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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“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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Plagg can't actually remember what it feels like to have a holder who admires rather fears him. It's happened before, he knows, because that's how it was in the beginning. That's how it's meant to be. But literal civilizations have sprouted, blossomed, and withered away in the time since Plagg last got to choose his own Black Cat.
Plagg didn't get to choose this newest holder, either, but it's clear they were made for each other. After all, Marinette Dupain-Cheng is a walking catastrophe.
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people were mean to you, but I always thought you were cool by suzukiblu for beckyh2112
Fandoms: Captain America - All Media Types, Captain America (Movies), X-Men - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, Generation X (Comic)
14 Jun 2020
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“What are your feelings on the mutant threat?!” one of the reporters shouts, and Steve just looks at him.
“I think anyone threatening mutants should be stopped,” he says calmly, and the swarm of reporters explodes, a dozen camera flashes going off at once.
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Just because Sherlock stopped, doesn't mean the Work has to. London is John's city now and he will keep it together with stitching, string, his healing, the food off his table, and sometimes the clothes off his back. John Watson keeps going. He's good at that.
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In the sealed scroll he finds a Bingo Book – his own page marking him as an S-class nukenin with flee-on-sight orders.
“Ok. That is definitely different.”
In his head he blames Naruto – even if his number one unpredictable student had been nowhere near him on this mission. When things go this stupidly impossibly wrong it must somehow be the future Hokage’s fault.
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Gave My All, Did My Best by Triscribe
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars: Rebels, Star Wars: Kanan (Comics)
01 Jan 2025
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Clone Commanders all up and down the hall came awake at the same moment. Some had died in the war. More had lived beyond it.
Bly’s little puddle of vomit didn’t remain alone for long.
Wolffe, of all people, managed to get them moving. He stormed through each hall of sleep tubes, barking at his brothers to straighten up, grab their gear, hurry up and fall in. “You want to save our Jedi? Or sit around crying until the war starts again?”
Swallowing, Bly snagged his personal datapad and joined the growing line.
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- Part 32 of What-If Star Wars AUs
- Part 2 of Can We Start Over?
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Local Tiger Boy absolutely decimates well-made plans that have been in place for years, and he’s not sorry about it. More at eleven.
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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