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 too hard, when, within the story, it does not make sense for that character to be.
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Too Smooth, Too Blue by SkyeBean
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
27 Jan 2024
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Despite Mace's initial reluctance, Ahsoka is visiting Depa as she recovers from what happened on Haruun Kal in the Temple. After some difficult conversations and tea, they watch the sun set across Coruscant.
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- Part 3 of Ahsoka is Mace's Padawan
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the long lost art of killing it dead by dustorange
Fandoms: DCU, Nightwing (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
28 Dec 2021
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Red Hood is a criminal, so it doesn't make sense why he would bother dragging Nightwing back to Dick Grayson's apartment and bandaging his potentially deadly gunshot wounds. What makes even less sense is why Hood keeps coming back.
(a.k.a. another "Dick redeems Red Hood with the power of affection" fic but with even less mental stability.)
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Out with Lanterns by SkyeBean
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
16 Dec 2023
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In another universe, Jedi Masters Plo Koon and Depa Billaba decide a Padawan could do Mace some good. It takes a while, but he eventually agrees.
When he takes Ahsoka Tano as his Padawan, Mace knows that he's broken through a Shatterpoint and changed the course of a life. How, he doesn't know.
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- Part 1 of Ahsoka is Mace's Padawan
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there's a bird in my heart that wants to get out by suzukiblu
Fandoms: Overwatch (Video Game)
24 Jun 2018
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The new guy is not an Omnic. Most of Blackwatch seems to think otherwise, but Jesse doesn’t care how fancy the tech upstairs is getting, no way they built an Omnic with skin.
For one thing, they’d have done a better job of it.
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Jesse McCree is the only man alive who’s touched his daemon that Genji hasn’t sworn to kill.
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the long lost art of killing it dead by dustorange
Fandoms: DCU, Nightwing (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
28 Dec 2021
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Red Hood is a criminal, so it doesn't make sense why he would bother dragging Nightwing back to Dick Grayson's apartment and bandaging his potentially deadly gunshot wounds. What makes even less sense is why Hood keeps coming back.
(a.k.a. another "Dick redeems Red Hood with the power of affection" fic but with even less mental stability.)
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your heartbeat's a countdown by always_a_slut_for_hc
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types
02 Jan 2022
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The Jedi Council was nervous. The Jedi Council was very, very nervous, so much so that the usual meditation-and-releasing-emotions-into-the-Force shtick had failed and High General Mace Windu had broken out the spotchka.
If anything called for drinks, it was discovering that your whole Order was sitting on a primed thermal detonator - well. More like a million of them.
based (with permission!) on this text post which hooked into my brain and would not let go
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alone & after. by bravo six going queer (lucentshore)
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games), Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2022
25 Oct 2022
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"Commander Shepherd sends his regards."
Right then and there, Soap should have known.
He. Should. Have. Known.
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- Part 4 of modern warfare: rebooting.
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Xiao contemplates the Traveler's mortality, and the lengths to which he is apparently willing to go to safeguard this one, insignificant human's life.
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- Part 3 of Genshin Impact Works
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fist fightin' with fire just to get close to you by lelex
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
24 Nov 2020
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"Why are you like this?” Bakugou exclaims, throwing his hands up in the air.
He’s not sure if the question is rhetorical at his own expense or if Bakugou’s actually wondering—the look on his face is almost identical in both cases.
Before Shouto can even open his mouth to respond—he’s waffling between “Like what?” for maximum Bakugou-annoyance or “It’s the trauma.” because of the one time it made Kaminari laugh so hard he cried—Bakugou is already talking over him, scrubbing a hand down his face and sighing like talking to Shouto is the hardest thing he’s ever done.
“Don’t fuckin’ answer that. I know why you’re like this.”
Problem solved. Shouto says nothing.
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Or, a temporary team-up leads to certain feelings-based revelations for both reluctantly involved parties. A conversation is also had. Sort of.
Shouto is of the opinion that they should just kiss about it before they do anything else.