In a galaxy that is quite xenophobic and isolationist humanity is the odd one out. We generally like aliens and want to get along. When they turned us down, we redoubled our efforts. Now our fleet is orbiting the alien’s home world. We may no longer come in peace, but they will be our friends.
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"My body move on its own"
they keep adopting strays it’s become a problem
once the pro hero deku starts gaining in popularity, it becomes common knowledge that he likes to cosplay whenever he attends conventions
before long, his fans start actively searching for him on the con floor, and he decides to make a game of it.
he keeps custom sticker sheets on himself, and whenever a fan discovers him, he gives them a sticker as a prize, and stands there chatting with them for a while
pretty quickly, this little game spirals into something much bigger. fans start collecting the stickers for bragging rights.
sometimes, only a handful of people manage to find izuku, and the sticker for that con becomes super valuable
it’s highly looked down upon for people to reveal izuku’s costume and/or spread his location because not only does it ruin the game for everyone, it disrupts izuku’s free time too when fans are coming up to him every two seconds
there are some people that still do it, but they recieve so much backlash that it doesn’t happen very often
at the end of the con, izuku usually posts a pic of his cosplay on his social media, along with some fans who had managed to win the game
there was one particularly memorable year when only two people managed to recognize him during the entire con.
why? because the cosplay he was wearing was a super shitty version of his own hero costume. complete with duct tape and a pair of bunny ears
i've come to realize there are only two kinds of tragedies: preventable and inevitable. preventable tragedies are the kind where everything could have maybe worked out if only. if only romeo had gotten the second letter. if only juliet had woken up earlier. if only creon had changed his mind about antigone sooner. if only orpheus hadn't turned around.
inevitable tragedies are the kind where everything was always going to end terribly. of course macbeth gets deposed, he murdered his way to the throne. of course oedipus goes mad, he married his own mother. of course achilles dies in the war, he had to fulfill the prophecy in order to avenge his lover.
both kinds have their merits. the first is more emotionally impactful, letting the audience cling to hope until the very end, when it's snatched away all at once leaving nothing but a void. the second is more thematically resonant, tracking an inherent fatal flaw in its hero to a natural and understandable conclusion, making it abundantly clear why everything has to happen the way it does.
I think you lot are severely underestimating the power of "God I love him but he's so stupid sometimes" when it comes to jaymelvik. Vik and Mel love Jayce for his brilliance and stupidity. You cannot tell me that Mel didn't care about Viktor either. Because also. That's part of Mel's character. She may use people, but she always cares about them. She might use you but she won't let you sink.
And she did fall in love with Jayce. I don't think she was expecting to. But the ways in which she did likely scared her for a moment before accepting. She couldn't accept Jayce without Viktor either because of how close they are as friends. Literal package deal. It's also obviously those two would lead to romance because. Look at them, c'mon now. And she already accepted that. Honestly think if all that didn't happen, she would have started inviting Viktor to go places with them. He'd be included in dinners. And it would have started as business meetings but quickly turned to just hanging out. Mel and Viktor would have loved each other too. Because all three of them scheme. None of them would have wanted any others to be kept at arms length from the other for similar and different reasons. They wouldn't have picked one over the other, they'd just pick all three of themselves. It would be difficult at times, cause all couples butt heads. But again, none would want any others to feel like they'd be less important, because all of them have had to deal with that. For these three it's literally just natural. It doesn't work for other characters...because they are other characters..? Idk I just think it's obvious they'd all tie into each other well. Bothers me that Mel gets painted as only manipulative black woman who never really loved Jayce, has no cares for anyone but herself, while jayvik is like some holy sacred thing with no issues.
what a beautiful ending
Virgil: I relate to vampires because I, too, need to be explicitly invited in before I have the audacity to participate in anything.