#tdlr

So you wish to hear about the past aye?

Jokes aside

It was pretty….uh bad? Like being a chans fan was the equivalent of being in an empty room

NO ONE WOULD DRAWL THEM 😭 SO I WAS JUST LIKE 🧍🏻‍♀️(and while there was some art, not a lot of them were popular to be noticed)

Rhea is EvIl and if you don't understand this after playing the two games, then you must drink a tea pot of Hresvelg Grey, and replay them asap.

it was still hilarious back in the days to see some devoted people being pissed that the games don't show enough proofs/materials cementing Supreme Leader's claims and their own delured "uwu feudalism uwu crusades uwu i have a degree i received in a cereal box about european middle ages" headcanons -

Day 7 - Japan Blog - 13 February 2024 DisneySea

Today, my partner and I, Ben are going separate ways.

He wants to go and find music stuffs; so I found him a whole street where they have guitars, bass, ukulele, record stores... its literally called "Guitar Street" or Ochanomizu and its near Ueno (sort of). I, on the otherhand... will never be satiated with Disney. So Im doing another day at Disney but Im going to DisneySea. The second day at Disney is always more organised and streamlined -- I didnt really eat much but I did make sure to do the things I wanted to do.

okay i’ve been thinking about this for a while; and endgame solidified this for me

but 

the one thing that i will never forgive them for, is not giving me well rounded characters

strap in because this is going to be a long one

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apart from tony stark and characters directly involved with tony stark, no other character in the mcu serves any purpose but to beta to their protagonist

now 

i acknowledge that this is largely due to I influence in the mcu

but i will never forgive the writers and directors of this film for creating such 2 dimensional characters

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contrast and compare the ironfamily to, lets call it the capfamily:

ironfamily:

tony stark is arguably the most well rounded and developed character in the mcu, but this textpost isn’t about him

its about the other members of the iron-family

James Rhodes: James Rhodes is a fullbird Colonel of the US Army, who in addition to being Tony’s bestfriend- has relationships and a life of his own. Hell in the two most recent films Rhodey and Tony barely have any screen time together!! Rhodey is an established character who has his own friendships, opinions and thought process; and being Tony Stark’s bestfriend is just one part of who he is

Pepper Potts: she is the CEO of Stark Industries, is seen regularly pursuing her own agenda, and all out destroys the “damsel in distress” notion in im3. While her relationship with Tony is a huge part of her character, she has never served the purpose of arm candy/ female romantic interest. Not once. 

Happy Hogan: Happy is given his own character arc in Spiderman Homecoming, which we expect to see expanded in Far From Home. Apart from nominal scenes, Happy can largely been seen as a character separate from Tony completely

Peter Parker: honestly, the guy has his own film franchise i feel like this is self explanatory

Nebula: a recent but firm addition to the ironfamily, Nebula is very obviously her own character but i would argue that her relationship w Tony is the reason she so readily trusts the other avengers in endgame; showing his impact on her while keeping her a separate character

now lets do the same for the capfamily

capfamily:

i have a seperate textpost here about how much the mcu let down steve’s character, but this isn’t about that

Bucky Barnes: Bucky is the Rhodey to Steve’s Tony. They’re bestfriends, from the playground to the battlefield. They fought together side by side. Its all amazing and beautiful, and it is all also the only character trait that bucky seems to possess. It is almost like Bucky exists exclusively to be Steve’s bestfriend. Which okay, i can understand that in CA:TFA, and to an extent, in CA:TWS. But honestly, for a guy who undergoes 70 years of brainwashing from HYDRA- i’d like more personality than “im steve rogers bestfriend and i can prove it because he used to stuff newspapers in his shoe”. I literally know nothing about Bucky apart from details of his life that directly involve Steve. And that makes me so sad

Sam Wilson: as much as i love Sam, he seems to serve the exact same purpose that Bucky does. He exists to be Steve’s friend- his yes man. I’ll agree, he’s got more personality than Bucky does; but apart from a brief introduction into his life as a therapist, we don’t really see much of Sam outside of Steve

also, note that Sam, Steve and Bucky always share the screen together; and scenes do not exist where these characters aren’t with each other in some shape or form

its almost as if Sam and Bucky’s characters aren’t relevant if Steve isn’t also on screen with them

Natasha Romanoff: this is arguably the only character who has a tangible personality outside of Steve; which I would pin largely on her connection to Clint. But still, I would argue that her character has largely been reduced to “captain america’s friend” and it struck me as so odd that she sent rhodey chasing after clint instead of going after him herself, almost as if she was being held back by a star spangled man 

Peggy Carter: now this has got to be the worst in my opinion. the mcu turned peggy carter from this amazing woman with her own agency, into Steve’s love interest. Not that Peggy Carter didn’t deserve love, but they pushed the idea that her only purpose was to be the woman he loved and mourned so much; that they completely disregarded the full and long life that she led so that Steve could have an OOC life in endgame

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the ironfamily and the capfamily are extremely similar

There’s a protagonist, with 2 guy friends, a chick that he loves, and a scary assassin who likes him for some reason

but characters associated w cap seem to exist only to further the steve rogers narrative; which makes me so salty because all of them are separate people of their own right who deserved to be fleshed out the way characters in ironfamily were