#annoyingly

Behold my vision of the anticlimactic Steddie nobody wants to see but maybe some of you kinda dig it anyway:

- Eddie is great at verbalizing his needs, you can't have a qui pro quo with this guy, it's just impossible. Every miscommunication subplot is obliterated by some kind of "I think I need reassurance more than advices" or any flavor of "You did nothing wrong, I just need some space to process this".

- Steve is amazing at de-escalating without deflecting. You just can't have a proper fight dialogue with him, because he's all "It's an important topic but I'm not in the right space to discuss it for now", or even worse "We should have a third part involve to help us with this".

- they're going to couple therapy, and when someone says "but you never fight" they're like "Yeah, because we're going to therapy".

- they have a monthly checkup about all the difficult topics or sensible things, there's a list, they fucking clear out the list guys I swear

- Ronance and Jargyle don't know if they want to ask them for advice or avoid them at all costs because it's infuriating

- they go through multiple stages and configurations with ease: they live together, the not anymore, then maybe again, who knows. They're mono, then they're poly, nothing can stop them. They just talk it through and it works.

A rule I very loosely enforced was that no heroes or antiheroes who killed people were allowed in my S tier. I love Jason Todd, but I can't let someone who kills fall into my top spot. I don't enjoy that in my fiction. My favourite media for DC is stuff like Batman 1966 and Lego DC and Batman: The Brave and The Bold. That should explain a lot of this list. It should also explain some of my other tiers. Oh, and I shoved etta candy and lois lane and rita farr into s tier because I would've guilt tripped myself and probably called myself sexist if I didn't (that sounds weird, but it is true). I seem to relate more to male characters sometimes, but then my brain wants to call me sexist for that (also, I have no proof of my prior statement. My mind's just being a jerk to me). But I swear i'm not! Gods damn it! It might be nothing, it might be I relate better to characters I can see something of myself in (and being male, male characters might have an advantage there?). It doesn't matter. But I had to get this whole thing off of my chest. Because this is awkward, I'm moving the rest of my text below the image. Feel free to keep reading and/or try to ask me questions later. I can't promise I'll have answers, but I'll try to think of something.

Booster Gold is a character I wanted to put in B tier, but I can't. I tend to hate his tv appearances, despite how I continually try to make myself like him. I just see that guy obsessed with fame and who's a shallow time traveller. There's a reason my rewrite of the character for my Justice League Canada series got rid of his time traveller origin story. I can't stand it, sadly. I really, really want to like him. But I can't lie and say I do.

Batman being in C represents my complicated feelings. I like him when he's in the 2004 cartoon, pre crisis comics, the 1960s series, batman: the brave and the bold, stuff like that. I hate batman in almost everything super dark and edgy or boring and grim. I know I'm picky, but I can't help that one. That's just a natural part of me. Green Arrow is only worse because I still somehow hate him more consistently than I do batman. James Arnold Taylor was the best Green Arrow, and I don't hate whoever's doing it for Batwheels.

Not trans woman, not trans girl, not any of that. Just. Vulpes. Nonbinary. It its. Who happens to be transfem. Agh.