I feel like practicing any skill would be way more fun if I could have a lil level increase thing that pops up in front of me every time I do good like in Skyrim
“Push ups increased to level 5”
“Writing dialogue increased to level 37”
“Coping mechanisms (healthy) increased to level 18”
The funniest aspect of Nancy’s personality is that she has absolutely no idea how terrible she is at lying.
“Ok, could you just let me do the talking.” Like, girl you’ve only made it this far on pure luck. You’re good at prep work, but horrible at improvisation.
I want to thank the Barbie movie, because not only it’s going to be a masterpiece that will change my life, but it also made me realise that Ryan Gosling and Ryan Reynolds are in fact two different actors
we’d all watch Deadpool vs Ken let’s not even act like we wouldn’t
Nancy is fascinating to me because here’s this teenage girl who’s very much a teenage girl. She’s not even old enough to drive in season one, and she worried about boys. But then, whenever people are in danger, it’s as if a switch is flipped. A very different switch to when she alone is in danger, mind you.
When there’s someone else to worry about, she starts operating in a Fight mindset that’s different from anyone else. She’s impulsive to an extreme. She loses all sense of self-preservation. Any sense of hesitation and trauma just gets completely repressed till the dangers over.
Just, I don’t know how to express how Insane I am over her and the fact that her desire to protect was so strong that she Immediately pointed a gun at the person she was trying to protect; at 15. She lost any care for how this might look or anything else because her mind had become too deadset on getting Steve as far away from the danger as soon as humanly possible. It was impulsive and dumb… and an incredibly genius move that could have worked really well, except she forgot to factor in the way other people freeze in the face of danger.
That’s just not even an option in her mind. She sees an unknown glowy portal while trying to save her best friend? She dives in. A little boy is possessed and hurting the people he loves most? She stabs him with a hot fire poker. She sees a car charging her brother and friends down? She stands in between them and shoots. A friend gets pulled underwater? She jumps in right after. Max and her family are being threatened? She decides to Murder a monster as fast as possible with her on the very front line.
It doesn’t always work. She’s a teenage girl; she’s not exactly a tactical warfare expert. Yet, this apparent fearlessness is noticed by everyone around her and they all follow her lead and turn to her for direction.
Meanwhile, she knows that she tends to act like that when she’s drowning the most.
Then, when the danger is over, she cries and she shuts down and she remembers she’s just a little girl again and she doesn’t know how to be that anymore. She’s stuck in a fight and protect and just survive mode that she has no idea how to escape.
