sort of shameful secret kink thing (even the sticky note about it.. questioning if it was genuinely problematic). And there's that thing I pointed out in my other post too, the fact the note has a drawing of like a handsome "bad boy" and seeing her as beautiful, and how feel it makes a lot of sense to secretly wish to be swooped away by someone who wants and understands her. I'd focused a lot of the romance aspect of that but... The "Uzi was already into cannibalism" thing sure does make me think maybe those fanfics are freakier than I thought......

Like.. what are we even talking here... Is she daydreaming about being eaten? Or is it more like watching one of them kill and eat all her shitty classmates and being like Wow That's Hot and then also she doesn't have to feel that bad I guess cause they suck anyway lol. (I like to think perhaps either depending on her mood)

Like, girl it's autistic as shit and we know she doesn't understand social cues great. So much of her experiences and life revolve around the murder drones so to get it's like obviously a thing to think about a lot so it's a common topic for her fixations and stuff. Everyone else is probably trying to ignore that aspect of their existence but Uzi constantly thinks and talks about it.

I think that's also another interesting aspect of her ostracization like from her perspective this is important and wants to change stuff but for some reason she doesn't really get everyone else freaks out and hates her more for it.

Maybe pushes her interest in the MDs even more cause like her not connecting with people is now kinda linked to them, so people's fear of them and fear of her are kinda connected, which could have to do with the fanfic stuff and 'oh maybe only a monster like that could understand me' kinda thought process

Uzi becoming fixated on DDs and cannibalism because of the way her mother died — leading to her wanting to talk about it with others* but like… to the average worker drone she’s obsessed with a sort of mindless monster designed by humans who mistreated them to kill her and feel nothing about it. That’s like if predatory alien animals were airdropped onto Earth by some cruel force to massacre people by night, and some misunderstood teen (whose own mother was torn apart by them, mind you) started yapping about how much she wants to find one.

That’s a little — to quote V — wierd and concerning. Does.. does she want to die? Does she want everyone else around her to die? What’s her problem?

Really she’s, as the above post put it, autistic as shit and just processing stuff in her own way.

Her giving that presentation in class at the beginning of the show is exposition to us, but towards her classmates it would be a sort of explanation about why she talks about the DDs so often. She’s just trying to explain herself, and everyone including the teacher just shoots her down, even bullying her about it afterwards.

The ‘only a monster could understand me’ vibe is VERY Uzi; I’ve always thought she dealt with that kind of thinking ever since episode 4. She felt awful when her classmates almost immediately accepted V and N into their little group but still ostracized her. Her whole life prior she assumed being an outcast in society is something she can relate to the DDs about, but no. They fit in seamlessly. This isn’t a ‘I’m just with the wrong group of people, if I find some fellow freaks I’ll be right at home’ problem. It’s a her problem. They like the DDs, and even go as far as to flirt with them. But they run from her, and (imo pretend to) forget who she is because they’re still freaked out by her and don’t want to interact with her.

Men made decisions to rape with fellow rapists. They decided sexual abuse and torture were bonding experiences.

And my dad and brothers? Were deeply disturbed by the movie Jennifer’s Body. I was flabbergasted. It’s not scary! It’s not even that gory. But they were horrified by it. These men who grew up on 70s slashers were legitimately shook by 90 minutes of Megan Fox eating a few teenage boys, mostly off-screen.

Similarly, my all-male reading panel for my thesis? Were so disturbed by my synopsis of the film Teeth that they couldn’t even talk about it. One of them said he couldn’t look at his wife for a week after reading it.

Again, grown-ass men who study and teach media for a living. Who definitely watch and enjoy horror movies. One of whom was a huge Tarantino buff. We watched and read worse in his intro to mass media class! But one movie about a girl whose vag could bite was enough to haunt him.

Then of course you have things like the Gone Girl backlash–men yelling that Amy Dunne is evil and women clamoring to assure everyone that they know she is not someone to emulate–the backlash against Carol Danvers, and, more recently, the griping from MRAs against the upcoming film Hustlers, which is about strippers scamming their Wall Street clients.

My conclusion? Most men–at least most straight, cisgender men, who are both my sample population and most of the ones whining that Carol is a “villain”–are perfectly fine with, and desensitized to, media where men do violence to women (horror movies), or men do violence to men (horror and action movies). They’re even sort of fine when women do violence to women (“ooooo cat fight!”).

But they get intensely uncomfortable when women are depicted doing any kind of violence to men, especially in films that tilt the balance of power to the other side of the m/f gender binary beyond a single moment or scene.

So woman as flesh-eating monster with men as her preferred cuisine? Woman who responds to unwanted sexual contact by biting it off? Woman who frames her cheating husband for murder? Woman whose response to harassment–behavior that many of the loudest whiners know is both creepy and reflective of their own thoughts/actions–is to break something?

Too scary. Unacceptable. Disturbing. These men hate being presented with the idea, even in fiction, that their position of power is socially constructed, that it could easily be flipped the other way. It terrifies them.

In feeling that terror, they experience a tiny modicum of what living, existing, moving, being perceived as a woman in the world is like.

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That's it. The one time any one Flight is actually guaranteed a Dom Win. Literally every other week is fair game.

We have consistently gotten QOL updates it's not the devs fault you're not up to date

Auraboas got their lore rewritten like a year ago