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I. Want. Tommy. Back. But, I don’t want Tommy x E2 Laurel.
Why?
Because Laurel and E2 Laurel are different people, and would have a totally different dynamic with Tommy. Plus, “you look like my late wife, let’s bang” is totally creeper territory.
I definitely would love to see Tommy in the spin-off, especially if Laurel goes back and forth between 2020 and 2040.
Called by Thea
Felicity screams and leans back in her chair, lifting her feet up into her seat. She spins her chair around and continues working while “screaming” without much energy.
Thea prefers to be as high up as possible, and will consider her brother to be a safe spot.
René dodges to the first thing he can find, probably knocking over Curtis or Roy in the process. He points and laughs at everyone who “dies.”
Curtis is so excited about the prospect of playing The Floor is Lava as an adult that he babbles about how great it is until René tells him he’s dead. He scrambles onto a table or chair and starts arguing with René over if he’s dead.
Dinah lifts herself up onto a desk or table, dangling her legs dangerously close to the “lava,” watching her colleagues with amused looks.
Laurel prefers to be safe with someone else, usually with Thea, and will chase her down no matter where she is safe in the room. This has caused them both to come toppling down from one-person safe spots several times.
Roy is mostly confused, and he’ll “die” dramatically if he can’t get to furniture in the first few seconds.
Diggle either is an exception to the game, or he accepts his death with honor, forming a bridge for other people to walk across or stand on.
Oliver refuses to play until everyone in the room is screaming at him, including Diggle (regardless of if he’s playing). Finally, he’ll roll his eyes and hop up onto a desk or chair and continue like nothing’s going on.
Once, Oliver called the Floor is Lava, leaping up into Diggle’s arms and knocking them both to the ground. Their cries of agony as they melted alive will never be forgotten.
The character you stan has flaws. I promise. Please stop treating them like they don’t. If they didn’t have flaws, they wouldn’t be interesting or worth rooting for.
On a similar note, if your character is a second version of an original character (I’m looking at you, Black Siren), learn to fucking separate iterations of your character. There will be differences and that’s okay. And wanting your new version of the character to wind up just like the original is not truly rooting for that character. If Black Siren’s end goal is to “be like old Laurel,” that is a boring, predetermined outcome. Redemption is one thing, but turning her into someone she isn’t is something entirely different. Stop projecting your love for E-1 Laurel onto E-2 Laurel. They’re not. The same. Person.
And while we’re at it, can we PLEASE STOP blaming characters we don’t stan for the “downfall of the show?” I don’t care if you hate Felicity, René, Laurel, Dinah, Lyla, Diggle, Curtis, Oliver, William, Diaz - it doesn’t matter. One character is incapable of destroying a show as successful as one in the Arrowverse by themselves. This has been a plague in the Arrow fandom (and later on, the Flash fandom) since the beginning, and I’m fucking tired of it. Felicity didn’t ruin the show. Damien Dahrk didn’t ruin the show. The show hasn’t been ruined. If those characters had ruined the show, it would have been canceled long ago.
Get the fuck over your biases. Your bias’s shit smells just as bad as everyone else’s, and has just as much of an opportunity to gunk up the pipes as the next character’s. It’s okay if you like the smell of your bias’s shit more, but at least remember it does smell.
