characters being competent
A collection of works where the characters are actually competent, as they would realistically be in the circumstances that they are in, or, with the experience that they have through their story.
This all started because I kept getting frustrated whenever characters are written into the damsel trope a bit to hard, when within the story it is does not make sense for that character to be.
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the dog days are over (so you’d better run) by suzukiblu
Fandoms: Overwatch (Video Game)
30 Jun 2018
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Himari can’t fly, and can hardly hop. Moving too much at all hurts her. Ziegler mentioned that there were things that could be done to help daemons in her condition, but the idea of his daemon being trapped in a body like his . . .
Genji hadn’t taken it well.
Genji hadn’t taken it well at all.
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Kallus has been slowly intergrating into the crew when the Ghost is assigned to a normal supply run. The mission goes south, as it usually does, Zeb takes a hit, Kallus doesn't take it well, and the rest of the crew try to pick of the pieces. Another mission, another mess. Just another day on the Ghost.
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“Hello Rifleman Jack Cooper” replied BT, optic adjusting as Jack got closer.
“You can just call me Jack if you like” said Jack, leaning on the rails. At this height, he only had to tilt his head back a little to look BT in the optic. “Or Cooper. Either or is fine” finished Jack, shrugging his shoulders.
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A sort of sequel to 'Potential'.
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McCree keeps watching him like he wants something.
Genji still can’t figure out what he could possibly want.
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Damian's being picked on at school. Jason calls in the big guns.
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“Itachi,” His mentor and commanding officer says grimly, his single visible eye angry, the line of his jaw tense under the black of his mask. “You forget that I was the Yondaime’s student. I may not be as politically influential as those old codgers sitting on the council, but there is plenty I can do to try and stop this shitshow.”
The horrible, cold feeling in the pit of his stomach hasn't vanished. But, staring at the firm, unflinching expression on his captain’s face, he feels the tiniest flicker of…hope.
Or: In another universe, Itachi breaks down and ends up spilling the beans to Hatake Kakashi.
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Your Divinity Eternal by daoguang_yongheng (antsinabox)
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
21 Nov 2023
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The opera has drawn to a close. Focalors is dead - the Hydro Archon is no more. And Furina has left the stage, leaving a barren theatre where an adoring audience once cheered.
Neuvillette alone remains. If he should be the only worshipper left at the altar, so be it.
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A new season meant another Legend was to join their ranks among the Games. ‘Fuse,’ Bloodhound had heard him called by the others. Rumors and speculation traveled fast among the current Legends - if he was friendly, what his abilities were, what he looked like - but for them, the man was merely félagi or andskoti, depending on the squad match up. Nothing more.
At least, that's how it was supposed to be.
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And there’s a pattern to his exhales that Johnny knows well enough to read as: I don’t deserve you. I don’t deserve to say it too.
But he lets Simon hold him like that, his face pressed against the side of his temple, breathing in the scent of his hair, arms cradling and tightening simultaneously, as if Johnny is both the most precious and most dangerous thing in the living room.Fools in love, family, and finding a way... The complimentary bonus epilogue of 'all that's said in the low light'
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- Part 2 of silver and gold
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As much as Yukine enjoys all the praise for becoming a hafuri—and especially enjoys rubbing it in his master's face—something rubs him the wrong way about how his newfound status reflects on Yato. Really, he had been so sure that Yato was the one who was going to embarrass them at the colloquy.