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favorite thing about them: Lana is my rock. I mean...my characters’ rock. Heh. She’s so utterly soothing and strong. Not strong like Strong Female Character™ strong, but she has so much mental and emotional fortitude. I love her. 

least favorite thing about them: she’s so dang hard on herself! (this seems to be a theme)

favorite line: I love her little ambient quips if you click on her when you’re just standing around, especially “I never was much for idle chatter” (me neither, girl) and “Yes, I’m still here. Haven’t gone anywhere.” 

brOTP: her and the player character. Doesn’t even matter the class, all my characters love her.

OTP: I don’t have an OTP for her per se, but I do have a secret fondness for her and Koth together.

nOTP: can’t think of one.

random headcanon: she drinks tea and writes poetry...oh wait, that’s canon. Never mind.

unpopular opinion: that she’s the literal greatest. Is that an unpopular opinion? If so, I side-eye the fandom. 

song i associate with them: Black Blade

Leo and Lincoln! 

Other things I like beginning with L: lady characters, Legend of Korra, laying around doing nothing, Last of Us, The. :p 

Disclaimer: I unwisely had a glass of wine on an empty stomach so my answers may be a little bit tipsy. Since you didn’t specify a particular segment of SW I’ll limit my answers to the official present canon, i.e. the movies and the animated shows.

Favorite Female: I love them all but I have to go with Rey.

Favorite Male: That’s hard. Is it weird I’m tempted to say Darth Vader? I feel like the fall and redemption story of Anakin Skywalker was what first really reeled me in to Star Wars in the first place. But also, Cassian Andor, because reasons.

3 Other Favorite Characters: I can never choose just three. Jyn, Ahsoka, Bodhi, R2, Sabine, Yoda…better stop there.

3 OTPs: Jyn/Cassian, Kanan/Hera, Holdo/Poe

Funniest Character: Yoda probably

Prettiest Character: Easily Poe Dameron, I mean holy heck have you seen that man’s bone structure

Most Annoying Character: Could it really be anyone besides Jar Jar Binks

Most Badass Character: Pretty much all of them, but a special nod to Amilyn Holdo.

Character I’d Like as my BFF: Finn and/or Rose.

Female Character I’d Marry: I’d marry Padme just to keep her away from that train wreck she actually married in canon

Male Character I’d Marry: I would go for Obi-Wan (younger version, obviously). He’s nice to look at, and given the desert hermit thing, he’d clearly be fine with giving me all the introvert space and alone time I need.

I’m glad you asked, actually! That’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot since seeing TLJ, so thanks for giving me an excuse to get said thoughts down in written form. 

Wow, it's that bad?

Yeah. :/ I mean, for people who enjoy puzzles--or at least have endless free hours to spend running around jumping on random things and clicking random buttons until stuff happens--then it’s probably a great game. Unfortunately I’m not one of those people. BioWare games used to be known for their strong stories and characters, which is why I played them, but in this game that’s all taken a backseat to endless busywork and tedious crap you have to slog through in order to try to move the story forward. It sucks. :(

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“I want to fly up to Edmonton and personally punch in the face every...”

Montreal's fault, this time. And yeah.

I would cut out Meelo and Wu entirely, or at least pare their screentime waaaay down. It always blew my mind that in a show with a very limited number of 22-minute episodes, Bryke wasted so much time on those poor excuses for humor.

I would kill off Mako, because…I can. *twirls mustache*

I would axe the entire Varrick/Zhu Li “romance,” because (unpopular opinion alert) that entire relationship grosses me out in the extreme. Varrick spends three seasons treating Zhu Li like actual garbage to the point where it’s practically abusive, then makes the most half-assed confession of feelings ever, and she…….marries him? Ugh. For a show that, silly Book 1 love triangle notwithstanding, generally did an admirable job of giving its female characters depth and agency and letting them be actual people instead of plot devices for male characters, they dropped the ball with Zhu Li in a big way. 

Actually I would just have Zhu Li kick Varrick to the curb, then team up with Asami to become a truly awesome badass duo of genius lady engineers. 

I would give Lin more to do, because she’s easily one of the show’s best characters and was criminally underused in Book 4.

I would rework the ending of the show in a way that would lose Korra’s whole “I had to suffer in order to learn how to be a better person!” thing. I know gallons of ink have already been spilled on this subject, and I think I get what Bryke was trying to aim for–finding a way to work through pain, etc. Which is fine…but when your two white male showrunners put their bisexual mentally ill woman of color protagonist through immense physical and mental trauma so that she can “learn how to empathize” with other people, it’s a little uncomfortable to say the least.

It goes without saying that I would handle Kuvira significantly differently than Bryke did. 

I would spend more time fleshing out and developing her backstory and motivations rather than shoving them into a few lines of dialogue right at the end of the series finale. I would portray her actions and decisions, including and especially the problematic ones, in a more nuanced manner rather than “oh crap, we have to make this chick evil, let’s throw in PRISON CAMPS!!”

I would actually follow through on her relationship with Su. I would explore both their past and present in a meaningful way, rather than setting up a compelling conflict and then totally dropping it. I would have them sit down and talk through their issues like mature responsible adults! Or barring that, they could get their aggression out with a bending battle like Su and Lin did, then sit down and talk like responsible adults. I would actually give their relationship desperately-needed CLOSURE.

I would obviously do away with the whole prison camps thing, because that never made any sense for Kuvira’s character to begin with and essentially only existed to give Bolin some semblance of a character arc. 

I didn’t hate the colossus mech as much as everyone else apparently did, but I didn’t love it either. I would be fine with scrapping it, though I’m not sure what exactly I would do in its place. If I did keep it, I would obviously not keep the canon ending of “Kuvira’s Gambit.” I wrote a canon-divergent ficlet where instead of firing on the warehouse, Kuvira called Korra’s bluff, knowing she wasn’t really going to hurt Baatar, which would have put Korra on her heels and provided some interesting conflict, I think. 

I would have fleshed out Kuvira and Baatar’s relationship, and also fleshed out Baatar’s character in general, to give their separation at the end of the season more emotional weight. Bryke had all the tools in place to make Baatar an interesting character–the only non-bending grandchild of the great Toph Beifong! more family issues than you can shake a stick at!–but they totally whiffed on it. Missed opportunity. 

For that matter, I also would have expanded on Kuvira’s history with the rest of the Beifongs, including and especially Opal. I think there could have been some interesting stuff there if it hadn’t apparently been more important to dedicate large chunks of screentime to Wu’s singing and Meelo’s fart jokes. 

I think I would have kept the scene with Korra and Kuvira in the Spirit World, or something like it, because that was actually fairly well done. Though I probably would have made it longer and given it more depth. I also would have given Kuvira and her storyline more closure rather than just…shuffling her off to prison, apparently never to be heard from again?