madimpossibledreamer

also if they were actually planning on doing anything with the concept which they’re absolutely not and also didn’t have the rights to the characters but also don’t have the guts to actually follow through seeing as they still refuse to take any of the responsibility for the debacle of pushing Hydra merch during one of the biggest spreads of fascism, i.e. neonazism, in America like “Oh Hydra isn’t affiliated with Nazis or fascism they were just started by Hitler to look into the magic and tech that could win him the war” they should’ve dug deep into that angle. It would’ve lost them an audience and painted a target on their backs, sure, but no worse than the original Cap writers who were getting threats for having him punch Hitler. It wasn’t a “that’s the patriotic thing to do” thing back then, it was a brave action, standing up for the little guy, etc.
Anyway, rant aside. They should’ve shown that Steve’s been seeing the rise of fascism in America and around the world and it makes him question whether they should be putting the names of people on a list based on their skills or genetics (mutants) and forced under government scrutiny or put to work or herded up. They should absolutely have him team up with Magneto for that one, as a temporary alliance. Like, I think there would be some fascinating dynamics here and it’s a hard-hitting story, because we’re trying to pretend this problem isn’t a problem that exists, but that’s not how fascism goes away. And Captain America and Magneto of all people know this.
And I have no idea how Tony “kiss my shiny metal butt Senators” got to pro-Hero Registration Act, but then, they really like to play fast and loose with his characterization and ignore any and all established character arc for him by the next movie, so. I dunno. Maybe he refuses, they’re like “well, we will confiscate everything, including JARVIS, the bots, etc” and he’s basically like “they’re family, you can’t do that” and they’re like “but this paper says we can” and he caves and basically goes catatonic until one of the rogues gives him an idea of how to skirt around it.
(To be fair, most of what I know about the Hero Registration Act which I’m 90% is not the name in Marvel is from City of Heroes. So. I might be off on some details here.)
And if they wanted the cliché and eye-rolling Hydra infiltrating SHIELD, just use it here. SHIELD already has a prison of its own! Like, it works from thematics and storytelling perspectives, here! They could have multiple movies that get, like, superhero-thriller action there.
...Don’t get me started on Infinity War. Massively unpopular opinion: that’s also hot garbage, Thanos, have you even heard of Malthus or the expanded human geography concepts? Carrying capacity is not stagnant. Even assuming your plan works, which it doesn’t, it’s a one-time deal and you were prepared to die to get it done, so...like, the universe doesn’t stay frozen in time, unless it does in which case you might as well have vanished the entirety of the universe from existence because it’s basically just living death, more people are going to get born, what happens then, huh? I don’t know if you’re too thick to realize that the only thing you’re really gonna accomplish is a whole bunch of cruelty or if like certain politicians cruelty is the point. Like, your plan made more sense when you were trying to use a bunch of death to impress the Lady Death.

Is me remembering story arcs in Dark Astoria in the Beforetimes a total lie?    Because I vaguely remember story arcs in Dark Astoria.    Then again, as Beforetimes DA was kind of Silent Hill, maybe I’m just diving into the collective unconscious and finding things that weren’t really there.

He probably goes for outfits like this more often.  The skin still isn't quite right and you can't change sclera in CoH sadly (that'd be a neat feature though!)

city of heroes pic
( again, placing under a cut because Willow's design choices )

Now, Jesse's costume might be a tiny bit more reflective than it should be but otherwise is 100% accurate, unlike Xander's, which will be coming later.  He went as intimidating as he could go.  Costume in CoH as per usual :)

Though it being cyberpunk, the armor should be less shiny.  City of Heroes costume designer ftw again.

Generally, Miyamoto hates doing her makeup.  She doesn't like the feeling on her face or having to sit still.  Sometimes she will for formal occasions.  Most likely she asked Cordy to do instead (and also maybe her hair).  Generally, she doesn't like wearing actual armor, either, but the silver and gold she finds fun, and given her sense of humor she'd absolutely show up in a suit of armor rather than an actual suit.  I really like how confident she looks in this one.

Posting from new computer!  it's not fully set up yet, but it's still exciting.  Unfortunately it also defaulted to the wrong time zone, so I am running late /runs in circles
This is the Halloween costume, where Miyamoto decided to go with a Valkyrie armor look.  (In Bloody Petals, she'd probably like the aesthetics of armor, but the bulkiness of most armor would tick her off.)

This isn't perfect, obviously; the tattoo glow is the wrong color (it should be green), and there should be more full-body glow.  As of now as far as I'm aware the color can't be changed in City of Heroes.  That being said there's a bit of a spectrum of how much power you're drawing from the youkai (and therefore how much your tattoo is glowing) and it's not exactly as cut and dry as 'invoke' or 'drawing on', though those are the two named distinctions.  There's even more given the wide power range between chinpira and the Chairwoman.  There's more glow here than there would be for simply drawing on the irezumi, but it's also not full-body animal features overlay glow, which is the point at which you should if you were at all questioning it duck and run for cover.  Particularly if it's a Matriarch.  Particularly if she brought her bat.  (honestly you probably should do that long before that, but.  Some people like a challenge.)