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I personally view storytelling as a math of the concepts that can't be represented with numbers. If we could, we would put a number on love, hate, anger, fear, desire and such and just make formulas to predict perfectly what happens next. But we can't. Yet we still see patterns in relation to those.

That's what stories are. Your defined characters are sets of variables, you set the scene, which is an equivalent of mathematical operation and get a formula, which should tell you the effects of the set up. That's why when some writers make a story and it feels off, uneaerned, unrealistic (even in completly fantasy settings) we tend to get the idea that it was written wrong way. Because the writer could set up great variables but then they didn't solve the formula properly, so it gave the wrong results.

And by reading these formulas we form an idea of how things operate in the world. We learn that hate leads to suffering, love conquers all, being kind pays off and there are villains in this world to defeat. We won't learn how to conquer dragons, but we might get the idea that every problem can be tackled. We might not find the princess, but we learn that it's worth fighting for love.

In the episode right after Kanan's death, at the specific moment of Ezra doing his little "ene due ..." all is fine, except, in Polish, God dammit, how did I miss it the first time viewing it?

In Polish he says

Boga banta z lothal szczur, Inkwizytor teee...n był gbur

Which roughly translatates to "Boga, banta, lothal's rat, Inquisitor was a burly". Except the way the VA stretches the eee sound, which sounds like he is about to say Polish ę sound and does it long enough to fill it yourself. And many people, me included, would fill it in with

"t ę p y c h u j"

Except it would translate to "Inqusitor is a du#b d)ck".

There is this trait that Marinette exhibits that is crucial to understanding her acions and attitude. I'm not saying noone sees it, actually many people comment around that and probably noone will say they didn't see it, but I can't recall anyone calling it by it's name.

She is an overachiever

And I think it's actually her most important trait, more important than her relationship with Adrien or more recently, her stress of juggling her double life as superhero's leader or her insistence on lying to the world.

She is an overachiever. A kind of person that can't accept taking things easy and not putting maximum possible effort into anything she ever invests. Go big or go home is her attitude. If she imagines something, she will put maximum effort into it.

This ties to, quite literally, everything she engages in.

Her relationship with Adrien? She can't confess for five seasons because she can't accept the though of doing it imperfectly, at the same time can't let it go, because she can't accept the feeling of failure, of giving up.

Her gaming skills? She has to win anytime she plays anything to a point she rarely has the ability to actually enjoy the game.

She has dozens different hobbies and passions, because anything that catches her interest has to be explored to the very end.

Any event she organizes has to be perfect.

Just as she has to be perfect superhero with perfect superhero team has to work perfectly. Thats a defining trait of hers. Is there anything that can't be traced to her need to put everything into it? I don't actually think so.

A person like that will never turn off and relax until someone else points she did everything she could. A person like that won't ever let go of anything. She chose to keep Adrien happy? She will do anything in her power to keep him from ever confronting any negative reality. She forms a superhero team? She does anything in her power for things to run smothly. She is Adrien's girlfriend? She won't miss on any possible way to be perfect for him, give it making sure his friends like her or that he never sees anything wrong with her.

I don't know about you, but for me it's a perfect combination of "relatable" with "personal fantasy". I, as probably many people around, would like to always make sure I did everything in my power to make sure things are how I imagined them. That need it relatable. But it's also a fantasy, because she does it all, while I fumble, put away and procrastinate so much. That's why I, and I believe it will resonate with many people, found her compelling.

But the story also, especially in newer seasons, as much complaining as we can give them, presents the dangers of that attitude really well. It presents how always prioritizing the end goal can make us ignore basic social norms and moral compass, just as how much anxiety this attitude can give us.

(thats my favourite little scene of these two ❤️)

Ezra can be skilled Jedi. Even before season 3 "glow up" he could pull off so many hard flings. With his hole team on his side he seems to be helpfull padawan, focused on the task and protecting his friends with a grain of need of proving himself. Then there is a time he gets teamed up with Commander Sato and almost single handently pulls of all to be pulled off (I know Kanan and Rex were also sent there but come on, Ezra had everything under control on his own).

Preety much the same when he has mission individually with anyone else, Kanan, Hera, Rex, Kallus, Zeb.

And the he gets paired with Sabine

He get's so much "dumbass energy" activated, the "don't know what I'm doing but swinging my sword worked so far". And poor Sabine has to work with that.