Another thing I fucking love about AAI is that I suspect that when they were making it they were like “if we have Edgeworth talk about how much he thinks about Phoenix it will seem too gay” so their “solution” was for him to never actually say his name, so instead we got all of the “THAT MAN” stuff and honestly it makes it like 500 times gayer.
Lauren Montgomery said in an interview once that the episode where Allura died in 80s Voltron traumatized her when she watched it as a child because she was a strong female character she could look up to, and then rebooted the show, made a Black Princess for little girls to look up to, and then up and killed her off, fully knowing it would be traumatizing to them. that’s not just carelessness on the writers’ part. that is downright purposefully violent and sadistic.
