tfw you are just trying to blorbo-blather to your spouse and accidentally figure something out
(spoilers for a 28.5 year old TV show)
me: You know, it's funny that my favorite characters in Beast Wars are both Predacons who defected to become Maximals
me: And even though they do end up caring about their teammates, neither of them really makes any effort to assimilate and "act Maximal," like they know they're different and they…are proud of…their, uh, their defining character traits and…don't care if the people around them don't…um…don't…
me, who as a Vietnamese kid went to mostly PWIs from high school onward but, among other things, never took an English (offline) name bc fuck that, I am who I am and I won't change that for them just to "fit in" bc why would I want to: …wait.
me: wait fuck.
me: am i…am i having a revelation. about why I've liked both Blackarachnia and Dinobot for twenty-eight and a half years.
my husband: yeah, probably
I was just talking about characters in an ancient cgi show, it wasn't supposed to be that deeeeeep ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜