Speaking of homestuck who remembers the ‘100% canon’ jake cosplayer douche
im sorry, you must not know who i am. im joey. the cosplay elitest. and i dont have time for talk of cosplay that isnt canon. i cosplay hard. i cosplay with passion. and i cosplay correctly. this is a passion. this is a talent. and this is somthing i do not have shit-heads suggest for me to “hey dude do this” casually with no reasoning behind it.
Wasn’t he really ugly too?
I mean, I don’t think he was, but that has absolutely no bearing on the fact that he was a complete shithead who actively trashed other people’s cosplays and contributions to the fandom
Right, so now that I have
revealed myself to be actual Ladybug trash, time to make this one post that’s
been on my mind for a while. If you don’t follow me for Miraculous Ladybug
stuff (a.k.a. all my followers) then sorry about this.
So, a big fad throughout the fandom at the moment is giving
Miraculouses to the supporting cast, and I am SO BEHIND THIS. It would develop
the show beyond the status quo and freshen it up spectacularly across seasons,
because if it keeps being a magical girl monster-of-the-week show with wacky
antics ad nauseum then I’m going to probably lose interest fairly quickly. Some
of the most popular miraculous assignments are Alya receiving the fox
miraculous, Nino receiving the turtle miraculous ( @thelastpilot ) and
alternatively Lila receiving the real, actual fox miraculous. I’m going to
throw my two cents in on what thematically would work with the rest of the
show.
First of all, we know three miraculous holders for definite and
one for almost definite. Marinette is Ladybug, Adrien is Cat Noir, Master Fu is
the unnamed turtle hero and the likelihood is Gabriel is Hawkmoth/Papillon. The
thing is, if you look at miraculous holders and their miraculouses, a pattern
of character starts emerging.
Let’s start with Marinette.
Marinette is, in short, a clumsy klutz with terrible luck,
who normally you wouldn’t trust with giving an ounce of responsibility to – not
because she wouldn’t take it seriously, but because she seems totally
incompetent. The ladybug miraculous, on the other hand, is the miraculous of luck
itself, with the most responsibility of all the miraculouses – and indeed, when
Marinette transforms into Ladybug, almost all her clumsiness goes straight out
the nearest window and she gains HUGE amounts of responsibility – she’s the one
responsible for cleaning up the mess after an Akuma attack. The miraculous is
not given to Marinette because she’s the best person for the job – far from it,
she acknowledges in the origins episode Alya would be a far better fit.
However, what’s important is that she has the capacity to grow into the role of
Ladybug – and she well and truly does.
Now, let’s look at Adrien.
Adrien is a rich kid who’s incredibly lucky – he’s had
everything fall into his lap from a young age, and has had competence (fencing,
multilingualism etc.) drilled into him, at the cost of not being able to loosen
up and socialise. His miraculous transforms him into Cat Noir, the poster boy
for destruction and bad luck, with a kwami, Plagg, who’s constantly getting
himself into the kind of destructive shenanigans you’d expect from Marinette
through his own hedonism. See the pattern? Adrien and Marinette both receive the
miraculouses that don’t represent them – they represent everything they aren’t – but everything they could be if
they developed.
Now let’s look at Master Fu and Gabriel, because they’re a
little different, but equally as important.
Master Fu, on the surface, seems like an ideal fit for the turtle
in terms of alignment. The turtle in symbolism represents age, wisdom,
protection. Master Fu stands for all these things – but Master Fu is a miraculous holder beyond his prime. He is
at the end of his development. I have a feeling if we ever saw young Fu, we’d
see him as a figure of youthful energy,
who just wants to let loose and have fun, possibly even be anti-authoritarian
when it comes to adults. This should sound true of another character in the
show, and I’ll get back to that.
Gabriel, if everything is hinting at what we think it’s
hinting at, however, does not fit the butterfly miraculous at all. The
butterfly represents stages of life, and change, moving on, transformation. It’s
heavily hinted Gabriel’s wife is dead – at the very least, Hawkmoth/Papillon
has Adrien’s mother’s picture in his locket. Hawkmoth/Papillon’s goal now seems
to be to attain the miraculouses so he can resurrect his dead wife. He’s not accepting death, and he’s not
accepting the creed of his miraculous – he’s rejecting it, twisting it,
corrupting it, thus becoming the supervillain who uses his Kwami’s powers
against their will.
When a miraculous is
granted to an owner, they can choose to learn from it, or reject it. But
most importantly, they are granted to
people who lack the qualities their miraculouses represent – their character
flaws are what the miraculous works to iron out. That being said, let’s
look at Lila.
Lila is a compulsive liar. Her Akumatised form is presumably
the actual hero that emerges from the fox miraculous – a hero of lies and
illusions. This is unhealthy for her –
the miraculous isn’t helping her overcome her weaknesses, it’s only
accentuating her character flaws. Lila will never grow as a person if she truly
becomes Volpina.
So who actually needs secrets, lies and illusions in their
life? Well, it’d be someone for whom truth is all-consumingly destructive.
Someone whose self-destructive pursuit of the truth puts not only herself, but
other people in the line of fire, and whose
Akumatised form represents truth at all costs. I’m talking, of course,
about Alya.
This is why fox!Alya appeals to me so much – because Alya
would be able to learn and grow from the fox miraculous, because it represents
traits that she needs to attain. Now, let’s look at the other popular
miraculous assignment – turtle!Nino. That thing I mentioned earlier? Here it
comes again.
Nino is the epitome of youthful vigour in the show –
everything from his style to his DJing to his horribly outdated slang in the
English dub (seriously, who the hell is a Totally Radical Dude in the 21st
Century!? No-one. No-one is who.) His Akumatised form is Bubbler, a childish clown who tries to exile all
adults.If there’s one person in the
show who NEEDS the turtle miraculous and its traits of wisdom, age and protection, it’s Nino. This miraculous was MADE
for Nino – right down to the outdated slang, providing an added meta bonus to
the English dub that Nino becomes a massive allusion to the Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles.
This is why I love
fox!Alya and turtle!Nino – because they work thematically with who has already received
miraculouses. This begs the question – what happens to Lila?
I’d like to suggest something I think no-one else has
thought of. I present, a digression:
Peacock!Lila.
Peacocks are about vision, kind-heartedness and integrity –
the peacock miraculous represents everything the fox miraculous doesn’t. If
Lila became the peacock miraculous hero, she’d learn and develop SO MUCH MORE
than if she became Volpina. She’d truly have the redemption and character arc
that she needs – she’d learn there are more ways to solve a problem than lies,
and that truth can be just as valuable. Likewise,
this is why Peacock!Alya would actually be unhealthy for her – because it would
only drive her even deeper into her already destructive drive for truth and
justice.
This is what I call the Miraculous Character Development
Theory. I dunno, it was just a thing that occurred to me.
tl;dr: fox!Alya and turtle!Nino work thematically and so
does the rather outlandish peacock!Lila. Sorry this has been a mile long post about a god damn kids’ show. I have… several problems.
I have many reasons behind supporting turtle nino, the reasoning presented here is a big part of it. I think he would grow alot and in my fic ive made a show of watching him grow into someone who could wield the turtle miraculous even though he probably always could have
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how is this shitty parenting if i tell you to be home at a certain time you better be there. Shit my mom would have been out looking for me.
Right? How is this shitty at all?? If i tell you to be home at a certain time you better be there or else you aren’t allowed in the home. I care about my kids safety so much I’ll endanger them when they dont listen to me.
i do not have the energy to explain why this is a shitty thing to do but yeah it’s shit
I do! If you’re gonna be a vindictive little shit to your kids,you shouldn’t be having them. Having abusive parents like the ones up here fucked up my perception of love and affection.
I got locked out of the house all the time just like this poor kid. Do you know how fucking cold it gets at night? NO because you’re cushy and comfortable behind those decorated glass doors! I slept in 30
°F weather. I was on the swim team so I had to wake up and run with the team at 5 am then go to class. I’d wake up with frozen hair and bugs crawling on me. I’d start crying and it would rain fucking cold water. I had no friends in the neighborhood to go to. I’m still somewhat scared of the dark.
There’s wild animals and predatory strangers and shit out there. You’re gonna put your fucking CHILD in that situation and FAIL to be their guardian at one of the most important times of day just because they made it home late? Kids make fucking mistakes, and if you aren’t prepared for that, you shouldn’t even have pets. You’re not a caretaker, you’re a lazy abusive perfectionist snot. I’d kick your ass if you were my neighbor and I saw you pulling this shit! No joke!
My roommate talks all the time about how if her kids mess around she’d smack them around, but she and a LOT of other people do not understand that punishments like those are abuse. They fuck your kid up for life.
If you leave a kid out in the cold they’re more likely to get into more trouble/danger to keep warm anyway. Who’s gonna take your kid into their home? Do you even give a shit what happens to them? No because you wanted to play god and get back at someone who is still developing. Be a fucking adult.
Your kid is not a robot. It’s so shitty these parents have done this kind of stuff before and have NOT given the kid a blanket.
Neglect is the chronic inattention or omission on the part of the care giver to provide for the basic emotional and/or physical needs of the child, including food, clothing, nutrition, adequate supervision, health, hygiene, safety, medical and psychological care and education. Emotionally neglected children do not receive the necessary psychological nurturance to foster their own growth and development. The consequences of neglect can be very serious, particularly for young children. The child who does not receive adequate emotional, cognitive and physical stimulation, physical care and nutrition may experience lags in development. These lags in development may be irreversible.
SOME FORMS OF ABUSE & NEGLECT:
*Rejection, ignorance and isolation
*A lack of shelter
*Emotional neglect or lack of supervision
*Deliberate locking children out of the house
So if you think pulling this childish bullshit is ok, I will break into your house and steal whatever funds it takes to care for your child. I’ll fight you in the morning because you’re a garbage human being.
Stop teaching your damn kid they’re worthless. YOU made them.
Stop being your child’s enemy, start being their actual fucking caretaker.
Just so y’all know… in the state of Texas, this is grounds for me to call CPS on your ass.
And I will, too.
Same in Illinois and I fucking will.
TBH all the people coming out in support of locking kids outside for missing curfew need to just not have kids
Reminder that one of the victims of Ted Bundy (the serial killer) was locked out of her house because of missing curfew, and he offered his “help.”
This can get your child KILLED.
Also, not everyone chooses to get home late.
There may be traffic, or an accident of some kind, or they may simply have a shit sense of time or direction.
This is grounds for me to call CPS on your ass in the state of New York.
I’ve called CPS on my own sister for neglecting her kid so you bet I’d call CPS on you too.
ALSO IF UR KID MISSES CURFEW, PERHAPS, IDK, THERE MIGHT BE AN EMERGENCY????
‘I care about my kids safety so much I’ll endanger them when they dont listen to me.’
ummmm???
no actually that sounds like you care about their safety until your pride gets slighted and then fuck em
and also? thats an oxymoron. if you ever endanger a child you are the definition of a failed childcarer. its not caring.