#youcannotbesirius

Part of the maturity thing is also the basics of her character, too: of her brother dies in anything other than an inheritance battle the monarchy almost immediately falls to her. Wakanda is a functional monarchy, with a set-up system to keep lazy monarchs out of power, so Shuri needs to be on her toes the whole time. She needs to be prepared for assassination attempts, her whole family dying, etc.  That kind of responsibility from an early age matures people (although everyone’s correct about the ‘woobifying the white boy’ part as well, see: the odinson children)

I don’t have an issue with Peter being a fun loving teenager. I think that we’re using mature differently here.

I’m talking about how we treat adults that threaten Peter as Peter being this 15 year old kid getting assaulted by these adults that should know better, when in the context that is presented they don’t actually know that he’s kid. [ The final fight with Vulture being an exception obviously. ] And how the conversation becomes “oh, Peter is a child and Steve & the rest of #TeamCap should have known better” during Civil War, and they’re all cancelled for attacking a child.

vs.

Shuri who is also presented as a minor during the movie that introduces her, Black Panther, btu we don’t go to N’Jadaka and say “I can understand where his motives lie, but he’s a terrible person for trying to kill Shuri.” The movie makes it very clear that he almost kills her during the final fight in Wakanada, the Border tribe encircle her [ along with Nakia and Okoye and Florence Kasumba ]. And while yes you could argue that similar things have happened to royal families of Europe for centuries, that doesn’t change the fact that Shuri is still a kid that had to go through that and the discourse around her character is usually about her inventing tech to benefit Tony Stark & Co or to relegate her simply to supporting friends at whatever Peter’s school is. 

Assuming of course that they remember that she exists outside of the badass princess trope. 

Her being the assumed heir to the throne, which is an assumption. Wakanda does have a functional monarchy, but it’s not like it does fall to her. T’Chaka died at the UN and T’Challa didn’t become the real King of Wakanda until after he defeated M’Baku is ritual combat, the same for N’Jadaka, and T’Challa wasn’t welcome on the throne again until their third act battle. So her becoming Queen is entirely reliant on the fact that no one else in Wakanda would dare to challenge her. I don’t think anyone would, but it’s certainly possible. 

Ohh!! Pictures for that were showing up when I was looking for Olms, they do look very similar! That’s very interesting, thanks for telling me about them, did not know they were a thing either. Being an at-risk species is very unfortunate, reading some stuff about it and it sounds like a really interesting creature!

Behold, the boy!

Character Development Questions: Hard Mode

Oooooohhh, thaank youuuuuu

33. In The Face Of Criticism, Is Your Character Defensive, Self-Deprecating Or Willing To Improve?