Sexy?

but with each other, they're evenly matched. more than that, they know each other, on a deeper level than they know any of their other possible opponents. they watched each other grow. they're intimately familiar with each other's fighting styles, because they all watched those fighting styles develop alongside each other. there's a sense of familiarity, equity, and balance. the sort of balance that makes for a very fascinating combat scene.

i still stand by the fact that in fiction, combat becomes its own language. and that first fight scene between all three of them told me so much about who they are as people, and how they've influenced each other's lives.

now, laudna gets a second chance at a happy ending, and it’s all because a little blue tiefling said ‘i want a hug’ to a war criminal and turned him into her friend.

i will never get over jester's impact as a character. she loves essek into redemption. she loves artagan into being a god. she loves the mighty nein into becoming a family.

it's the Being Saved by the Love of Your Friends show, and she's the star.

i know its been a while since it came out but im preeetty sure this is exactly how CATWS ended

i just had this idea about data and his emotions and i just had to talk about it.

so my personal theory/headcanon about how emotions work for data is that he does have them - they're just very low-volume, for lack of a better expression.

now i know the entire tng fandom has been knew about that for a long time, but i would like to add something to it.

i saw a comment on another post that said that they believed emotion was an essential part of sentience and that got me thinking:

clearly dr. soong can incorporate emotion directly into his androids' systems like he did with lore, but he was afraid that if he did that with data, he would end up like his brother. however, i believe that some emotion is required to create a sentient android - so soong essentially had to figure out the lowest "volume" of emotion to program into data to make him sentient, but hopefully prevent what happened with lore.

so basically my theory/headcanon is that data definitely does feel, but it's just on such a low frequency that he can easily dismiss it as part of his programming. sometimes, he experiences a strong enough emotion that we get to see it sort of surface in barely formed facial expressions and the actions he takes to help those he loves (because yes, data, you do love, you just show it more than you actually feel it).

i don't think he's lying/in denial about his emotions - not really. he can't really feel his emotions very strongly and sometimes he doesn't feel them at all. but, they are there - and when they're strong enough they do surface - but, due to their relatively low volume, it's easy for him to dismiss them.

captain america: the winter soldier is about how fascists can be anywhere, and we have to stop them, even if it means going against what feels like the whole world.

captain america: civil war is about how even when there are fewer fascists, regular people can still be wrong and the government can't be trusted to keep the best interest of minorities in mind.