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List 10 favourite characters from 10 different fandoms, and then tag 10 people
tagging @soratsuart @gamersagainstthemachine @strengthofmayhem and anyone reading this who wants to! (i get a bit shy about tagging if we havent spoke) (also no pressure to continue!)
under the cut + some additional rambling:
Rue (Princess Tutu)
up there among favorite antagonists/anti-villains
perfectionist with deep-rooted insecurity. at her core she just wants to be loved, and almost everything she does screws her (& Mytho) over in pursuing it.
in one of her early scenes she tells her puppet-like, literally heartless boyfriend to say he loves her. He does.
Agott (Witch Hat Atelier)
i love her arc of rediscovering her passion/heart after everyone around her stamped it down.
how she and Coco elevate each other is wonderful. So is her baby crush on her.
deeply 12 years old. Studious and perfectionist and narrow-minded at first. I like that she's depicted as selfish at times.
Vergil (Devil May Cry)
i dont think this one's a surprise
I love a guy who keeps screwing himself over because he doesn't realise what he actually wants and already has. To the point of stabbing out everything that makes him him. Great villain & foil & Dante's annoying nerd brother.
v v v fun to beat up & play as.
Ayda Mensah (Murderbot Diaries)
When I read All Systems Red, Mensah's leadership and presence was really nice to read. You could see why everyone respects her so deeply. She did her best to lead through awful situations and cared deeply for her team and was also ride or die to pull off batshit plans.
Cannot emphasise enough, I love how Martha Wells depicts Mensah's leadership style.
Always looked forward to the bits where Mensah & Secunit interact.
Cyclonus (Transformers/MTMTE/Lost Light)
his arc with Whirl & Tailgate was the best part of MTME for me
Stoic intimidating bot falls so so so hard for someone and all his goopy emotions spilled out
Goes from trying to kill Whirl to basically them being QPP.
Lelouch (Code Geass)
this show has a lot of issues.
but teen me had so much fun watching this guy go ham & screw himself & everyone around him over
Alucard/Arikado Genya (Castlevania)
popping Arikado's pic here because this is the funniest turn Alucard could have gone. government agent fakename-mcDarkGuy. Babysitting his evil father's reincarnation.
I think there's a lot unsaid about Arikado seeing his father move on & break the generational curse on the Tepes & Belmont families
v v v fun to play as beautiful tragic dhampir prince.
Ao Bing (Nezha 2019/2025)
v v v good bestie & foil to Nezha. Tries to do good by his family & entire people. He is 2 years old.
Unflinchingly polite young boy with a lot of passion that bursts out. Don't see that often.
Enjoy the intertextuality that in the OG tale, him & Nezha should have killed each other as enemies. Difference is that their parents care so much about them in a new way. Whole films tackle family ties very well.
Protoman (Megaman - Archie comics)
his plot was the best part of the Archie run. Little robot boy with a core defect runs away thinking his creator wants to fix him (at risk of deleting his entire sense of self). Comes back & thinks he's been replaced with new robot kids. Crashes out.
He's Rock & Roll's wayward brother. You want to see him become that.
Hitori Gotoh (Bocchi the Rock)
this show and this character were so funny & charming.
Also she can get so in her head & value things like fame & popularity & the nice comments she gets on her youtube channel. I like that she's very imperfectly human.
She spends the whole show trying to get out there & when she succeeds you really root for her.
