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We’re going to have to start making excuses for the lack of terror.

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Castlevania, despite some of the creators being creeps, has a good one with Sypha and Belmont. It’s established off-screen and you simply see them interact as a couple that works closely together.

You don’t see the courtship at all and there’s little eroticism. I don’t know if lacking that excludes it from being considered romantic.

But I like the relationship where they clearly care about each other and I’m certain the romance would be believable if they showed it in-scene. It is odd however how Belmont has a foul mouth but won’t say something explicit to Sypha when they’re alone.

The other romantic relationships in the series are also established off-screen for the most part. You see couples talking to each other in bed and stuff, but there aren’t too many declarations of love or discussion on their relationship, but I think the lack of dialogue around that could be excused by it being 1474.

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Thank you

Just like Finn!

I hate that the possibility of a complicated story/moral question died on the vine in the first ten minutes of TFA when a smiling Finn gunned down his former child soldier friends.

In my book’s setting, anyone can learn magic, but the time, teaching, and practice required isn’t allotted equally. Different learning styles and material conditions mean that people who would be talented sorcerers end up doing mundane work augmented by magic.

One part of the history though is that there’s been a history of laborers who used magic derived from servitude to cause a class-based revolution. The nobles who practiced fancy complex magic were few in number and lacked the experience to fight a long war with farmers who water crops by hauling thousands of gallons at once or cleaners who can sweep a castle with a single wind spell.

The tools of their oppression (being railroaded into service-based magic) became their liberation. Centuries later, that informs policy on magic and how it’s accessed.

Forced to go to school while infected with a deadly virus - I sleep.

Asked to acknowledge someone’s gender identity - real shit.