Ten characters I am Extremely Normal about
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Ten characters I am Extremely Normal about
Ten characters I am Extremely Normal about
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I don't REALLY go super hard on obsessing about individual characters that much but:
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10! 
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THE Robot!
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Built by Nikola Tesla in the 1920s, powered by a nuclear reactor the size of a baseball, Atomic Robo has adventures across the twentieth century and beyond
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If you peeled open my brain and rooted around for the coolest possible setting that is still recognizeably Earth it would probably look something like this
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9! 
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Princess Kushana of Torumekia!
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A dark mirror of the actual protagonist who realized the reality of being a princess in an imperial power as a little girl when her mom was driven mad by a poison meant for her, Kushana dedicated her life to revenge and became just SO fucking cool
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Commander Samuel Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch!
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There's something to be said for a protagonist who looks into the darkness and sees the absolute worst humanity has to offer, and sees that same darkness in himself
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And then says "No"
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"I'm going to be good anyway"
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"Fuck off"
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Marisa Kirisame and also these aren't in any particular order
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The ordinary magician who achieved through months of continuous effort and experimentation what Reimu did through divine favor. But also a huge asshole
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Tycho Brahe from Diebuster
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Not a character archetype I normally go for but I just felt like her arc in Diebuster had a lot of heart!
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She got so tied up in her own personal goal of taking out her frustrations on the Fraternity that she lost sight of the actual measurable good she can do!
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Lyle Dylandy
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I forgot why I liked 00 in the first place but watching it again is bringing it all back.
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I cannot express how BAFFLED everyone was when this show was first coming out
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And they killed off one of the central characters and then replaced him with his own twin brother
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It felt like an incredible ass pull
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But they actually went somewhere with it! Lyle wasn't just "Neil is still around!" he's actually a distinctively different character who has a whole character arc about escaping from his brother's shadow! Fuck!
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THE ABSOLUTE MADLADS THEY PULLED IT OFF!
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Wei Shi Lindon!
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He's a good boy!
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Even if he makes a lot of questionable decisions in his mad desperate scramble for as much power as he can get his hands on
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I think what makes Lindon still work for me in the later series when he's gotten pretty ridiculous was that, like
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He's kind of defined by greed and hunger but it's not just for his own personal power
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He doesn't just want to be strong, he wants things to be better for EVERYONE
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He wants all his friends to ascend with him!
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Yeah!
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Ahsoka Tano
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I feel like she was the Main Character of Clone Wars almost more than Anakin was
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She's a new character created for the story and so, unlike Anakin and Kenobi, her fate is totally unknown
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It was easier to get invested and worried about her because anything could happen to her!
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Whereas we know what happens to Anakin
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he falls to the dark side and becomes Darth Vader
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It's Hornet!
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I'm just
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VERY excited for Silksong!
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Bai Lin!
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No one said they couldn't be my own characters!
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And I like her a lot
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Thank you for your time
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/bursts back in here I JUST WANT TO SAY
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That it forever saddens me that the version of Kushana most people know is the movie version
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which has very little to do with the manga version
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Please read the manga!
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It's really good and Kushana has ten times more nuance than the movie!
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I get that the manga wasn't finished yet and they were just making shit up to fit the story in one movie but it's like
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If they had only ever done one Lord of the Rings Movie
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That gets a little bit into The Two Towers and then ends with Aragorn having a sword fight with Sauron to defeat him
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THERE'S SO MUCH MORE