Monday DE

[bjornwilde]

Is there anything about your character that bugs you? I’m thinking anything from costume design to their actions, and from mildly annoying to “Why must you be like this” to “I can’t even with you.”

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[varadia]

Well, Thrawn is always a dick. Even if he is not trying to be a dick, it happens. Effortlessly. *sigh*

X-23 will NEVER STOP TALKING TO PEOPLE. EVER. It's like she's never learned to end a conversation, but really it's that she absolutely loves talking to people, it makes her feel like she's good at being a person! *hands* See?

Ysa turns to melancholy at the drop of a hat. She is also very enthusiastic about learning new things. Sometimes that is exhausting. *solemn*

Sombra lies like a rug, and then I have to remember what she's lied about. *SIGH*

[iprotectyou]

Same, Ysalwen. Same.

[configuration_birdwatcher]

I don't like the color scheme of Bastion's canonical paint job. Brick red and oliveish green don't look good together. When I'm actually playing Overwatch, I use the pink recolor skin 75% of the time, and that means I can't usually use candid screenshots for icons.

Also their unintelligibility can be a pain to work with sometimes.

[bjornwilde]

Ahsoka: I really wish violence wasn't her first response to problems. I also question the tube top of seasons 01 & 02, but that's more on the writers.

Sabine: Ok, again more the writers, but I grumble any time she's doing covert sneaky stuff in brightly colored armor. Like would it hurt to at least pretend she puts some sort of temporary finish to dull the colors so they don't stand out in shadows? ETA: And in reading Hera & Kanan-muns answer below, something else occurred to me...Sabine voting to leave Ezra behind with the Empire in Spark of the Rebellion. I found a reason that kind of worked for me, but I don't see Sabine willfully leaving anyone in the Empire's care.

Danny: Oh boy. OK, I love my idealistic hero boy, but he has a huge dose of white male privilege, man child complex, and anger management issues which are touched on but never really made a problem for him to overcome. I'm hoping it will come up again in Luke Cage season 2, although I also don't like that a POC gets to do the educating of the white man.

I'm blanking on the other right now, so I'll have to do some work and let them stew.

[troublesome_alchemist]

*sigh*

"YOU HAVE THREATENED MY PEOPLE AND NOW YOU WILL BURN..."

Sweetie, honey, darling, IT IS RAINING, freaking use the gun you have strapped on under your coat. You don't wear it just to look good.

Well, maybe you do, idk.

[cottoncandypink]

Mark’s wig in the second episode of Resident Enis. I get why they went in that direction but it is the worst wit ever.

[deadeye_shot]

Hawkeye doesn't move much. This makes RPing her rather difficult.

[for_everyone]

Kanan can have a really hard time sharing anything about himself to people beyond his crew. Especially as he doesn't actively lie as much as he used to. He has his reasons for this, particularly as for a long time he had to shut out basically everything about his life and what had shaped him up until that point, but it can make it awkward when he's talking to others and he just... really can't get past the feeling that when a conversation turns to anything possibly personal, he has to jump back as quickly as possible. And that can sometimes be hard to work with.

(The way he was SUPER FLIRTATIOUS in A New Dawn was really grating, but I've more or less just written that up as a characterization issue. And the more we started writing the more I could get the idea of a "pre-kids" characterization for Kanan, but I still think that aspect was really overdone. Ironically, A New Dawn's characterization for Hera is fantastic, and my favorite of anything outside Rebels itself. It's definitely fundamental to my understanding of her character.)

Hera, once convinced of something, can become very inflexible and unwilling to be told otherwise on it. And this is also understandable, as the conditions of her existence essentially force her into a siege mentality - in some instances even giving an inch could be enough to destroy her - and because she's the one really in the highest role of responsibility. If she takes a risk and it goes wrong, others' lives are on the line. (And this in fact happens in canon, she takes risks and sometimes others die as a result.) So you can have a situation like in "The Call," where she can be kind of obstinate. Though idk, I guess I'd just call this more of a character flaw, it doesn't particularly bug me. (And I do feel happy to say Hera's outfit has never bugged me! It's cool and practical. I don't even mind the useless goggles she uses only one time! So that's a nice feeling.)

Most things that bug me are ultimately meta-writer issues, not in-character issues. Like - I think it's pretty clear that the final word in canon was that at least through the second season of Rebels, Kanan was the "leader" of the group, even though Hera made much more sense in that role. (And I'm not sure that ever really ended, as Thrawn identifies him as such in season 4, but idk.) I've seen some people treat it as canon that Kanan being the Ghost crew leader was a ruse, but ... it's very clearly not. That's an idea fandom created to make things make more sense. And we did that ourselves! It does make more sense! But it's definitely a deviation from canon. It's pretty clear the writers just saw a human-man-Jedi character as naturally the leader. So that's kind of annoying, but it's a writer thing.

(And another writer thing - Hera's characterization/arc in the final Rebels episodes, blah. And also the Aphra comics ohgod, pretty much going to have to ignore all of that. Which is a shame, because I'd actually like to see a real Hera vs Aphra match up. But it's pretty clear in that case the writers didn't care about Hera's character at all and just needed some rebel and put her in for the tie-in effect. Which, they got me, I guess I've learned my lesson :\ But you know, portraying Hera as naive, incompetent, cold and somehow also prissy bugs me a lot, yeah.)

[inlovewithwords]

... Aphra comics did what to Hera?!

[for_everyone]

Yeah, again, my impression is that they just already had this story in mind/written and then Hera was put into the part of a rebel leader so they could advertise her being in it. But she's just there to be perpetually duped and just so scandalized by Aphra and her behavior, and I am just. rolling my eyes back into my head. And granted, I do have issues with the Aphra comic when it leans too hard into the dark and cynical tone I feel like a lot of the comics take (or the villain-centered ones, anyway), so it also makes me feel like Hera just couldn't fit into that narrative, where all rebels must be Idealistic and Naive and just don't know what it's 'really like' or whatever. But tbh I thought the story underserved Aphra too, and it was just overall too bad, because again I think that could've been a really interesting character combination.

[inlovewithwords]

Eriond: That he comes from a terribly written canon.

Lois: Her occasional obliviousness.

Evelyn: In her current pre-canon state? Her unwillingness to commit to anything. I know and understand why--she's scared!--but it's frustrating and makes her hard to deal with, even though her growing out of that is really key to her whole plot arc.

Tavi: Mostly his canon more than him, although his willingness to kill definitely makes me somewhat uncomfortable at times, especially when and where it conflicts with my politics. Some of his manipulativeness is hard to take for me, especially when I start thinking in terms of those tactics in my real life. Also, when he fails at understanding how to Relationship With Other People. Sometimes his precog/tendency to Know Things (this includes when he has in RP threads occasionally intuited things I as a player did not know and then it turns out correct) sometimes makes me want to throttle him. He can be an arrogant ass as a result. He does also have a tendency to think he knows best which drives me a bit bonkers, but it's usually with respect to The Future of Alera and he makes a conscious effort to remember he doesn't know best for people's personal lives (ever, he's terrible at personal) or other people's worlds.

R2: Trying to write him. Do you know how hard it is to write binary?!?!?!

Anakin:
- The casting of Hayden Christensen
- The terrible writing of the prequels making Anakin a way less interesting character than he is either in Clone Wars or before them
- Christensen's acting
- Anakin's complete lack of good judgment
- Christensen's face, because at this point I have a grudge
- Why oh why oh why does Anakin seriously never so much as phone his mother?! It isn't like they don't have the technology. I know, I know, Jedi, but he was plenty old enough to have developed different ideas!
- George Lucas
- His obsessiveness is so creepy some days I just cannot cope. Seriously, it's not sane or healthy.
- The issue of redemption and Anakin, partly rooted in fandom's approach to it. love the idea of Anakin redemption fics but it's really hard to approach and has to be done right, and almost any that take place after Episode II fail to account for the fact that it was pre-massive meddling from Palpatine that Anakin went out and slaughtered a village. He's a mass murderer when he has psychotic breaks, and frankly very few fics really address this.
- What the hell is with his mental health other than that it barely exists at all. That's really hard to deal with, both in wanting to go I Can't Even but also wanting to treat it with sensitivity, because that was a very damaged and hurting child who did not get the help and support he needed to not turn into a psychotic mass murderer. It bugs me because there are ways it could have been written better, and the way it's written is really hard to balance kindness and honesty that he's a monster.
- His utter arrogance drives me up the wall. Sadly, his universe pretty much supports it because he is in fact a raging Gary Stu.
- Some days his religious dogma is really hard for me to get my head around, especially as it is so radically different from my own non-religious/Jewish background and the Christian culture I'm constantly surrounded by.
- He's so goddamn stupid some days.
- He's absolutely convinced he knows what's best for everyone--rather like Tavi in that respect, except nothing's going to convince him short of dying (literally) that he can be wrong.
- ... that I've gone on this long and yet I still love him.

[configuration_birdwatcher]

Boy do I ever know how hard it is to write beepy robot languages. You either have to figure out how to describe the noise you want in the narration (and I feel like I can only get away with directly describing it as conveying an emotion so many times), or type out probably-goofy-looking onomatopoeia that other people might not read as the same sound you had in mind.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

The disparity between how much affection Yamato feels and how much he expresses is a recurring point of vexation. The last chapter of Tri has a brilliant example of this, as when he thinks Taichi is dead, he refers to him in private as someone too important to be replaced, and implies that his life's purpose is to protect him.

When he actually finds out that Taichi is alive, though, his response is to glare, toss him his goggles, and tell him he's late. Please be less horrifically emotionally stunted, Yamato.

[death_gone_mad]

Well, I have to come up with excuses why Amascut doesn't just steal world-ending tech from Milliways or walk off into other worlds and start causing chaos there.

Also, she's so damn cynical about meeting new people. Sure she will be nice (mostly) with people who come to her to talk, but unless she is working on advancing some plot or scheme she won't actually go out and seek company. So, I can never tag out with her, it's alway an isolated entrance post with her. And lately it's mostly outdoors because ughhh people. Or cats.

I am not saying that I am gregarious myself, though. :D