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My jaw literally dropped. No way you also know 12 Miles Below

Man. If it only weren’t for frequent life-threatening danger and even more frequent quests/responsibilities, these ships could have been together. But that’s what brought them this close to each other in the first place. Augh the very nature of what brought them together denies them from getting closer.

Basically this:

[Image ID from alt text: A graph of potential energy vs distance. The curve reaches the minimum of potential energy at a non-zero distance.]

Longer ID below. [Image ID: A graph of potential energy of a two-atom system versus inter-nuclear distance. There is a minimum of potential energy at a non-zero distance; to either side of the minimum, the energy rises. As distance approaches zero, energy approaches infinity asymptotically; as distance approaches infinity, energy approaches zero asymptotically.

There are several other labels: “repulsion” for the positive energy quadrant, “attraction” for the negative energy quadrant, “equilibrium bond length” for the distance at which energy is a minimum, and “bond energy” for the energy at its minimum. The axes are labeled, and the graph is labeled BYJU’s, the website that displayed the graph.

/End ID]

“The” Reaper spoiler character, walking away from his devastated homeland, with the caption “A new persona with the same old flaws” (song — Battle Tapes: Brand New)

That If Only thing of Yerin reaching down to Lindon but better (song — Battle Tapes: If Only)

“The” Reaper character, again, kneeling in the ashes. A divided scene of red and blue ahead of him: red, the portal to the BFE; blue, an opening to the Way. (song — Paradigm: Leslie Wai, or rather the music video Kaizo Trap from timestamp 3:50-3:55)

Ziel rocketing through acceleration rings at Mach 5 while Mercy flails through the air at Mach 2 (video — Kerbal Scuffed Program 4: War)

Any scene from In This Economy — either a scene from chapter 2 (“How’s that for unalterable record?”) or chapter 5 (“My country, for better or worse.”)

One of the scenes I mentioned drawing in earlier posts and forgot about

Anyway, the main examples that come to mind here are Kaladin’s curmudgeonly attitude and mostly-inflexible code of honor (both inherited from Lirin, and the second partially also inherited from Hesina), Miles Morales thinking of his parents‘ and uncle’s words at critical moments in the Spiderverse movies (and also him and his dad walking down stairs instead of taking risky parkour jumps), and Yerin’s whole manner of speaking (inherited from the Sword Sage, a father figure).

Anyway, this reminds me of Orthos (in the Cradle series) and Shyrax (in the Last Horizon series), partly because they’re both curt and blunt like Dwight, but also because they contrast with what you’d expect from that kind of personality. Both of them (not Dwight) are often very encouraging to their allies, despite seeming like they’d be demanding.