category is: boss/executive character in a movie whom the filmmakers modeled after a real person and are using that character to work through personal professional grievances
I swear some of the criticism of bg3 companions just boils down to “how dare this traumatised person act traumatised”. PTSD is not always a pretty delicate flower of a person trembling because they’re sad. It gets ugly.
I’ve had people say that Shadowheart is a villain on my posts. She’s a cult victim with a mind-wipe and a shock collar.
“Astarion lies to you” if you spent two hundred years where your only two choices were ‘lie to people’ and 'get tortured’ I’d be fascinated to see which option you’d choose.
Homura is just straight up one of the weirdest people imaginable. Like, forget about the time loop tragic doomed romance for a bit, I want to see what it looks like if she wins and then actually tries to romance Madoka. She has a massive collection of illegal firearms. She builds her own bombs. She lives in an ultra-modernist white box apartment that she’s decorated with a couch made of concentric circles, a giant swinging knife pendulum to remind her of the ever-present flow of time, and a wall of several dozen screens. She communicates primarily in vague and ominous warnings and is more or less incapable of saying anything directly. She addresses everyone she meets by their full name with no honorific which comes across as bizarre and intimidating. If you count time loop years she’s 26. She was raised in a catholic orphanage. I want to see her take Madoka on a horrifically bad date and cry in the bathroom partway through when she realizes she’s fucking up
This is why Madoka is the ideal partner for Homura. Madoka meets a corkscrew-haired blond dual-toting rifles jumping into void portals to fight paper-mache nightmare manifestations, and instead of fleeing to the nearest authority figure in about a week she is down to enlist herself in the shadow games out of an explicitly-stated fit of “I have nothing better to do” pique. Homura would take her on a first date to a bomb-rigged shooting gallery in space where the targets are crucified porcelain dolls and it would be Madoka’s new favorite game in five minutes. No one has ever been down for literally anything the way Madoka is.
