There Are No Grown Ups

The Commander/Pitfighter arc is still so unreal. We took the Cool Shonen Protagonist and turned her to a sad drunk that loses all her fights but won’t quit. She’s a leather dyke now, her game model is flagging that she likes to be on the receiving end of a fist, she plays out a scene where she subs and brats for an authoritarian cop. She has an emote where she sobs how she’s not over the ex she keeps hallucinating Dead Wife style. Meanwhile we upgraded the Nancy Drew wannabe Love Interest into a tormented Bishounen Gundam villain who is gazing into the abyss so hard her conspiracy-obsessed ass somehow misses she’s banging a spy. She constantly looks like she’s going to have a breakdown and is one tense-jaw’d monologue away from going full Anakin-under-Palpatine in her mentorship with Ambessa, it’s only being such a loser for just one more chance with That Drunk Mess that pulls her out of her Girlboss spiral. Even then, they both almost die without properly reconciling. This would have killed 16yo me.

Adding onto this about how delightful it was that Vi didn’t do anything to pull Caitlyn out of her spiral except show up. I expected Caitlyn’s villain era for years, but I always anticipated Vi’d have a big moment snapping her out of it. But no. Caitlyn wanted to kiss her so bad it made her brave stupid. Ship of all time.