that gifset made me think but ‘are we really even friends’ would actually be something keith thinks considering he spend last 2+ years with krolia and before that with BoM with minimal contact with the team like?
or do yall consider people you havent talked with for more than 2 years your friends? Jus saying
Tbh, I understood where Keith was coming from, too??
It’s not even just the time spent apart. The writers didn’t really do a good job making me believe that the Paladins were super close. Yes, they’d fight and sacrifice for each other in battle; that’s how a combat unit survives. Yes, they’ve had some fun times together.
But there are some hallmarks of really close friendships – the kinds that easily endure years of absence – that the Paladins just never hit in my eyes. (At least, not all of the Paladins together. Maybe subgroups.) Really tight friends know your quirks. They know how you tend to think, because you’ve been together through some shit and have had some deep, personal conversations. They can’t read your mind, but they can guess your motives to their general neighborhood and proceed from there.
Pretty much all of the paladins other than Shiro have repeatedly mischaracterized and wildly misinterpreted Keith’s motives. After spending months, if not years, together on this mission, they still don’t seem to know how he ticks. Keith can be withdrawn, yeah, but you’d think there would have been more progress after so long. It makes sense Keith would characterize their relationship as “just a bunch of people thrown together by coincidence” when he’s so often misunderstood.
Good friends also recognize when they’ve gone too far and apologize or – if this is difficult for them – at least express guilt or try to make up for the error. This is another thing that just never seems to happen, particularly where Keith is concerned. The VLD writers have a habit of creating these interpersonal conflicts (good) and then never really resolving them (bad). Lance, in particular, often accuses Keith of selfishness or cowardice, and I can’t remember a single instance of him ever apologizing or even showing remorse. Yeah, you can let some stuff go as “water under the bridge”, but how much?
I dunno. It’s terrible, but I kind of anxious-laughed at Keith’s “Are we even friends?” line, because I felt it was skirting uncomfortably close to the truth. I think the writers meant for the Paladins to have a deep, familial, platonically intimate bond, but that’s not something I think they executed on successfully. I don’t know if it was because of outside sources demanding more robot fights and fewer conversations or what, but for me, a lot of the Paladins’ friendship has been all tell, no show.
Because when Keith demanded to know if they were really even friends, I didn’t think he was entirely wrong to do so.
Finally gonna post these drawings LOL. Been working on them on and off for the past year or something crazy. Some snippits illustrated of my absolute favorite Tododeku fic,Sore Must Be the Storm!
Spock’s the kind of Vulcan dude who has the next thirty years of his life planned out in a color coded Excel spreadsheet and then. Jim comes into his life. And Spock calls Amanda and Sarek like “esteemed parents…. you won’t believe this but…he just DOES things…he doesn’t even think about them before he does them, this morning Jim saw a dog half a mile up the street and we were twenty minutes late to a meeting with the admiralty because he kept insisting that I give the ‘good boy’ a pat on the head. And also his smile is like sunlight and I can’t say no to him. Why is he like this”
Sarek’s just like “my son….now you understand how I feel when your mother insists that we wake up at dawn to view the sunrise together…it is completely illogical and yet….every second I spend in her presence is a gift”
And Amanda’s just sitting there laughing like “holy shit, they think I’M the emotional one?”
one time on that same campus someone in the equine program didn’t shut a pasture gate and the pastures were just right there where all the classes were so when all the horses got out I just left class and saw first: a bunch of horses running
second: a bunch of equine majors chasing them on Foot for some reason
third: a group of students from the city just absolutely losing their minds laughing and recording it on their phones
fourth: a terrified work-study student parking authority who, when I asked, said “I don’t know anything about horses, but they told me to stop them if the come this way. what’ll happen if they do?? will they trample me???”
fifth: a group of boys in cowboy hats and flannels that I ended up standing with while the whole thing unfolded.
it took Twenty Minutes for someone to get on horseback to corral the herd.
I was like “is anyone on horseback?? what’s going on??”
and they said “no. we’re wondering when they’ll figure that out.”
Hot Take: Satan’s actual aim in “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” was to trick Johnny into committing the mortal sin of pride. Since he succeeded, the Devil gets his soul anyway. But enjoy your functionally useless golden fiddle for the next few decades, I guess.
Even hotter take: Johnny seems like the kind of cool and fun person who was going to go to hell for enjoying life to the fullest anyway, so all the Devil really achieved was a truly impressive self-own in the form of an immortal folk song commemorating Johnny absolutely destroying him in a fiddle duel, despite the fact that the Devil cheated by summoning an entire band of demons to back him up.
I would do a reincarnation!AU story
for that! And I would pick Boku no Hero Academia, and TodoDeku, because it’s
the only fandom I haven’t done Reincarnation!AU for at all (yet).
BONUS FIRST LINES:
Their last ending was a tragic one,
which is something Todoroki can’t stop thinking about this time around.
And it’s different, he knows it’s
different, because it’s a different era entirely. The whole of society is
different now, the hero-system is different now, there is a whole support
network for Heroes that just didn’t exist the last time they were alive.
But he keeps thinking about the
similarities, and he keeps getting caught up in those details.
The last time they were alive, they
were both heroes.
(Will always be heroes, Todoroki
thinks. It’s in Midoriya’s very nature. That won’t change, no matter how many
lifetimes they live.)
But it was when people were just
discovering they had Quirks, and more to the point, it was before Heroes knew
what they were doing. There was a kind of lawlessness in those times, and more
often than not, the villains were the ones with all the power.
They’d both died the last time. But
Midoriya had died first.
Todoroki thinks about that a lot
this time around, especially when Midoriya ends up in the hospital again.
A/N: Woo that turned into a mini-fic. That is
how much I love Reincarnation AUs. Aaand with that, I should be done with all
submitted fic titles! Huzzah!
just moving along like everyone else 