Wanted To Give Them Some Proper Redesigns Because I Love Them

I had a hard time picking which versions of contrast and color to post ... But i trust my friend's opinion. I should not worry since its just a practice.

(this is what happening every time i look for refs......)

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HI THIS IS A LONG RANT ABOUT A VERY OBVIOUS REALIZATION I CAME TO EARLIER TONIGHT DISCLAIMER I AM NOT BY ANY MEANS A JAGERIST AND THIS MIGHT NOT MAKE ANY SENSE

maybe im reading into things too much or maybe this is just common knowledge and im just really slow to find out about it but i just realized that there is some sick and twisted manipulation going on between eren and floch. like. eren really saw the one person who lost everything so abruptly and violently and was like "im gonna convince him the only way to keep his current living friends and family alive is to join my mass murder supervillian genocide plan" and holy shit i just put two and two together

OF COURSE floch's a jagerist he has arguably been through more than (most) of the main cast!!!! and eren's cause promises that he'll never have to suffer that again!!!! its so fucking obvious to me now ohhghhh my godd

OF COURSE he's gonna side with a violent plan he has no lived experience of conflict being solved with diplomacy none of these characters really have but its about how violently his worldview was flipped on its head

i cant remember if he was garrison or mp but either way the fucking whiplash of relatively cozy interior life to literally his first mission HE COMES BACK THE SOLE SURVIVOR OF (that side of the shinganshina wall) YEAH THATD FUCK SOMEONE UP

he is a bonkers good representation of radicalization as a result of trauma and i will not shut up about him

tldr: eren knew what he was doing targeting floch (and floch's probably pretty fragile mental state) into joining his genocide club

I love this white man

this cures my depression

Floch and Hange meet in afterlife sometime after ch 139

I love LOK, but one of the things that bothers me is that it relies very heavily on a trope I dislike a lot, though in a way that usually makes the characters involved more interesting.

It’s basically: the villain has the right idea, but goes Too Far. 

Part of the reason that I dislike the trope is that in general, while there are vague gestures in the direction of acknowledging the villain’s point, the emphasis is overwhelmingly on the Too Far—and in fact, usually follows it up with even more (often baffling and counterproductive) villainy to move the focus to taking them down rather than addressing the fundamental problems driving them.  

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The more I think that new ATLA comic the angrier I get.

Aside from stupid retcons like Mai never really liking Azula and only befriending her because of her father despite how she acted in the series. Yk, Mai, who was actually happy to see Azula... She definitely faked it! No, no, you see, Mai, who as a kid willingly expressed her anger at Azula when she played that game with her and Zuko just really wanted to suck up to her. Yeah, expressing anger at a girl you are trying to suck up to - good retc... I mean writing! (especially since it was the only time we actually got to see little Mai and little Azula interact in the cartoon)

But Azula... oh God, where do I even start. Aside from obvious demonisation (at this point they could just replace Azula with literal demon and nothing would change, she is given 0 humanity) I just hate how the bloody comic tried to paint "Everyone will betray you" as something not only she already believed as a child but also as a common belief in Fire Nation????

I am sorry but what? Look, I get royals advising their children to be wary and all but aside from that.... this is so wrong on so many levels:

A) "Trust noone, even your friends will turn on you" is something that so deeply resonated with Azula because of who SHE was and because of HER life circumstances. She felt as if her mother, whose love she desperately wanted, loved Zuko far more and even disappeared from HER life forever just to protect her brother (an ultimate act of showing favoritism - at least according to Azula), her uncle also preffered Zuko over her, her brother, who she deeply loved, betrayed both her and her nation AFTER SHE ESSENTIALLY GAVE HIM THE THRONE and in the end one of her friends betrayed her for her brother (who her mother and uncle already "chose" over her) and the other betrayed her for said other friend. "Everyone betrays me" is Azula's theme, giving her this ideology before she goes through any of the events that show her (according to her) that she is unloveable, imperfect and unable to control others just undermines the whole point of her character, her perfectionism, using fear as a means of control and her eventual fall into madness.

B) This just sucks from worldbuilding perspective. Yes, royals advising their children to be wary of some other kids makes sense. But being wary of every single other kid all the time is nonsense. Assuming it were truly a FN value that war wouldn't be fought for 100 years. Yes, Fire Lord is the most important person who makes all the decisions but that level of mistrust among royals in court would be disasterous. Also, it just isn't in the spirit of militarism. Fire Nation is supposed to be highly militaristic nation - you know what is in complete opposition to that? The message of "Don't trust your comrades!"

And finally... an Agni Kai. Look mate, if an Agni Kai was fought every time a child insults other child's honour, it would be fought 10 times a day and not "3 times while I was a student". There was a reason it was such a big deal in the series and why Zuko fighting in one as a child was so cruel (also cos Ozai was his dad), if it is also used to settle down arguments between 8 year olds because one called another's father a traitor it would just be both stupid and highly impractical.

Also personal but I really wanted more Maiko....