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(Disclaimer: I’m very sleep deprived, so feel free to correct me if this is a stupid idea. Also, I’m sure someone’s probably said this before, but I’m bored and I can’t go to sleep so I’m gonna say this anyway lol.)

I feel like it would’ve been a more interesting plot addition if Sister Sage from The Boys was revealed to be not actually a supe. Now, I know this is completely out of the picture because of those scenes of her temporarily lobotomizing herself. However, I do like to imagine how it could’ve tied into the story.

Specifically, I feel like it could’ve been the final manifestation of the recurring theme of The Boys about privilege. Characters like Homelander, Deep, etc. were all given these insane advantages at births—advantages that should, in theory, make them automatically superior to every non-supe human. Yet, because of their arrogance, instability, stupidity, or weird complexes, and in spite of their god-like powers, they still often find themselves struggling against non-supe characters like Stan Edgar and the members of The Boys.

Because of this, I feel like it would’ve been cool to see the character arc of Sister Sage, a non-supe, be the epitome of this idea, by having it be revealed that she’s actually just a regular person. Her power is super-intelligence, but not because of some preordained advantage—by her own determination, resourcefulness, and/or desire for vengeance. She could’ve secretly been a lead scientist on that anti-supe virus, all while spying on Homelander as a member of The Seven to gain his trust. Then ultimately, in the finale, we could've maybe seen her somehow using all of the knowledge she’s gathered about him—the way he fights, the extent of his super-hearing/super-vision, when he’s most vulnerable, etc.—to successfully give him the virus and kill him.

Imagine the irony: Homelander, a supe supremacist, meeting his downfall not at the hands of a fellow supe member of The Seven, not at the hands of some suped-up version of one of The Boys, but because for all his genetic superiority, a normal person was able to prey on his human flaws that no amount of bio-engineering could’ve erased.

I mean, I guess that irony is still being kind of achieved with the non-supe members of The Boys, but I feel like it's kinda watered down by the fact that they keep having to either take V or rely on supe-characters like Kimiko, Soldier Boy, Maeve, A-Train, etc. to take on Homelander. It makes sense that they would, and it gives a lot of characters some great redemption arcs, but I think I sort of miss The Boys back when it was just non-temp-V’ed-up Hughie, Butcher, Frenchie, and MM killing supposedly invincible supes through pure creativity.

I remember this being one of my favorite books growing up—but I completely forgot the name 😭 (well duh)

Anyway, it was about this group of fairies (I think the name of the group of fairies was the title of the book) that were like being hunted down by an evil queen, or some sort of evil force, and they ended up fleeing to a glass land (I think it was like a dome made out of glass and once they entered it they were invisible to the people outside who wanted to find them?). I also think that the leader of the fairies was like a blue fairy.

I read it in like the early 2010s, but judging from the drawings (which I remember to be really beautiful, but I’m not sure if that’s just because I was a kid), it looked like it was probably written earlier.

Oh, and I think the name started with like a b or a g, maybe? something like ”The B___s”

I remember this being one of my favorite books growing up—but I completely forgot the name 😭 (well duh)

Anyway, it was about this group of fairies (I think the name of the group of fairies was the title of the book) that were like being hunted down by an evil queen, or some sort of evil force, and they ended up fleeing to a glass land (I think it was like a dome made out of glass and once they entered it they were invisible to the people outside who wanted to find them?). I also think that the leader of the fairies was like a blue fairy.

I read it in like the early 2010s, but judging from the drawings (which I remember to be really beautiful, but I’m not sure if that’s just because I was a kid), it looked like it was probably written earlier.

For context, I am writing a short story for my Spanish class in which a commoner, who at first believes she is talking the gardener of the palace, realizes she is talking to an aristocrat after hearing the “gardener” pronounce/use a word/phrase in a way that only an aristocrat would. Think Tywin and Arya‘s “m’lord” versus “my lord” moment (not sure if this is even historically accurate, but just an example). Please let me know if this is this even realistic. I know next to nothing about this subject.

For context, I am writing a short story for my Spanish class in which a commoner, who at first believes she is talking the gardener of the palace, realizes she is talking to an aristocrat after hearing the “gardener” pronounce/use a word/phrase in a way that only an aristocrat would. Think Tywin and Arya‘s “m’lord” versus “my lord” moment. Please let me know if this is this even realistic.