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here’s a bunch of random facts about presley! she is a new muse so i don’t know too much about her, but hopefully this group lets me figure it out. if you wanna plot or have something in mind, feel free to hit me up in the ims because i’m most likely to check those, or on discord at  teejay#3306. otherwise i do prefer chem just so we can figure out something super neat together down the line!

presley was conceived during a short relationship between her mother and a man whom the only thing she shares with is her surname. when she came into the picture, she was destined for “great things”: which coincidentally is what the poster says in her family’s motel breakroom. instead of being ready to take on the world, she was expected to take on the family motel after her mother leaves the business and live in their small home that she grew up in underneath. when she was six she was already shadowing her mother, when she was fifteen she was helping out where she could after school, and when she graduated high school she began running the front desk full time and never got the chance to go to college or get out of this awful town. not like she could afford to, but still.

as strange and aloof presley acts, she has plans. right now she’s saving up to go to college anywhere not here to be an arachnologist. for her tenth birthday all she wanted was a pet tarantula and when she finally got her rose hair tarantula named charlotte she was estatic and her obsession escalated from there to a dream career for her. if you need a spider removed from your house or what sort of spider you need to hypothetically kill a guy, she’s all yours.

so regarding the creature in the woods, presley never was told about it directly until she started school when she met a kid who told her everything about it. at first she was scared, but it started her down the path of liking creepy stuff. truth be told, she doesn’t think there’s actually a monster that eats people or accepts sacrifices, but she does agree that something has to be out there in the woods that are causing some of the disappearances and conspiracies, which is why she’s out there on the hunt to find out what it is to prove that it’s not some demon. that and boredom.

she’s totally, completely, and utterly gay. she found out when she realized her first crush was elvira from the cheesy horror movie show she hosted and that presley would watch whenever she had a chance. now she’s slowly grown up to watching scarier films and true crime.

while she’s always wondered who her father was, she’s never really pressed on the matter. people have told her plenty of names and rumors have been whispered around her, but she kind of respects her mother’s privacy. if she doesn’t know she’s probably not meant to and besides, he wasn’t part of her life anyways. even if she’s kind of stuck in this kind of motel life at least her mom’s been there for her through all of it. she’ll never admit that though.

ugh, the hawkeye in tokyo bit was so irritating. i know it’s not a new thing for marvel/action movies, but it’s SO TIRING. i’m so tired of “white guy visits random foreign setting” because [foreign setting] + [foreign noun(s)] are aesthetically pleasing and make for flashy fight scenes. while watching, i was thinking, “really? we’re still doing stuff like this... okay...” but i mean... this was just a surprise sucker-punch to my stomach because i just—it doesn’t help. it doesn’t help that the only main cast poc guy here is don cheadle, IT DOESN’T HELP THAT T’CHALLA + PRACTICALLY ALL THE OTHER MAJOR BLACK PANTHER CHARACTERS WERE WIPED OUT IN THE LAST MOVIE. and the ones who survived barely do anything in this movie (before the last battle), SO YEAH.

the more i think about steve’s ending, the more ??? i get. like my initial assumption was that he created a split timeline when he went back, which would mean that peggy and her kids and her family all still happen—just in the prime timeline. and i’m guessing he deals with bucky and everything else in the new split timeline he creates? (it sucks that we don’t get to see all of that, but... okay... i guess???)

when i thought about it more later, though... like if the split timeline is true then...??? how is older steve there, sitting on the bench, existing in the same timeline as them?

one could say that steve just saved the particles to travel back to the prime timeline or whatever when he thought it was the right time, but then why didn’t he just reappear in the time machine? like the way everyone else did when they completed their missions in the past??? if they wanted a more aesthetically pleasing shot or something (older steve just chilling on a bench is nicer, idk???) then fine... i guess???

but yeah, even after taking all of the plot happenings into account, i just... don’t think it fits steve’s character very much...? isn’t the whole thing with him about learning how to move on despite all he’s lost, and about finding a life and place for himself even if it’s in a world that is now unfamiliar to him???

like i said before, if the movie didn’t seem to be so focused on “moving on after tragedy,” i don’t know how i’d feel about it. as it stands, though, it’s just... very weird if you try to do both: if you show people moving on, living with what they’ve lost, and then you show steve rogers just peacing out back to the past—and closing the entire movie out that way. like choose one or the other, but not both because now everything seems to contradict one another, and i’m not sure what to take away from the film anymore.

i mean there probably is a way to do both, sure, but... uh. i just don’t think this was it.

i get not everything has to be “deep” but... that just goes back to another problem i had with endgame. the tone flip flops all over the place and it feels like it doesn’t know what it wants to be. if you’re going for a somber movie—opening with hawkeye losing his entire family, UHHH yeah—then be smarter with the humor instead of making so many of these random slapstick (ant-man) / fat jokes. like what happens to thor in the last five years is fucking tragic, but it’s like the movie wants me to laugh at him instead (ie. thor having a heartfelt meeting with his mom who tells him to “eat a salad” before he leaves)? what?! which one is it???

oh wow... i forgot about sharon carter. that’s a good point. :U

frankly, i thought the movie would end with them dismantling the time machine technology or whatever—maybe steve looking longingly at the peggy picture and closing it for the last time, finally choosing to move on (this happened in captain america: winter solider already imo but FINE), as the machine blew up.