…how deep a hole did I just dig myself
Mon, Apr. 27th, 2020 02:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexseanchai[mods: "fandom: miraculous ladybug" tag please (ETA: thanks!)]
So I am working on a Miraculous Ladybug novel-length and the reason I have postulated for why Émilie landed in her coma (or possibly dead, this is not canonically clear) is that she overused the Peacock Miraculous (as canon implies) for the purpose of—
( here's the relevant canon stuff and here's the idea I had )
Which means the sentimonster!Gorilla thought implies really loudly that Gorilla does not speak because sentimonsters as a rule do not speak. And the sum of "disabled character" and "not human character" is always nasty.
(I am embarrassed to note I didn't think of any of this till today, even though I had this thought weeks ago, and I only put this together because another ML fan asked my opinion on Gorilla's dialogue in his fic, where he's going the "Gorilla has crap for French syntax and therefore prefers not to speak" route.)
Is there any way to modify this idea to avoid the undesirable implications, do y'all think, or is it unsalvageable?
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allthemiraculous
ETA: after discussing with a friend, I think the sentimonster!Gorilla idea might work if I more pointedly humanize Gorilla, which incidentally imo wouldn't exactly hurt the "Gorilla is the embodiment of Émilie's protectiveness of her son" thematic bit, and also alter the scene with one of the most prominent original characters so that the said OC is Deaf (though that is a different disability) and therefore using French Sign Language and texting the same as Gorilla needs to. (and then tell anyone who claims implausibility—since the said OC would then be disabled as well as an older brown woman who is demonstrating her competence in a position of authority—to go sit on a cactus.) but I am not at all sure of this.
So I am working on a Miraculous Ladybug novel-length and the reason I have postulated for why Émilie landed in her coma (or possibly dead, this is not canonically clear) is that she overused the Peacock Miraculous (as canon implies) for the purpose of—
( here's the relevant canon stuff and here's the idea I had )
Which means the sentimonster!Gorilla thought implies really loudly that Gorilla does not speak because sentimonsters as a rule do not speak. And the sum of "disabled character" and "not human character" is always nasty.
(I am embarrassed to note I didn't think of any of this till today, even though I had this thought weeks ago, and I only put this together because another ML fan asked my opinion on Gorilla's dialogue in his fic, where he's going the "Gorilla has crap for French syntax and therefore prefers not to speak" route.)
Is there any way to modify this idea to avoid the undesirable implications, do y'all think, or is it unsalvageable?
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allthemiraculousETA: after discussing with a friend, I think the sentimonster!Gorilla idea might work if I more pointedly humanize Gorilla, which incidentally imo wouldn't exactly hurt the "Gorilla is the embodiment of Émilie's protectiveness of her son" thematic bit, and also alter the scene with one of the most prominent original characters so that the said OC is Deaf (though that is a different disability) and therefore using French Sign Language and texting the same as Gorilla needs to. (and then tell anyone who claims implausibility—since the said OC would then be disabled as well as an older brown woman who is demonstrating her competence in a position of authority—to go sit on a cactus.) but I am not at all sure of this.
