#QuestionOfTheDay #FavCharacterAtoZ
-
#QuestionOfTheDay #FavCharacterAtoZ
Who is your favourite fictional character from any work whose name (if they only have one) or first name begins with the letter "A".
Please include the series/work the character is from and why they are your favourite.
Include the hashtag #FavCharacterAtoZ also, so we can easily group the answers.
Use the tag #FavCharacterA for further subgrouping.
*and yes we are going to do 26 of these, maybe not every day, it depends on the response rate
#fiction #books #anime #manga #TTRPG #CCGs #VideoGames #superheroes #comics #comicbooks #superheroes #writing #webcomics #poetry #mythology #movies #film #television #tv #musicals #scifi #fantasy
@ami_angelwings I guess I’ll submit a separate as well. And take a dip into the webcomics world, as I have been following Antimony Carver for a good couple decades now.
Gunnerkrigg Court - Page 1 - By Tom Siddell
Gunnerkrigg Court is a science-fantasy webcomic created by Tom Siddell. It is updated online three days a week.
(www.gunnerkrigg.com)
Also one Agatha…. Clay
-
#QuestionOfTheDay #FavCharacterAtoZ
Who is your favourite fictional character from any work whose name (if they only have one) or first name begins with the letter "A".
Please include the series/work the character is from and why they are your favourite.
Include the hashtag #FavCharacterAtoZ also, so we can easily group the answers.
Use the tag #FavCharacterA for further subgrouping.
*and yes we are going to do 26 of these, maybe not every day, it depends on the response rate
#fiction #books #anime #manga #TTRPG #CCGs #VideoGames #superheroes #comics #comicbooks #superheroes #writing #webcomics #poetry #mythology #movies #film #television #tv #musicals #scifi #fantasy
@ami_angelwings I'm bad at remembering favourites but to steal your suggestion: Amy Rose from the Sonic the Hedgehog series is definitely up there. She's generally very competent, has varied hobbies outside of Adventure, and is one of very few cast members well rounded enough to be trusted to live on their own (i.e. we have photographic evidence of her having purchased a vegetable at least once). Most importantly, as of the end of Sonic Adventure has trained herself to be super strong out of pure spite.
She's a very cool and admirable character, trapped in a series about someone else that for a long time hasn't really known what to do with her. Probably because she's too cool.
-
@ami_angelwings I'm bad at remembering favourites but to steal your suggestion: Amy Rose from the Sonic the Hedgehog series is definitely up there. She's generally very competent, has varied hobbies outside of Adventure, and is one of very few cast members well rounded enough to be trusted to live on their own (i.e. we have photographic evidence of her having purchased a vegetable at least once). Most importantly, as of the end of Sonic Adventure has trained herself to be super strong out of pure spite.
She's a very cool and admirable character, trapped in a series about someone else that for a long time hasn't really known what to do with her. Probably because she's too cool.
@ami_angelwings They've moved on from it but there was something funny about Amy being typecast as the useless groupie girlfriend archetype but also being able to throw hands with the rest of them, the best of them, tougher than leather
-
#QuestionOfTheDay #FavCharacterAtoZ
Who is your favourite fictional character from any work whose name (if they only have one) or first name begins with the letter "A".
Please include the series/work the character is from and why they are your favourite.
Include the hashtag #FavCharacterAtoZ also, so we can easily group the answers.
Use the tag #FavCharacterA for further subgrouping.
*and yes we are going to do 26 of these, maybe not every day, it depends on the response rate
#fiction #books #anime #manga #TTRPG #CCGs #VideoGames #superheroes #comics #comicbooks #superheroes #writing #webcomics #poetry #mythology #movies #film #television #tv #musicals #scifi #fantasy
#QuestionOfTheDay #FavCharacterAtoZ
Who is your favourite fictional character from any work whose name (if they only have one) or first name begins with the letter "B"?
Please include the series/work the character is from and why they are your favourite.
Include the hashtag #FavCharacterAtoZ also, so we can easily group the answers.
Add the hashtag #FavCharacterB to it so there's sub-sorting as well.
#fiction #books #anime #manga #TTRPG #CCGs #VideoGames #superheroes #comics #comicbooks #superheroes #writing #webcomics #poetry #mythology #movies #film #television #tv #musicals #scifi #fantasy
-
#QuestionOfTheDay #FavCharacterAtoZ
Who is your favourite fictional character from any work whose name (if they only have one) or first name begins with the letter "B"?
Please include the series/work the character is from and why they are your favourite.
Include the hashtag #FavCharacterAtoZ also, so we can easily group the answers.
Add the hashtag #FavCharacterB to it so there's sub-sorting as well.
#fiction #books #anime #manga #TTRPG #CCGs #VideoGames #superheroes #comics #comicbooks #superheroes #writing #webcomics #poetry #mythology #movies #film #television #tv #musicals #scifi #fantasy
My #FavCharacterAtoZ that starts with B is:
Balsa from Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
She's an expert spearwoman and bodyguard who swore to save 8 lives to make up for the 8 lives that were taken to protect her as a child.
But at some point she realized that taking lives to protect a life is contradictory, and all life is valuable - killing the disposable guards to protect somebody important doesn't balance things out. So she became so skilled that she can protect lives without killing people even in a heated fight against lethal enemies.
Later a spear is forged for her that channels that desire to protect life and allows her to "kill" a person's desire for revenge that put her in a situation where she had to kill him or he would kill others. She's just the best.
-
#QuestionOfTheDay #FavCharacterAtoZ
Who is your favourite fictional character from any work whose name (if they only have one) or first name begins with the letter "B"?
Please include the series/work the character is from and why they are your favourite.
Include the hashtag #FavCharacterAtoZ also, so we can easily group the answers.
Add the hashtag #FavCharacterB to it so there's sub-sorting as well.
#fiction #books #anime #manga #TTRPG #CCGs #VideoGames #superheroes #comics #comicbooks #superheroes #writing #webcomics #poetry #mythology #movies #film #television #tv #musicals #scifi #fantasy
@ami_angelwings I really like your pick (Balsa is indeed *awesome*) but I'm going to go with...
Boneclaw Mother, from Ursula Vernon's DIGGER comic. Absolutely the best no-fucks-to-give matriarchal figure in pretty much any storytelling medium.
-
@Z_Zed_Zed @ami_angelwings yessss, Breq is a great one, well picked.
-
#QuestionOfTheDay #FavCharacterAtoZ
Who is your favourite fictional character from any work whose name (if they only have one) or first name begins with the letter "B"?
Please include the series/work the character is from and why they are your favourite.
Include the hashtag #FavCharacterAtoZ also, so we can easily group the answers.
Add the hashtag #FavCharacterB to it so there's sub-sorting as well.
#fiction #books #anime #manga #TTRPG #CCGs #VideoGames #superheroes #comics #comicbooks #superheroes #writing #webcomics #poetry #mythology #movies #film #television #tv #musicals #scifi #fantasy
@ami_angelwings Detective Beans by @exocomics I mean look at him
-
My #FavCharacterAtoZ that starts with B is:
Balsa from Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
She's an expert spearwoman and bodyguard who swore to save 8 lives to make up for the 8 lives that were taken to protect her as a child.
But at some point she realized that taking lives to protect a life is contradictory, and all life is valuable - killing the disposable guards to protect somebody important doesn't balance things out. So she became so skilled that she can protect lives without killing people even in a heated fight against lethal enemies.
Later a spear is forged for her that channels that desire to protect life and allows her to "kill" a person's desire for revenge that put her in a situation where she had to kill him or he would kill others. She's just the best.
@ami_angelwings I am ABSOLUTELY going to ditto on Balsa #FavCharacterAtoZ
-
@ami_angelwings Detective Beans by @exocomics I mean look at him
@BigShellEvent @ami_angelwings oh right yeah that's a good choice
-
#QuestionOfTheDay #FavCharacterAtoZ
Who is your favourite fictional character from any work whose name (if they only have one) or first name begins with the letter "A".
Please include the series/work the character is from and why they are your favourite.
Include the hashtag #FavCharacterAtoZ also, so we can easily group the answers.
Use the tag #FavCharacterA for further subgrouping.
*and yes we are going to do 26 of these, maybe not every day, it depends on the response rate
#fiction #books #anime #manga #TTRPG #CCGs #VideoGames #superheroes #comics #comicbooks #superheroes #writing #webcomics #poetry #mythology #movies #film #television #tv #musicals #scifi #fantasy
@ami_angelwings Took me a whole day, but A2 from Nier: Automata.
It’s ripe with spoilers, and all the spoilers is why I like her so much. You get introduced to her and her background slowly, and then she plays a much more important role later on.
I really enjoyed how well written her story is and how well she fits into the narrative. I prefer her over 2B who can be a bit dull in comparison.
-
#QuestionOfTheDay #FavCharacterAtoZ
Who is your favourite fictional character from any work whose name (if they only have one) or first name begins with the letter "B"?
Please include the series/work the character is from and why they are your favourite.
Include the hashtag #FavCharacterAtoZ also, so we can easily group the answers.
Add the hashtag #FavCharacterB to it so there's sub-sorting as well.
#fiction #books #anime #manga #TTRPG #CCGs #VideoGames #superheroes #comics #comicbooks #superheroes #writing #webcomics #poetry #mythology #movies #film #television #tv #musicals #scifi #fantasy
@ami_angelwings #FavCharacterAtoZ #FavCharacterB Barry Burton - he was too pure for that fictional world.
-
#QuestionOfTheDay #FavCharacterAtoZ
Who is your favourite fictional character from any work whose name (if they only have one) or first name begins with the letter "A".
Please include the series/work the character is from and why they are your favourite.
Include the hashtag #FavCharacterAtoZ also, so we can easily group the answers.
Use the tag #FavCharacterA for further subgrouping.
*and yes we are going to do 26 of these, maybe not every day, it depends on the response rate
#fiction #books #anime #manga #TTRPG #CCGs #VideoGames #superheroes #comics #comicbooks #superheroes #writing #webcomics #poetry #mythology #movies #film #television #tv #musicals #scifi #fantasy
-
#QuestionOfTheDay #FavCharacterAtoZ
Who is your favourite fictional character from any work whose name (if they only have one) or first name begins with the letter "B"?
Please include the series/work the character is from and why they are your favourite.
Include the hashtag #FavCharacterAtoZ also, so we can easily group the answers.
Add the hashtag #FavCharacterB to it so there's sub-sorting as well.
#fiction #books #anime #manga #TTRPG #CCGs #VideoGames #superheroes #comics #comicbooks #superheroes #writing #webcomics #poetry #mythology #movies #film #television #tv #musicals #scifi #fantasy
-
#QuestionOfTheDay #FavCharacterAtoZ
Who is your favourite fictional character from any work whose name (if they only have one) or first name begins with the letter "B"?
Please include the series/work the character is from and why they are your favourite.
Include the hashtag #FavCharacterAtoZ also, so we can easily group the answers.
Add the hashtag #FavCharacterB to it so there's sub-sorting as well.
#fiction #books #anime #manga #TTRPG #CCGs #VideoGames #superheroes #comics #comicbooks #superheroes #writing #webcomics #poetry #mythology #movies #film #television #tv #musicals #scifi #fantasy
@ami_angelwings@urusai.social i'm gonna cheat a bit here since there's not many competitors for b and there are many competitors for k and anyways we hear him referred to primarily in a way that romanizes to start with a b but 爸/Mr. Kwan from 1000×RESIST
i again am not wholly sure how to properly articulate to transmit the depth of feeling he evokes in me but i feel like the best way to describe his is as intensely, beautifully, tragically human.
which i guess he arguably shares with many many of the characters from the game, but i do specifically love him
hes idealistic and traumatized and masks it all and lives and misses home and lives and dies and i don't know how to give this proper but he is real and loves you but cant do everything and is weak and sad and you love him
#FavCharacterAtoZ
#FavCharacterB
-
My #FavCharacterAtoZ that starts with B is:
Balsa from Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
She's an expert spearwoman and bodyguard who swore to save 8 lives to make up for the 8 lives that were taken to protect her as a child.
But at some point she realized that taking lives to protect a life is contradictory, and all life is valuable - killing the disposable guards to protect somebody important doesn't balance things out. So she became so skilled that she can protect lives without killing people even in a heated fight against lethal enemies.
Later a spear is forged for her that channels that desire to protect life and allows her to "kill" a person's desire for revenge that put her in a situation where she had to kill him or he would kill others. She's just the best.
one of my favourite scenes in the anime is near the end of the series when the mikaido's hunters that Balsa fought and defeated at the very beginning (1v4) confront her as to why she didn't kill them when she easily could have and she says she had just agreed to save a life so it seemed counterproductive to take a life, and then the hunters say that if it was because she was looking down on them, they would have to settle things with her but now they realized they were always outmatched and agree to follow her orders in the coming fight.
I also just love how Tanda doesn't understand just how skilled his crush is, he thinks the Hunters are a danger to them when she's actually way better than all of them.
-
one of my favourite scenes in the anime is near the end of the series when the mikaido's hunters that Balsa fought and defeated at the very beginning (1v4) confront her as to why she didn't kill them when she easily could have and she says she had just agreed to save a life so it seemed counterproductive to take a life, and then the hunters say that if it was because she was looking down on them, they would have to settle things with her but now they realized they were always outmatched and agree to follow her orders in the coming fight.
I also just love how Tanda doesn't understand just how skilled his crush is, he thinks the Hunters are a danger to them when she's actually way better than all of them.
There's a lot of annoying anime fanboying over Balsa's mentor Jiguro on youtube clips of the show because he seems so cool and he killed all his friends (to protect Balsa as a kid) and he could also 1v4 people, but they don't understand that actually he failed in the context that he was forced to kill his friends to save Balsa, and Balsa actually surpasses him when she is able to save Chagum's life without killing his pursuers. She's put in the same position her mentor was when she was a kid, but she became even more skilled than him because she wanted to be able to save people without also killing more people.
I love that Moribito questions the whole "saving 8 lives to make up for the 8 that were taken for me" b/c even from the beginning I'm like 'but aren't you just killing more ppl?"
-
There's a lot of annoying anime fanboying over Balsa's mentor Jiguro on youtube clips of the show because he seems so cool and he killed all his friends (to protect Balsa as a kid) and he could also 1v4 people, but they don't understand that actually he failed in the context that he was forced to kill his friends to save Balsa, and Balsa actually surpasses him when she is able to save Chagum's life without killing his pursuers. She's put in the same position her mentor was when she was a kid, but she became even more skilled than him because she wanted to be able to save people without also killing more people.
I love that Moribito questions the whole "saving 8 lives to make up for the 8 that were taken for me" b/c even from the beginning I'm like 'but aren't you just killing more ppl?"
It's also interesting, they never directly address that her spear has magic powers but it's heavily implied. The blacksmith who forges Balsa's later spear is reluctant to reforge her spear, as he forged Jiguro's and lamented at all the death that happened at the hands of his creation. But after telling that story to the Mikado's guards (who he also forges weapons for), they tell him about how they fought a spearwoman in a similar situation but she did not kill any of them.
He then forges Balsa's spear after they leave, saying his greatest goal is to create a weapon that doesn't kill, but severs the bonds of karma.
And then later when forced to kill, Balsa's spear slashes through her opponent but leaves him without his desire for revenge. Balsa never really gets why.
-
It's also interesting, they never directly address that her spear has magic powers but it's heavily implied. The blacksmith who forges Balsa's later spear is reluctant to reforge her spear, as he forged Jiguro's and lamented at all the death that happened at the hands of his creation. But after telling that story to the Mikado's guards (who he also forges weapons for), they tell him about how they fought a spearwoman in a similar situation but she did not kill any of them.
He then forges Balsa's spear after they leave, saying his greatest goal is to create a weapon that doesn't kill, but severs the bonds of karma.
And then later when forced to kill, Balsa's spear slashes through her opponent but leaves him without his desire for revenge. Balsa never really gets why.
I always figured that if Guts and Balsa ever met, their weapons would talk to each other. They both are specially created and connected to their wielder and channel their character.
-
My #FavCharacterAtoZ that starts with B is:
Balsa from Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
She's an expert spearwoman and bodyguard who swore to save 8 lives to make up for the 8 lives that were taken to protect her as a child.
But at some point she realized that taking lives to protect a life is contradictory, and all life is valuable - killing the disposable guards to protect somebody important doesn't balance things out. So she became so skilled that she can protect lives without killing people even in a heated fight against lethal enemies.
Later a spear is forged for her that channels that desire to protect life and allows her to "kill" a person's desire for revenge that put her in a situation where she had to kill him or he would kill others. She's just the best.
@ami_angelwings she is pretty great
