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sense8 meme - [6/8] characters > lito rodriguez
“In the end, we will all be judged by the courage of our hearts.”
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The real violence, the violence I realized was unforgivable, is the violence we do to ourselves when we’re too afraid to be who we really are.
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9 Days of Sense8: Day 5 - #WillAppreciationDay ↳Whispers has turned me into a fugitive. He’s got me acting like one and thinking like one. I’m not. I’m a cop. A fugitive runs because he’s alone. A cop knows he’s not.
Summary: He's in love with five people.
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I think one thing I really enjoy about Sense8 is that the first introductions of the characters rely on your brain immediately jumping to the stereotypes and cliches that the characters appear to be fitting directly into. The obvious exception being Nomi, because you have to actually have transwomen appear in media for stereotypes or tropes or cliches to become common or jump immediately into people’s thoughts.
But as for the 7 other sensates (not even touching all the other characters), you’ve got Will, who appears to be your standard “Nice” Guy White Savior Hero type. Riley, who at first glance is every Manic Pixie Dream Girl storyline about to happen. Lito looks to be the Latin Lover combined with any Male Lead movie star trope. Capheus could be written off as the poor kid in the slums of “generic non-specified African country”. Sun is Asian and demur and also does “Martial Arts!”. Kala seems like a stereotypical Bollywood film waiting to happen. And Wolfgang is the stoic badass antihero straight out of an crime action movie.
And the thing is, the characters aren’t necessarily not those things. But Sense8 takes the stereotype, breaks it down and rebuilds it into a living, deep, warm and very human character. It both subverts and uses cliches. The results are wonderful, and you get storytelling with so many layers that even after multiple rewatches you’re still piecing together more details about the characters.