One thing that’s nice about working on ASL in Red is Luffy’s canon character as not really giving a shit about the greater state of the world except as it affects his friends and crew.
Like, I am having so much fun on the later stuff where getting closer to One Piece and destabilizing the order the New World has had for nearly twenty years and secrecy the World Government has had for centuries and just…the main characters barely care. Like, they have friends who care (Revolutionary Army members, Hancock, and such) but they have their own totally separate goals they’re more focused on.
To them that’s all side-stuff. And it’s HILARIOUS.
I have mixed feelings on him. On on the one hand, his backstory is very interesting and I like the idea of a character desperate to keep up a cool, untouchable facade as a shield. On the other hand, we know from Pudding’s backstory that the bullying was still going on well after he was an adult and established as the “cool” brother so even if the older siblings are implied to have developed some sort of camaraderie, they didn’t do jack to protect their younger siblings which sucks. Like, dude was so bullied his sister was attacked over it, and now years later he’s cool with his younger siblings getting the same treatment? That’s…less than cool, imo.
Part of the issue is just how old he is. Dude’s nearly 50, he’s one of the older warriors we’ve faced, but his backstory is pretty much confined to his childhood. Like, compare Doflamingo, who’s seven years younger. We know about his childhood, teen years, and young adult years and how that affected the people around him. For Katakuri, we only know his childhood and then it’s just him keeping up the facade. That gap bugs me. We may get more later, since he and Pudding can still reappear, but it bugs me right now.
Luffy: *is the man who staged the most infamous and successful jailbreak from the most impenetrable prison ever in the entire history of the world*
Kaido, a man who apparently never reads the newscoo: lol lock him up that’ll teach him
I mean, it gets better: one of Kaido’s scenes before we got to Wano was literally him reading the paper about Law and Luffy taking out Doflamingo. Which also involved some jailbreaking, in addition to restoring rightful rulers to an island.
Dude knows all the shit Luffy can pull and is just like “okay, but I’m the one who can actually stop this chaotic menace.”
Quirkless Izuku, who gets into the general education department of Yuuei. Izuku decides that the sports festival is the perfect opportunity to make a not-so-gentle point about why valuing flashy quirks over everything else is a dumb idea.
There’s 40 kids in 1st year of gen ed, and another 40 in support. There’s about 3 months to the sports festival. Plenty of time for Izuku to organize them into a cohesive team with a common goal:
Ensuring absolutely nobody in the heroics department makes it to the 3rd round.
whatever your opinion about aang not killing ozai, I think we can all agree that ozai would have literally rather died than live the rest of his life as That Guy Who Got The Shit Kicked Outta Him By A 12-Year-Old Pacifist Monk.
me: aang is a very powerful avatar and the fact that he was able to mostly-master all the elements at such a young age means he would be a terrifying opponent!
also me: avatar roku’s spirit spends at least 30% of his time haunting ozai, slapping trash can lids together & yelling “you got beat up by caillou”
Silver does this also, which was probably handy for silverware before antibacterial dish soap was invented.
That’s mentioned in the article as well. They also stated that a copper or silver container can disinfect a pot of water in a few hours. im gonna add a copper vessel to my emergency provisions now. @yourunclejingo you may find this stuff interesting too.
Its almost like our ancestors did shit that made sense even if they didn’t always fully understand why.
Remember today when you see 100+ articles about how ‘civil’ and ‘noble’ H.W. Bush was that today is World AIDS Day. That 100,000 people, many LGBT+ individuals, especially gay men, died under his and Reagan’s watch. That he banned HIV+ people from entering the US, reduced research funding, and prevented educators from speaking about safe sex in favor of abstinence only education.
I think one of the things I liked the most about Zabuza (and one of the things that actually make him one of the series best foils to Naruto himself) is that Zabuza is indeed an underdog. The guy started off with absolutely nothing, no friends. no family, no support, no home, nothing. He has no bloodline, no lineage and no special powers besides an unexplained ‘demon chakra’ that may very well just be all his hate and rage he managed to bullshit into a terrifying but functional ninja technique through sheer force of will. He’s just a guy with a chip on his shoulder and a regenerating but otherwise unremarkable big ass sword. That’s it. The guy wasn’t even meant to be a ninja, and looking at this fucked up awful hell village he already literally changed by himself (and one of their most defining policies too) he decides he wants to be Mizukage.
Unfortunately for him he didn’t have destiny on his side, or a giant chakra monster or a bloodline giving him a boost, so he never really did have a chance. In the Naruto world real underdogs never win.
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