I think about Ernest Frankenstein a lot because he's the one surviving member of the family and the sole heir to the Frankenstein estate. He also is the only one who can pass Frankenstein genes down so that movies like *Young Frankenstein* can exist.
He's also adorable in my opinion, because he was sick as a child, and now he's better and trying to find his way in the world. And he hates school and I just think that's sweet. But also his family is trying to decide for him what his career path should be, so that's a little sad.
My point being, Ernest is a little behind on his education. It doesn't seem like he has any of his own prospects, and as far we know his family is his only support system. He seems pretty vulnerable. And then his little brother dies while *he* was playing a game with him: seems like that might mess a person up. And then his family friend dies, ok. We don't know if he grieves, but let's go on.
His older sister, a critical member of his support system, goes and gets married. She's going to be out of the house at least. But then she gets hardcore murdered, and then Alphonse, their father, dies soon after that.
All Ernest has now is Victor, his adult brother. That is his only known family, his only support, his only safety net. And then Victor leaves his 16-year-old brother, behind developmentally, at home when he goes on his revenge spree. HE LEFT ERNEST ALONE, BY HIMSELF. Victor didn't for a moment consider his little brother, didn't even mention him when he went off to DIE in a foolish little revenge girls' trip that he wasn't going to win.
And I very well know that Victor was mentally ill. I understand that he was grieving and had actually been institutionalized. This isn't a Victor hatepost.
I'm just saying, the man abadoned his creation thoughtlessly, and we all know how that went. So now he abandons his little brother, the forgotten middle child, the only one who didn't die, to do god knows what with god knows what consequences.
And Victor talks about how he loves his family. He doesn't want to be separated from them. He doesn't want them dead. He grieves them. But Ernest is still alive. Ernest is still alive and I bet he grieves too. And he's your family and I sure he loves you and you both could support each other. Don't abandon him. He deserves better.
Fire Emblem gets given a dirty hand in Tiger and Bunny. She doesn't seem to mind being misgendered so I suspect her pronouns are she/he, however she gets that typical homophobic anime treatment where her being queer (or a flamboyant gay man, as depicted in the series) has her sexually harassing other characters and it feels so frustrating to see.
My response to this isn't to shun Nathan, instead I decided pretty early on that she was my favourite Hero, and I think the movie that features her accepting her past is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT and beautiful. I will love even bad depictions of us, because sometimes that's all we have.
I remember what was done to Grell in the anime of Kuroshitsuji, and I still adore Grell to this day.
note: I love both of these anime dearly AND feel comfortable voicing my criticisms of them without needing to throw the whole thing out, because I have a functioning brain.
ok its been a hot decade since tiger and bunny season 1 but like, can season 2 give us the ryan and yuri dynamic pls:
ryan: “yea ill just flash my pearly whites like i do with all of the ladies and suggestively pour out a drink for this man i am actively complimenting behind closed doors”
honestly can you imagine yuri just sitting there, trying to control his heart rate as he thinks of the possibility—a very low possibility, given, well, ryan, but a possibility nonetheless—that this man, who looks like he overdosed on too many protein shakes, has somehow figured out yuri’s identity as lunatic, only to be faced with the (equally astute) observation that he has the biggest sweet tooth in sternbild
from the rising movie, we know that ryan might be brash and somewhat obnoxious, but he’s actually pretty observant and picks up on “people things” easily (e.g. noticing how well barnaby and kotetsu work together and how much of a tsundere barnaby actually is towards his relationship with kotetsu) - this begs the question of whether ryan, most likely during property damage hearings, noticed how often yuri is SCOOPING into that honey jar:
ryan has sniffed out one tsundere before and now he’s working his charm on a suspected “sugar fiend”—
your honour, you are guilty of letting this poor boy down XDD
anyways can yuri have a buddy arc with ryan these two polar opposites would have so many fun shenanigans together
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Shirin sends them a plush of Elizabeth that Christmas for reasons unknown.
Also, she’s a gentoo penguin. The cuties.
I did some more fantasy archery trope testing. This time the arrow stabby thing!
origami cyclone
reblog and put in the tags how long you’ve been reading/writing fanfiction for
i only come up with holiday art ideas after the fact
finally! fourth chapter of dutch elm disease is done!
if anyone would like to look this chapter over for grammar and plot consistencies, i'd be over the moon! just send me a dm or an ask, and i'll send you the gdoc ♡
caution: you gotta be comfortable with some heavy themes!