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And this is going to make a lot of people very angry to hear.

But a lot of y'all on this website are truly deeply genuinely never going to be capable of any kind of real narrative analysis--and I don't mean 'being right all the time' I mean 'meaningfully engaging with the text in any way'--

The match cuts were meticulously designed and put there to communicate something.

The VA's delivery of a line was being directed. Inflection and tone change the meaning of dialogue. This is intentional. There are entire teams of people shaping those choices and deciding which take to use based on what works best for the story.

Information is being revealed in a specific order, on purpose, to craft an emotional arc and guide the audience's understanding.

A character's romantic preferences are only, and SHOULD only be, their primary motivation if the genre is romance. That is why there is a genre called that. Most stories are other genres.

Creators who dislike a character generally give them LESS attention, MORE boring storylines, and LESS screentime.

Sometimes curtains are just blue. But if the shot composition or written narration takes time to HIGHLIGHT, especially more than once, that the curtains are blue, then the blueness of the curtains is by definition narratively important.

"Cite your sources" is not a witch's curse that banishes People With Different Opinions to the shadowrealm of Being Wrong. Someone making points that challenge your perceptions, while including screenshots and explicit examples, cannot be dismissed with "cite your sources" because they are literally doing that. Don't @ me on this one I've seen shit in the wars, y'all.

Failing to understand these things WILL bar you from ever really engaging with or understanding any narrative more complicated than Paw Patrol for the rest of your life.

When it comes to fandom culture specifically, I think that the recent online vitriol towards indie creators stems from both the desire to “fix” the things that make us uncomfortable, as well as the anxiety that develops when we feel powerless to enact real change. On the surface, it seems weird for internet lefties to spend more effort bullying small creators than large corporations, because those small creators are often making art that is more personal (and oftentimes politically-progressive) than mass-produced corporate media. Peel away the top layers, though, and you’ll find that it’s about a desire for control. The mega-corporations won’t bother to create art that will speak to you on a personal level* because that will NEVER be cost-effective, so trying to pressure them to change feels as useless as an ant vowing to crush a mountain beneath its feet; the indie creators, however, are individuals and small groups, and an ant COULD theoretically annoy them into “making better decisions”.

It sounds logical, at least at first; the problem, of course, is that it isn’t sound logic. The indie creators are small enough that you could theoretically bully them into changing their ways, yes, but this strategy forgets that the creators are trying to realize something personal to them, not to you, and that they only have a limited amount of effort and resources they can apply to the project before they lose that passion to work on it. Oftentimes, the perceived flaws in the work are completely reasonable when you consider the context around them: for context about the two creators mentioned in the original post:

Toby Fox (creator of Undertale and Deltarune) was asked about the lack of official localization for his games into other languages besides English and Japanese, and he explained that he currently has no plans to translate his games at this time. The process of localizing a script is an amount of work equivalent to writing a full new game, which is time-consuming for a largely-independent creator. The games are available in English and Japanese because Fox is fluent in those languages, so he can write the English script himself, hire someone to write the Japanese localization, and then edit the Japanese script himself to maintain accuracy. In response to this, some fans insisted Fox was discriminating against fans from Latin America and China by not producing an official translation in Spanish, Portuguese or Chinese, which ended up growing into accusations of Fox being outright racist.

Gooseworx (creator of The Amazing Digital Circus) has wound up embroiled in two recent online controversies. In the first, she responded to a question about the finale by saying that the show’s central characters are Pomni and Jax, which resulted in fans getting outraged at her alleged “favoritism” towards certain characters in her own show. In the second, she responded to news of the finale leaking with a post that said “Eh, who cares?”, prompting accusations of her devaluing the work of the animators. After this, she wrote a post indicating that she had lost her enthusiasm for TADC, which prompted further discourse over whether or not she was attempting to “guilt-trip” the rabid factions of the fanbase.

We’ve also seen similar things occur with other popular indie projects: Dana Terrace (Knights of Guinevere) was accused of transphobia for confirming that a character on the show was not transgender, for example, and I’ve seen some efforts to spark discourse against indie successes such as Dropout.tv (“they’re just trying to scam their fans!”) and Markiplier’s Iron Lung (“not a real indie movie because he spent $2 million on it!”). In some of these cases, the problem is an understandable frustration that the creator simply can’t resolve on their own, while in others the problem lies in the fans themselves. Meanwhile, megacorporations do have the resources to improve and diversify their work, but often choose not to do so for financial or political reasons: Paramount and WB have been quietly killing their animation divisions, for instance, and Disney’s begun winding down their pride-themed Marvel Voices comics out of fear of conservative backlash**.

In many ways, I think that the logic that’s on display here is the same mindset that’s been causing the American left to cannibalize itself for years now: we’re so desperate to feel like we’re fighting for a righteous cause that we start throwing punches at anyone within reach, rather than waiting to throw down with a real enemy that seems unassailable. “The conservatives are a monolith, and too far gone to be reasoned with,” we rationalize, “so we must make our voices heard to those allies that will listen!” And then, if those allies aren’t with us all the way, they’re recast as enemies in disguise that must be destroyed to keep our movement pure. We’re left to rip each other to pieces in the glorified shadow of that conservative monolith, a monument unassailed by hands brave enough to learn just how fragile it really is.

Elaborate metaphors aside, there is a simple solution to this: shut up, listen, then think. If someone’s decisions make you uncomfortable, think long and hard about why that is before you start writing callout posts and organizing a pitchfork brigade. Sometimes, you’ll find that the decisions are reasonable; other times, you’ll find that they’re not. Either way, nobody’s forcing you to like an indie creator, and you’re free to choose whether or not you still want to engage with their work.

Whatever you do, remember that the work in question isn’t really made for you, it’s being made to share with you. Art isn’t a restaurant, it’s a potluck: creators bring the stuff they’ve made to the table, and you are welcome to eat what you’d like of it. If there’s bits of stuff you don’t like in the dish, you’re allowed to pick those out and not eat ‘em, and you’re even free to express your personal distaste for that. Maybe your comments will even be taken into consideration! But if you choose to instead throw your plate across the room, yell at the creator for not making the recipe to your tastes, and try to rally others to do the same… well, you’ll just look like an asshole, there’s a strong chance that the creator might not bring anything next time, and you’re still gonna wind up hungry. And where’s the comfort in that?

What does it mean to be an individual. Sapient and with traits. What even are traits, how can one define their self. Through stereotypes? Through such superficial things as what we like, how we dress?

Uzi likes her hot topic stuff. She presents herself as a goth through clothes, and she seems to associate this with an edgy sort of personality. But that's such a damn mask. We can see it right in the first episode - *this* bitey angry girl is a shield, because goddamnit if she doesn't have it drawn then that's just asking to be hurt, isn't it?

She *is* angry deep down, at injustice, but she's also a confused distraught kid with nobody to lean on. No place, no one to find safety in - no home despite having a place to lie her head down.

And then N shows up and he's hurt too, but doesn't have it in him to successfully mask who he really is (boy's shit at lying + too nice). His inherent vulnerability to the world that stings him over and over again with others, unintentionally peels off Uzi's mask.

And who is she without it?

She's a reassuring gentle smile. Worried searching eyes. A goofy jokester. A little bit shy, flustered, giddy mess. She's a kind, loving, listening idiot that's ready to throw herself into hell for someone dear to her.

She is all this normally. Buried deep as a survival tactic. (And she is so damn strong too, because despite being a kind person deep in there, she doesn't allow anyone to break her.) But she finally could experience herself free thanks to someone finally being genuine and warm, giving her the invintation to find a home in him. Through her interactions with her home, N, we get to slowly meet the true Uzi Doorman.

But they forget that at her core, she's actually kind.

She had every right to leave N dying at the doors after J stabbed him. For all she knew this was the guy that killed her mom. The reason her dad neglected her for all these years. Hell, he's the reason her dad left her just a few minutes ago.

But she stayed.

She saw the wounded and hurt boy who was just doing as he was programmed to, who had the wool pulled over his eyes and got a reality check in the worst way possible by someone he looked up to. She looked at him, saw herself...and she wasn't sure if she liked that or not. So she took the higher road (while still passing it off as a 'fiiiine I'll help...but only because we'll be even then'.) and helped him.

There's far too many stories and comics and other things out there with her being this absolutely horrible person to N...to everyone. Because "well, she's an angry and bitey teenager so she gets to be horrible!" but that's not the truth like, at all.

Yeah, she's got a bit of a god complex...but when she realizes she f*cked up, she goes to fix what she's done. Which is a lot more to say about her than some other people I know...

This teenage girl had the world turn its back on her. So she threw up walls to keep herself and that little spark of hope she still had kindled, that hope of someone caring about her and treating her like she mattered. That she wasn't something to throw away...like she'd been treated most of her life. I know this is rich coming from me since I'm one of Khan's greatest defenders but like...yeah, he f*cked up. Intentionally or unintentionally, there's no skirting around that. He neglected her...whether that was out of grief from losing Nori and being unable to look at Uzi due to their similarities or devotion to protect his and Nori's Greatest Work it doesn't matter. (though he gets better at trying to make it up to his baby girl, I'll fight people on that bite me.)

And then. And THEN. Here comes this golden retriever wolf boy. Who shattered every barrier just because he is who he is. Who gently hopped over the walls she threw up and sat next to her to tend that little spark of hope until it became a blaze. A blaze that eventually was strong enough to stand up against the devil itself.

Then the camp happened and she just...broke. Everything went upside down again. She was losing control of her body, gaining new powers she didn't understand...hell there was flesh growing out of her when there really should not be!! She was scared and hurting and confused so she lashed tf out. Which was kinda natural.

Her fear wasn't that N was going to think she was a monster. Her fear was that he, this source of light in her world that had been so dark for so long...was going to abandon her. Like everyone else in her life, her mom...her dad...her classmates...everyone had done to her before. And that scared her more than anything.

Uzi's a very complex character. People just look surface level and see "Oh god a scene kid with god complex and god powers ew." But that's just who she is. She's soft where no one can see, but hard and sharp edges that refuse to be sanded down everywhere else.

Because she had to learn to be that way.

V and Uzi are similar, but different. Yes, both of them are mentally unstable women that N (and fandom) had a crush on at some point. However, there is much more than that. Here is my funny-killer-robots analysis.

Uzi had her family split when she was a baby; she never knew the warmth of a home and a family. On the other hand, V had a decent semblance of it, until Cyn took it. (Whether it is better to know & loose or to never know - is a question I will leave for philosophers.) And Cyn would replace N anytime he learned something he shouldn't.

Thankfully, Cyn and V have made a deal that could salvage this mess. V just needed to do a single job and she did it well. In fact, work has turned into a hobby. A mindless habit even! Too bad that, it consisted of murdering everybody. This is the source for a very twisted spark of hope or maybe even delusion she had. V has masked so much for so long that, it became part of her. Even Uzi avoids killing roaches and reassembles them, while V just eats them.

And after of years of doing a good job, this purple thing waltzes in and defeats V? A fluke, she had N on her side. Then this red creep defeats V with the same power Cyn used? That could be a problem... that Uzi resolves with the power of "teamwork". This "teamwork" thing seems a bit better than Cyn's deal.

...Then it turns out that, Uzi also has Cyn's powers and symbols. Uzi must be Cyn then, right? So, V decided to provoke the wolf-in-sheep's-clothing until it reveals itself. It worked; the monster ate the classmates and it asks where N is to eat him as well.

...And another plot twist, Uzi is not Cyn after all. N just talks Uzi out of it and she just stops. So, that's how this "teamwork" works. At this point, V finally "gets" how to not rely on murder for everything and the value of being honest & friendly for a change.

V, unlike Uzi, has roughed out the soft parts as well. That is how V has managed to ignore N for years despite all his attempts to open her up. She is a hardened professional. Fortunately, even professionals have limits and her limit is an adventure with Uzi and N to save the world.

Compare N's feed with Uzi's:

(Pilot & ep. 4)

His shit is so damn pixelated it makes me laugh, Uz is like 8 squares to him god bless. They remind me of cats quite a bit, both with the forced yellow colour pallete (cat's got that and like. blue. grey...) and the nearsightedness. Neat is that they've got two secondary feeds, one darker and one sharper. Night vision and different angle, maybe? Something like what chameleons have with narrowing down on prey? Saving CPU by having the high resolution secondary?

Then V and Doll's victim from the beginning of ep 3, both in need of glasses.

Interesting that there's basically two versions of eye decay, the biological-esque (blurring) and then the pixelation of DD's.

Other thing I adore about the feeds is the WD on-screen programs. Uzi had her playlist at the ready during the most intense fight of her life, Bluey Kelsey down there was ready to delete her search history before croaking I fucking guess. The Task manager, Kelsey's telling time while Uzi's is so very helpful with pin pointing her location (,,Dude we're in SPACE"). The calculator on hand and the goddamn- what is it. App list?

App for headlights, bluetooth sharing, cloud connection, friend list, ideas?? Damn. Got a fridge pre-installed as well.

(CAN SOMEONE PLEASE VERIFY IF ALL THIS INFORMATION ON THE TEMPERATURES IS CORRECT?)

Anyone can repost this without credit

Heat resistance:

If we assume the drones are made out of iron: Steel begins to lose strength around 204C (400F) and structural integrity around a 593C (1,100°F). Pure iron melts around 1,537C (2,800F) while many steel alloys begin to melt around 1,232C - 1,593F (2,250F - 2,900°F).

If we assume the worker drones are made out of lithium, or at-least their battery based on Uzi’s POV (unless if this was just the name of the song she was playing since the top- “DEAD BATTERIES” is the canon name of a worker drone music band, & it also says DRONE AMP above): Lithium-iron batteries have a max safe operating temperature of 60C - 70C (140F - 158F).

EDIT: Lithium is just the name of the song she was listening to.

Uzi, Doll, N & Cyn have resisted explosions in episodes 1, 2, 3, 4 & 7 which are 2,480C (4,496F). Military bomb tests have documented temperatures of 2,480C - 4,500C (4,496F - 8,132F). It makes sense for the disassembly drones to be around these ranges since disassembly drones were created by Cyn to fight back against humanity, & they have tanked missiles & the explosions from them before.

The temperature of hypersonic missiles (the disassembly drones missiles are extremely likely to be hypersonic missiles) can exceed around 1,600C (3,000F) which N, V, J, Doll, Cyn & Lizzy have all tanked before.

Brandon, a worker drone is perfectly fine despite his head being on fire for several days - weeks. Fire generally ranges from 500C - over 3,000C (932F - 5,432F). However, there’s sparks that appear right before his head catches on fire. Fires started by electricity (arcs, sparks, or short circuits) range from 2,760C - a little over 5,500C (5,000F to over 9,932F, likely 10,000F).

Both nerfed solver hosts (dissasembly drones) & full solver hosts (solver host drones from the labs, Uzi, Nori, Doll & Cyn) can also resist high-temp microwaves, which only makes them sluggish according to Alice. Specialized high-temperature processing microwaves can exceed over 1,000C (1,832F).

Uzi & N also survive re-entry which typically reaches between 2,500C - 3,000C (2,500F - 5,000F) (they likely would’ve had to tank this in the spaceship explosion). Low-Earth orbit shuttle re-entries in specific peak around 1,500C (2,700F).

Shock layer plasma is a highly ionized, dense gas region formed between a body and a detached shock wave, typically at hypersonic speeds. It constitutes a thin layer where flow changes from supersonic to subsonic & temperatures range from 6,726C (7,000K or 12,140F) - 14,726C (15,000K or 26,540F). Disassembly drones have consistently shown that they can reach subsonic - supersonic+ & hypersonic speeds. Shock layer plasma also occurs during re-entry from space.

In episode 6, Nori while controlled by Cyn buries down into copper 9 towards its core to start devouring it. This is heavily implied in N’s flashback in episode 7 & then happens again at the end of episode 7 towards the start of episode 8 where Cyn herself devours whatever is left of the planet. If we assume that copper 9’s core is the same as earth’s, then Nori would’ve had to tank around 6,000C (10,800F - 10,832F).

Hear resistance - Tessa’s spacesuit:

Tessa’s spacesuit would’ve likely been protecting her from all the fine silicate particles (abestos) & also the low temperatures of the planet. Spacesuits can resist freezing temperatures of -156C - 121C (-248F - 249.8F)

Results:

Minimum temperatures: 1,600C (3,000F) (tanking hypersonic missiles). 2,480C - 4,500C (4,496F - 8,132F) (military bomb tests). 2,760C - a little over 5,500C (5,000F to over 9,932F, likely 10,000F) (electricity fires). 6,000C (10,800F - 10,832F) (planet’s core).

Max temperatures: 6,726C (7,000K or 12,140F) - 14,726C (15,000K or 26,540F) (shock layer plasma).

Heat resistance - items the disassembly drones create (SPECULATIVE & HIGHLY DEBATABLE):

In the end credits, J creates a plasma torch to fix the spaceship. The weapons disassembly drones have to create is stated to be stored via a hammerspace. But given that V is only able to switch to her claws with one hand after it’s freed from the table restraints (in episode 6) connected to the inside of her arm, it’s possible that they store their weapons in their bodies with their bodies acting as / their insides / their nerfed solvers possessing a hammerspace. Therefore, their bodies MIGHT need to internally tank the temperature it emits when they first create it.

Oxy-fuel torches range from 3,100C - 3,500C (5,612F - 6,332F). Plasma torches range from 10,000C - over 30,000C (18,032F - over 54,032F).

There’s something that I missed!

In episode 8, if you slow down the scene then you can see Uzi’s finger grazes the accretion disk of the NULL before she throws it. This is further proven by the top of her finger glowing red from the heat & smoke coming out of it which she blows away.

For thermal radiators detecting the human body, this is 730 °C (1,350 °F).

For thermal radiation, in practice, virtually all solid or liquid substances start to glow around 525C (977F; 798K), with a mildly dull red color (it was bright red so we know solver hosts can go higher than this) (source -> characteristics -> “Subjective color to the eye of a black body thermal radiator” chart).