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In this game - you gotta play Nice

i'm really so curious how deeply tbhx is gonna go with its whole premise of "heroes are made and gain powers based on trust" because i really wasn't anticipating that

1) moon/xiao yueqing has teleportation-based powers but because everyone wants her and nice to stick together, her teleportation leads back to nice which was INSANE to me

and

2) lin ling is becoming increasingly more worried about being clean and perfect which is a side effect of nice's image of perfection which is indicating that this whole trust system can have mental effects??? and that's horrifying to me???

we are 2 episodes in, how deep is this gonna go

that episode 2 adds the implication that nice committed suicide out of treeman forcing him into a straight showmance, on top of all the other pressures, adds an undeniably tragic twist. to dig a little deeper, though, I can’t help but think of a few things:

1) that we have heard absolutely nothing from nice’s family (or wreck’s, for that matter).

2) that nice & wreck wanted to be heroes together — and the company forced them into this position.

from these, i do draw the conclusion that Nice wasn’t closeted in his personal life. The lack of a family contacting Nice after weeks of silence; there’s a distance, if they’re alive, that I think many gay people can relate to.

I draw the follow up implication, then, that Nice wasn’t just forced to remain closeted; he was forced back in.

the love he had hoped to maintain even through it was being devalued by the company as they began working to push Nice into the top ten. He had a “true love” show scheduled with a woman who loathed him — and had just seen a promo (sent by Lin Ling) indicating that the company planned for him to begin pushing for the top spot. In short, the closet doors were not just closed, but locking shut, with no room for Nice behind them and no path of escape.

If Treeman wanted take Nice’s life from him, then he would take Nice from them.

Yeah I feel that a bit, definitely fast, no doubt about it. But it's just barely not jumping off into the deep end of crazy pacing though imo. I do hope the current pacing is just due to needing to establish some stuff before we get to the real meat of the story.

Also the chaotic pace of it all and it being confusing is probably how Lin feels about everything too. So maybe they're intentionally going for that rather than them wanting to rush to other stuff.

minor flaw with tbhx

to be hero x has stunning animation, captivating sound design, interesting characters, and fantastic fight choreography, but i feel the pacing is so fast that it can be a bit chaotic

it's hard not to get emotional whiplash at times. better pacing would really allow the emotional highs and lows of tbhx to hit with the intensity these moments deserve. i wish the writers would allow moments to breathe more or perhaps work on writing scene transitions with a bit more flow.

im definitely planning on investing my time into this show and im going to continue watching, but the pacing issues are sometimes hard to ignore. Part of me thinks these two episodes have been so quick just because the writers really want to speed to telling a later part of the story sooner. if so, i look forward to seeing the potential of this show's writing once it gets it's footing then.

I need to see more flashback scenes with these two SO. BAD. genuinely any interaction with og nice and wreck pls pls pls

i knew haolin would come in clutch

ok last post (for now...) but like, Nice canonically having OCD? I have so many feelings about it.

So far, it's been portrayed as the stereotypical "needs things neat and organized" thing which fits his powers but isn't necessarily OCD. Some people do that but it's a stereotype that is often considered harmful because it makes the disorder seem more benign than it is.

OCD is, at its core, an anxiety disorder. Compulsions (repetitive actions such as washing hands over and over, checking locks multiple times, etc.) are typically a means of staving off anxiety of "something bad" happening. That fear of "something bad" (i.e. obsessions) can be anything from internal to external, such as fears you might be a bad person or fears your house will burn down or that you'll be contaminated and fall ill. Compulsions try to treat that. It's not necessarily logical and people with OCD often know that their compulsions aren't reasonable but it's not something they want to do, they feel like they have to do it no matter what or there will be consequences.

Now, if they really are going to give Nice accurate OCD, then I imagine it's not just about his powers--it could be a pre-existing condition simply worsened by it. After all, both Wreck and Moon's feelings towards Nice don't change just b/c of what people believe their relationship to him is, even if their powers change (Moon teleporting to him, Wreck destroying the buildings Nice's affiliated corporation sells).

So I really hope they portray Nice having some form of moral OCD honestly. He probably wanted to be a hero genuinely at first but then began to realize that the world is very complex, and if he makes one mistake? If he doesn't give himself to the hero cause at all times? If he has to see his friend possibly harming civilians just to make some business richer? He's constantly watching himself, making sure he doesn't just look perfect, but is perfect morally. But his very existence as a corporate hero is antithetical to that.

And it's not just the guilt after the fact of making a mistake, it is a constant fear even when there's proof to the contrary. I've been thinking recently about how "perfection" is such a terrible state--you must strive to constantly maintain it. You don't "make up" for a mistake, you can only constantly check yourself to make sure you never do it again. If you slip up once? That's all the effort to "get better" down the drain.

I just...feel so bad for Nice now...

Lin still really needs to be set free from the actual mess he is in, my man did NOT sign up for any of this. I mean like literally he did but that's besides the point. How was dude supposed to know about Nice's boyfriend bestfriend?

what do u mean the nemesis immediately knew his rival had been replaced and is intensely jealous to nice's girlfriend and apparently was set off by nice not replying to his messages and then has a complete breakdown when he learns what happened to the original....

Internet vernacular has completely altered what some words and expressions mean to me. Forevermore, I will hear the words "hear me out" will only and exclusively as "before you cast your judgements prematurely, please pause and allow me to explain how and why I should be allowed to fuck this thing".

✨Ahu✨

just watched the first ep of to be hero x new blorbo is going THRU it

i like nice a normal amount

Heavy in your arms

just your regular sibling fight

Missed drawing my favorite space cowboy.

The worms got me

hello again tumblr forgot you exist and ANYWAY by worms I mean I rewatched Trigun 98 but with my boyfriend this time and IT IS ALL I CAN THINK ABOUT SOMEONE HELP ME. I don't know if he can handle my obsession rn.

He's also infuriated by Vash, which like yeah fair. He's just a silly guy tho.

Witch Ocheria! — Something I made for Halloween.

yesterday!

So is anyone else's mood at the whims of your hunger?

Like I fr just had the worst time ever, crying to my partner(bless his heart), then my mom gave me cheese, and the world was filled with sunshine and rainbows. And by sunshine and rainbows, I mean committing crimes in dnd but eh, potato, tomato.

today in "google AI is fucking useless because it hallucinates things that never happened", i bought a couple CVS thermometers that have both been acting up, tried to search if there had been a problem with the whole product line:

there is no record of this product recall. it did not happen. the date "feb 8 2024" is the date someone listed a thermometer for sale on ebay.

Character that uses gun(s) as their primary weapon(s): Neat

Character that uses gun(s) as their primary weapon(s) and they wear glasses: Eehoohehoohehahehoohahuhee

Tumblr I believe in the people.

I have a new favourite NPC

I personally love it when people do this, assuming it is done right. As an Ace and Gender fluid person I often feel othered, and making a character like idk an alien or something helps me relate more. Because that is a literal way to other the character. Good example of nb alien imo, Double Trouble, there is plenty of other representation in She-Ra so it's pretty clear it was done with no bad intention. Of course, if it is done in a way that equates a lack of conformity to being inhumane then that's another issue. It means the writer doesn't know what they're talking about and should shut up.

Basically, if represented in a positive light, muah, love it, thank you, you get it. If it is negative, boooooooo, get better at writing, you suuuuuccckk.

Aspec (Aromantic, Asexual, Agender, ETC) and Nonbinary people

(agendered aliens, asexual robots)

Reblogs appreciated for this one.

my pitch for why Wanderer and Furina should be friends (and that they should meet through an interlude quest like Itto and Xiao)

"viewed as flawed for being too human" vs "viewed as perfect due to being human". (aka false god trauma yknow.)

they both wear blue (blue besties!!!)

half of their dialogue would be trying to say they're better than the other, but neither of them actually believe that

furina loves sweets. wanderer hates sweets. battle to the death.

in one of her character lines, furina says she loves to surf, so furina teaching the wanderer how to surf would be the funniest fucking thing ever and i will not take any arguments on this

BOTH OF THEM HAVE WHOLE THINGS INVOLVING CRYING??? FURINA'S PROPHECY VS WANDERER CRYING WHEN RAIDEN TRIED PUTTING THE GNOSIS IN HIM??? (this ones in all caps cause i realized it while making this post)

the only two characters to have received a vision on screen should get to be besties methinks

furina having to learn how to act inhuman vs the wanderer having to learn how to act human

"why did you give your hydro pets such complicated names" "I- you- well- uh- YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE A NAME" "HEY-"

i just think it'd be both funny and angsty and bro thats the perfect combination when it comes to media. they are THE gap between a tragedy and comedy

Honkai should have a character that's an artifical intelligence modeled after a goose. A honk AI if you will

who gave her that. what the hell

october 11 - 2023